Significats de first startling en anglès

That is the first startling circumstance on which we base our argument.

In this there occurs the first startling reference to Mrs. Tenbruggen, by name.

But, the first startling over men began to treat the writer as he deserved.

The first startling allegation claims that chilli powder was rubbed on the toddler's genitals.

For England, the effects of this domination of the manufacturing capitalists were at first startling.

When she was twenty-five years old the first startling event of her life took place.

And his first startling question was this:

Her first startling successes were due to the fact that the Maltsor risings had largely cleared the way for her.

Being a woman of a high courage, she soon got over the first startling effect of what I had to communicate.

Laurence could only stare; the idea that Celeritas had deliberately promoted the rivalry to encourage Temeraire was first startling, then almost offensive.

A silence that was at first startling by contrast to the preceding din prevailed as soon as the screen was in place.

We knew, to start with, that science and imbecility are continuous; nevertheless so many expressions of the merging-point are at first startling.

The first startling sign of this gradual change was the publication in "Lippincott's Magazine" of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16.

The lull in the excitement which had followed the first startling announcement of invasion was broken by the wildest rumors and the sternest facts.

I had found the spell of the picture in an absolute life-likeliness of expression, which, at first startling, finally confounded, subdued, and appalled me.