Sentence examples for was less startling from inspiring English sources

Rowling's evidence was less startling, but it was delivered in a more harrowed, aggrieved tone.

The Fly weighed half that, yet its lightness was less startling than its balance.

The explanation that followed was less startling than the opening admission.

There, "Berlin" was less startling but no less ambitious or, in the end, touching.

President Roosevelt appointed Marshall Acting Chief of Staff in Craig's place, advancing him over the heads of twenty major generals and fourteen brigadiers who were his seniors, a jump that was less startling than it seemed.

The song would be less startling if Chao sang twice as loud.

Even upon repeated hearings the fugue never fails to shock, although the piano version is less startling than the original.

Recent studies of the original method have found that when centers other than the National Cancer Institute attempted the treatment, the results were less startling.

The livid Medusa tattoo on Chronos's chest is less startling than his small potbelly — a disillusioning trait he shares with a number of the men, though not Lou, who is lean, a little ropy, tanned from occasional surfing.

Inevitably, this book doesn't deliver the body blow that the first did: the subject matter (masculinity, homosexuality and the way the two interact) is less startling, and his unpunctuated, sliding stanzas more familiar.

But, true to the cooler mood of Scandinavian TV, the domestic secrets in The Legacy are less startling, involving infidelities and, as the title indicates, final bequests and requests.