Sentence examples for was slightly startling from inspiring English sources

After weeks of hearing every M.M.A. analyst explain why Rousey would win, it was slightly startling, once the fight began, to be reminded that its outcome hadn't actually been determined yet.

It has been a cakewalk for the most part and it must have been slightly startling for Hodgson that Switzerland, their only opponent of real note, often passed the ball with greater distinction.

While it is slightly startling to hear that Wuthering Heights is to receive a Bollywood treatment in a theatre production by Tamasha, it is a genuine eye-popper to hear from artistic director Kristine Landon-Smith that it's going to have a "moody, Chekhovian feel".

"It's not something we see on screen with women as often, so the images are slightly more startling," Swanberg said.

While it's unsurprising that most people in Britain can't remember where the Falklands are, it's slightly more startling that no Argentinians actually gives a shit about that war either.

While it's not precisely what the world might look like in a quantum vision, the work is a slightly startling project that forces the viewer to decipher what's real and what's imagined, effortlessly urging us to reconsider the anatomy of a second.

Just how popular is sometimes slightly startling.

"It was the right word and the slightly startling nature of it was really what you needed," Mr. Sorkin said.

If the former's fitness record and wage demands understandably deterred several managers, it still seems slightly startling that Stoke were Owen's sole serious suitors.

The statue, of a sleepwalking man in his underwear, is indeed startling and slightly creepy.

Then there are the startling and slightly maudlin images of Prince's hieroglyphic guitar, and Michael Jackson's embellished white dance shoe, which the singer wore during a concert tour.