Sentence examples for while startling from inspiring English sources

The disclosure, while startling, followed admissions by Favor Hamilton in recent years that her stellar running career and her personal life had sometimes been troubled.

Figures from Britain this week showed that firms had pushed up their output prices by 7.5% over the previous year but this rise, while startling enough, was nowhere near sufficient to compensate them for a 23.3% gain in raw-materials prices, the biggest since 1980.It will be even more difficult to maintain profit margins when consumers are under pressure.

That possibility, while startling, lends credence to other studies showing that assiduously sticking to a diet rich in fish oils, another heart-healthful fat, doesn't necessarily protect people from heart attacks or strokes; and that those who carry extra pounds, even to the point of being slightly obese, may live longer than people who weigh less.

On which topic this is the first Twitter Olympics and, reading the tweets during the ceremony, I felt terribly out of step, finding Danny Boyle's production, while startling in places, muddled and over-long and often irrelevant to a worldwide audience.

First of all, WS individuals' language, while startling in contrast with their level of mental retardation, is not normal; indeed, as we have seen, it is indistinguishable on some tests from that of language impaired individuals.

While hardly startling territory for a singer-songwriter, the juxtaposition of Dan's wavering delivery with stirring dance rhythms functions as a kind of emotional double whammy.

The genteel saxophone exchanges imitate the genuine saxophone duels popular at the time, while the startling ascending coda by the brasses suggests an inversion of the legendary Louis Armstrong cadenza that opens "West End Blues".

"This fabulously enjoyable read will keep you entertained and rooting for the protagonist until the very end, while delivering startling truths about cricket and about Sri Lanka," said chair Margaret Busby.

A smaller study of 236 US college students conducted in 2010 found 74percentt of men and 46percentt of women questioned were unable to identify the cervix, while a startling 80percentt of men and 62percentt of women in the study were unable to locate the vagina correctly.

The background noise was presented at 55, 60 or 70 dB SPL, while the startling stimulus was presented at 95, 100 or 105 dB SPL.

One track - The Road To Peace - did stand out as genuinely startling, while a couple of others were reasonably listenable.