Sentence examples for that startling from inspiring English sources

But on some grounds, the deal shouldn't have been all that startling.

There's nothing new here; there's nothing all that startling; and there certainly isn't anything to argue with.

They said that if the briefers had mentioned anything that startling, it would have gotten their attention".

Cabrera followed up that startling accomplishment with another strong season at the plate despite struggling to stay healthy.

If only because he had just watched that startling contrast play out in 24 decisive minutes, he was referring in that latter critique to the isolation-addicted Knicks.

It's not actually that startling a departure, just a new way of saying: "I am a singer in my 40s; I can do nuanced music for grownups".

For me, the result was that startling shifts in the music -- an unexpected change of harmony, a mercurial melodic twist -- passed by almost unnoticed.

The idea that humankind has gone to extraordinary effort and expense to construct a black-hole-making machine shouldn't be all that startling.

But it is a pedigree sense of menace now, that startling natural flexibility married to a splay-footed sprint to the wicket, and a sense from the opening overs at the SCG of a thrillingly theatrical spectacle in play.

"Numero neuf," roared the stadium announcer, of the Colombian for whom Monaco paid Atlético Madrid that startling €60m this summer: "RA-DA-MEL FALCAO!" To say the crowd went wild would be exaggerating just a little.

I must have been distracted because I've not clocked that startling image of hope in all the words devoted to whether a "surge" in American troops and shift in their strategy brought decisive change over the past year.