Sentences with phrase «seems startling»

What he did now seems startling.

It almost seems startling to read the fact that 1 person out of every 100 is a millionaire.

Only 25 per cent claimed to love the enemies of their country and members of dangerous political parties, though in view of prevalent behavior even this seems a startling proportion!

The question may seem startling at first glance.

In some cases, the answers seem startling.

These things might change, I said, and this idea seemed startling to my hearers, who thought it would be the shaking of the foundations.

That may seem a startling statement; but what I am trying to say is that the specific acts that we do are not nearly so significant as the main trend or direction of our whole personality.

«He seemed startled by my sudden presence.

If he seems startled rather than pleased when you get to the ending, tone things down a bit.

Does your child seem startled by the loud noises coming from the toy fire engine?

And now it seems startled to find itself in a disadvantageous position.

During a recent meeting in Amherst, many in attendance seemed startled by the death toll in their town from overdoses of heroin and prescription drugs.

A famous legal case decided in 1990 by the high court of California introduced the public to what seemed a startling notion at the time: Biological material not only can be patented but, like computer chips or other commodities, can be worth tremendous sums.

Downsizing, his new satire about a man (Matt Damon) who joins a community that have shrunk themselves, premiered at Venice to the kind of reviews that seem startling until you remember all the reviews for all the other Payne directed movies.

(He seemed startled when I told him that the Alan Greenspan book he publishes is for sale at that price, since he offered no special discount.)

got back up in a few minutes totally fine but seemed startled.

This adhesion may seem startling at first as one regarded Bollinger as a confirmed member of the geometric Minimalist team, a view predicated on the narrow extrusions which brought Bollinger into prominence around 1966.

To visitors who know SFMOMA's recent collecting history, Robert Rauschenberg will seem a startling omission from «Artists in Focus,» unless they have already seen how much space he takes up in «The Anniversary Show.»

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Nonetheless, the startling high incidence of owners among Gen Y on Facebook seems like a strong data point in support of this generation's deep identification with start - up dreams.

Especially when, as she notes, Gregory of Nyssa and Origen, in works like their «startling and erotically daring commentaries on the Song of Songs,» expressed affinities that seemed to undermine the primacy of Logos?

Now this may seem very startling, even shocking, to many in our religious culture, where there is a long tradition of doubting, or possibly even of being unable to tell, whether or not one is a Christian.

Shepard seemed a bit startled and commented that he had never come across any expression of concern for the animal as subject.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

At first sight that may seem to be a startling assertion.

The more startling the affective experience, the less explicable it seems, the easier it is to make it the carrier of unsubstantiated notions.»

It has startled us in so many ways, and while some of us are quick to make moral and other judgments, I suspect that above all it is something that frustrates and overwhelms because it seems to go on no matter what we say or do, and because of the overpowering and almost inexorable way it has already swept and will continue to sweep over various parts of our lives.

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

He seems like the kind of guy who always happens to be on the other side of a door when you open it, startling you, as he faintly smiles and makes uncomfortably intense eye contact before passing.

He brought back a magnificent set of photographs in which the hawks, down to the smallest feather, to the glint of light on the golden lores, are portrayed with such startling reality that the paper birds seem to be gathering themselves to swoop down out of the frames.

After a few times, she didn't seem to be as startled by the change.

Your baby may startle at the unexpected bark of a dog nearby or seem soothed by the gentle whirring of the clothes dryer or the hum of the vacuum cleaner.

Indeed, most babies seem to prefer sleeping on their bellies, and some may be less likely to startle and wake themselves up — possibly because it feels more secure and cozier snuggling up against the mattress.

Now for that audience, that probably seemed like a bit of a startling statement.

Postpartum recovery seemed to be another topic in addition to the 4th trimester that people don't prepare new parents enough on, which was startling when I learned about them.

He seems to be the lighter sleeper of the two and I have tried separating them for their naps so one doesn't wake the other, but whomever I put in the pack»n' play in our room to nap instead of their crib usually doesn't sleep as soundly and winds up waking early anyways or the other becomes startled (I am guessing) that the other isn't there and instead of going back to sleep, wakes crying.

The narrative seems to have been framed by the startling impact of the accession of Poland and the rest of the A8 countries in 2004 — which saw a tenfold increase of the Polish population in the UK to more than half a million.

Barring some startling shifting of the plates, it seems almost certain that Tim Farron will be giving the leader's speech at the party's Bournemouth conference this autumn.

With the startling revelations in the Wikileaks secret cables, it seems the two main political parties are poised for a tit - for - tat over...

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

Yet all these activities seem humdrum compared with what happened during the Third Intermediate Period, from approximately 1075 to 656 B.C. With startling suddenness, mummification went mainstream.

Being biased to one side would seem like a serious handicap: A toad that hopped to the left whenever it was startled by a predator, for instance, would be easy prey for an attacker that could anticipate which way it would go; the same holds for any other kind of ingrained behavioral imbalance.

That may seem a paltry amount, but in fact such a change is startling.

Dr. Trumble found something startling when he looked into the Tsimane data: Many of those with a copy of the gene seemed to perform better on the cognitive tests.

Weight loss seems to be the hot topic of every women's magazine with each month reporting some new startling discovery and previously unknown weight loss secret.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

I am very fond of talking about myself but do get somewhat startled at the velocity and forcefulness of the line of questioning I sometimes seem to get.

Sometimes the entire landscape here seems composed of colorful plastic trash as far as the eye can see, rendering a sudden glimpse of grass, let alone sheep, startling.

Denis loves to dwell on faces riddled with inner conflict, to cut suddenly to startling close - ups mid-conversation that seem to evoke a mind at work.

There is an uneasiness to [Perry's] performance — in some scenes he looks startled, even frightened — that makes it hard to play off Mr. Lennon, who seems very comfortable as a nervous nelly.

Though grainy, the print is free of dirt and artifacts, but the real problem seems to be the startling contrast between black and white in the film, which the DVD doesn't negotiate well.