Sentences with phrase «so startling»

I only found this attack once, but it was so startling it stuck to my eclectic memory.

Its tempting to want to protect Clement Greenberg for sake of friendship and acknowledgement of his brilliance.I would agree with Alan that probably was best expoused in words on a page, altho he could be wicked in the studio, with his intuition and eye.I am more able to understand now his obsession with class, race, antecedents, personal biography and history.Co - incidentally Larry Poons friend T - Bone Burnett just produced a masterpiece which appeared on BBC FOUR on Arena.It was recordings of early American music, blues, cajun and country.What was so startling was the lyrics of dis - possession, poverty, betrayal and the way Pain if being alive was so universal.Despite his portayal as a formalist supporter of Noland and Olitski, Clem never lost his imigrant status.He had Soul in droves

I saw something so startling, it made me pull over, stop, stare, and take pictures.

Just as the Suprematist paintings anticipate most developments in abstract painting throughout the rest of the twentieth century, so these startling medleys of words and images anticipate much of subsequent conceptual art.

«The results of the [DNA] testing have been so startling that the Animal Rescue League is planning to stop making educated guesses about mixes and will instead label all mutts as American shelter dogs.

The external stimuli will not be so startling for your dog.

And so we condescend when we read it, don't quite take it seriously, which may be in part why good flash fiction is constantly so surprising, so startling, so likely to give us our comeuppance.

The film's final shot, so startling in the original film, is just one more major fumble, further cementing the grotesque 2013 version of Carrie as one of the most toothless and terrible films of the year.

In 1995, while he was a graduate student at McGill University in Montreal, the biomedical scientist Peter Friedl saw something so startling it kept him awake for several nights.

The idea that animals can navigate using their own internal compass is so startling it was once dismissed as pure fantasy.

The effect is so startling that many have concurred with Blake's verdict in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (though usually without Blake's irony): «The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it!»

What makes Sabbath observance so startling to me now is that from an economic standpoint, it makes no sense at all.

What is so startling, perhaps overwhelming, about the way that signs and information are brought to us over the Internet and the Web is the sheer volume of them — each demanding our undivided attention.

This man's case introduces the feature of automatisms, which in suggestible subjects have been so startling a feature at revivals since, in Edwards's, Wesley's, and Whitfield's time, these became a regular means of gospel - propagation.

Papandreou's surprise referendum announcement so startled world leaders that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, two architects of the debt deal, summoned Papandreou to Cannes for emergency talks Wednesday.

In fact, the researchers were so startled to see such a blaring signal in the data that they held off on publishing it for more than a year, looking for all possible alternative explanations for the pattern they found.

He was so startled that he actually had to really fight to not lose this testosterone infused contest.

I picked up this chic jumpsuit from my girlfriend and fellow blogger I'm a Norbyah — I was so startled to fit in it because I am literally twice her size, but it works.

When I first turned the key, I heard a sound like grinding gears, but I was so startled that I immediately stopped trying to crank the engine.

The driver was so startled he or she presumed the car's steering was more powerful than it really was, or someone pretty clever has developed an amazing hack and we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

said Elsie the under housemaid, so startled by the unexpected noise that she spilled most of a pan of ash on to the polished marquetry floor.

Sometimes, however, your puppy will be so startled that he's not ready to go potty again when you get to the right spot.

My poor pup was so startled when she ran outside this morning and saw all that white stuff that she turned around and ran straight back into the house.

I was so startled I forgot to ask which song it was.

Not exact matches

«I am startled that this statement was so amateurish and this early,» said Gal.»

So it's startling to learn that Jacob Lew, the Treasury secretary, recently warned Europeans that they had better settle the Greek situation soon, lest there be a destructive «accident.»

And much of the country's so - called war on pollution is centred on coal where the change in direction is just as startling.

If you doubt that, just look at the startling speed with which ho.mose.xuality has gone from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual marriage is now being legalized, and the outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.

I don't remember much of what he said, but I remember my OB laughed so hard I worried she'd drop the scissors as she passed them to Dan to cut the cord, and I remember being the happiest I've ever been when that little boy's body was placed on my chest, all startled and slimy and mine.

I was startled, and frightened, by the tremendous excitement that so few steps could create....

Her eyes are startled blear, And every straining nerve of her is rattled: She'd fought and butchered cows and bucking goats, And hammered out the gristle - knotted flesh (She looked for burns and bruises and the rest), But words so hard from his mouth catch her throat.

The Jewish scholar C.G. Montefiore saw this quite clearly and was startled by it, «The advanced radicalism of these rules or principles is very remarkable», but then proceeded to comfort himself by claiming that Jesus did not live up to them: `... but practically he does not apply them... so far as he is concerned, he holds fast to Judaism and the Old Testament.»

Clinical students, spending hours writing up a pastoral call so that it could be analyzed — and seeing the immense complexities in the person and relationship — were startled by the breezy minister from outside the hospital who rolled in, issued a few exhortations and a prayer, and departed happy that he had done his stint.

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

It would be odd to derive from part of that argument the startling insight so uncharacteristic of Western theology that God does change.

Even so, it is not a little startling to discover that some modern movements which purport to be based upon a new revelation from God have been able in the short space of a decade to claim in excess of a million followers.

On the other hand, the number of Christians who consider themselves members of this group is so remarkably large that it must startle the innocent outsider who, preoccupied with the problems of modern life, is apt to underestimate the number of those who cultivate their Christian traditionalism with a loyalty as curious as it is admirable.

So far as our criterion of dissimilarity is concerned, the former tendency in these traditions will be very important, for it will help us to focus our attention on elements in the teaching of Jesus which were, in fact, new and startling to Jewish ears, and it is for this reason that we called attention to it in the formulation above.

It's so much a part of our daily experience that it can be quite startling to think that it was never meant to be like that.

In any case, it was quite in the relaxed spirit of Richard's invitation that I, oh - so - jauntily, arrived at his office one Monday morning, somewhat startled to see him in an ordinary shirt and necktie» no longer the properly collared Lutheran pastor I had known for all those years.

One of the most startling facts about America is the contrast between our great prosperity as a nation and these islands of misery in our cities, Why, with all our resources, initiative and ingenuity, do we do so little to solve these problems?

Or, on the contrary, may the whole phenomenon of regeneration; even in these startling instantaneous examples, possibly be a strictly natural process, divine in its fruits, of course, but in one case more and in another less so, and neither more nor less divine in its mere causation and mechanism than any other process, high or low, of man's interior life?

So they shout at us and draw large startling figures for us as we speed by.

Sometimes Jesus startled his listeners with a statement so new that they were shocked by it.

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.

This is certainly so in Plainfield, Ill., where elementary school principal Sandy Niemiera made a startling announcement: because of diversity concerns, students will no longer be allowed to celebrate any holidays at all.

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.

Then Constantine got sick of all the debating so he ordered a Bible assembled and a church established, so Christianity became Catholicism — a whole new faith with startling new concepts like the infallibility of the Pope, the trinity, etc..

This was so shocking a concept that I sat there for another hour startled that I was even contemplating such an idea.

I believe he actually stated that they all do, in fact, contain some level of lead, cadmium, or mercury, which startled me (I couldn't get the video to load, so I wasn't able to replay it to know for sure)!