Sentence examples for to startling effect from inspiring English sources

Brion brings out West's unerring pop sensibility to startling effect.

He brought Turner into the 21st century to startling effect.

Virtually every production now updates the play, sometimes to startling effect.

He deploys all of these to startling effect in this short book.

Frolicking reindeer, bobble-hatted snowmen, enormous Christmas trees adorn dozens of buildings, sometimes to startling effect.

The notable exception has been 2008's JCVD, a claustrophobic heist thriller in which he plays himself to startling effect.

Nowhere do terror and tenderness mix to more startling effect than in "Under the Sand" (2000), still the best film from the French director François Ozon.

Although it had peers in bands like Television and the early Talking Heads, no group blended noise and lyricism to such startling effect.

The basic ingredients (Daniel's raw, John Lennonish voice, punk-pop guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) are shuffled to such startling effect that fans claim Daniel has never written a bad song.

Nearby, the same painter has daubed a myriad of dots and blobs, as if recounting a bout of chicken pox; the British artist Damien Hirst once employed a similar technique, on canvas, to much less startling effect.

But it seems to have had a startling effect on her ability to cope with it.