Sentence examples for would be startling from inspiring English sources

If you were to ask about the "assorted sorbets" at Lespinasse, the response would be startling.

Free-roaming concerts of this kind would be startling at most orchestras; at the Philharmonic, they are almost routine.

You had yours, let us have ours!".Were Mr Suthep's revolution to regain its strength and to triumph, against the odds, it would be startling.

"I would think any time any normal person or any investigator enters a room with children being restrained it would be startling to them," Sergeant O'Quinn said.

A bald denunciation of the Florida Supreme Court, which would be startling, could stall the contest lawsuit, but that would be more for symbolic reasons, some experts say.

If the Mets, who will play the Yankees in the World Series beginning Saturday night, were placed against the Mets, who played the Yankees in their first interleague series in 1997, the image would be startling.

It would normally be startling, to say the least, to hear these words loudly verbalized by an audience member in the middle of an evening at the theater.

In and of itself, the fact that each defendant minimized his own involvement would not be startling or necessarily significant; defendants certainly lie, even when confessing.

Even if it were presented as fiction, it would still be startling, but had the film-makers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman pitched it that way to a hard-faced Hollywood executive, he might have sunk it just by wondering about the absence of Skype.

If you could tickle yourself, you'd constantly be startling yourself".

This would be a startling change anywhere.