Sentence examples for which was startling from inspiring English sources

They were being handled by volunteers, just regular people, which was startling to see.

"It's almost like where I grew up," she said, which was startling, because her husband, the senator and Presidential candidate John Kerry, had just told the crowd that she grew up in Mozambique.

I watch the exchange in dismay, taken aback by both Emmett's words and his tone, which is startling stern.

Which is startling since they've barely changed, suggesting the noughties are indeed back (something we hinted at last year).

Which is startling, considering more than 90 percent of American households own a car while little more than a third of American households contain a gun.

That leaves Bowyer as the spoiler, which is startling considering he was the last driver to qualify for the Chase (12th).

Roché's guileless prose lends the quality of a parable to his story, which is startling in its erotic candour and its visionary pursuit of love.

It was the fourth consecutive championship in which the Irish and British boxers managed to win gold, which is startling compared to the lack of success in the past 50 years.

To observers, the 2010 number represents both a comeback (firms raised nearly $1 billion less in the same period last year) and a right-sizing (the companies raised more than $14 billion in the first half of 2008, which is startling given the downward slide on Wall Street and in the economy as a whole later that year).

She says it's been an easy fit, "which is startling because he's from a different culture and a different generation".

The office of the interior secretary also had no comment to CNN, which is startling itself, considering the strong language of the secretary's own daughter about his boss.