Sentence examples for was more startling from inspiring English sources

My dad's reaction to the Branca book was more startling.

To Professor Tendler, who was much bigger than Shimmy, the attack was more startling than threatening.

When Silvio smacked her around, it was more startling to the viewer than to any of the characters.

The initial thought in my 7-year-old mind: "I have a choice?" But my second thought was more startling: "No".

It was more startling, in its way, than the pro-gay-marriage ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, three weeks earlier.

In both cases, what was more startling than the reporters' pathology was the degree to which so many warnings of disaster were ignored by so many editors of experience, including the papers' top leadership.

Other choices were more startling.

What's more startling is the monument's frankness.

It's hard to say which is more startling.

Ed Westwick's evening plans might have been more startling.

The gap in sales is more startling considering that smartphones are hand-held computers.