The new stories take up the theme of exile, but express it in startlingly different ways. ❋ Susanna Rustin (2010)
Millicent's distant voice, fresh and strong and pure in the night, chanted the word startlingly to the first notes of a phrase from the Jewel Song. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
While it’s the director’s and actors’ jobs to realize what’s on the page, great screenwriters deliver a vision that illustrates everything — from plot to characterization — in startlingly few words. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hammond defended the extra £800m as "startlingly" worthwhile on the grounds that it will eventually generate £25bn as the line serves millions more people. ❋ Nicholas Watt (2010)
Deena 9:38 pm: I think that it worked at the time because it was kind of startlingly new. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Don Fabrizio thought the picture "startlingly" like the original. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
On top of all of that, she's having the kind of startlingly realistic sex fantasies about Franklin that one gets after ingesting a vampire's blood, like we've seen with Sookie and Lafayette. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He said the voting system was "startlingly" decentralised. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When a startlingly beautiful girl strews compliments you believe her. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)
That made up title came startlingly close to the real name of one of my family members. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was startlingly casual and, in the end, highly unsettling. ❋ Unknown (2011)
That he had died loving her, loving her very personally, his eyes startlingly blue and penetrating, was beyond doubt. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)
Telling the simultaneous (and startlingly parallel) stories ofthe legendary architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and one of the nineteenth century's most nefarious serial killers, this thrilling and meticulously researched book is as suspenseful as any fictive whodunit. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His answer sounds startlingly unscientific, even spiritual: to impress the soul. ❋ Matt Ridley (2011)
During the interval a startlingly attractive man introduced to me as Johnny joined us in our box I found out later from Teddy that this is the infamous Lord Johnny Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)
It cannot be put out by any means except dousing with fresh milk, and there are many stories (rather startlingly like urban myths in their repetition and style) of intelligent chamber-maids putting out the candle and waking the house when the thieves were busy. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)
Nor did it help that he published a startlingly candid sexual memoir, Liber Amoris, which a reviewer of the time attacked as a “precious record of vulgarity and nastiness” that revealed the author “in all the nakedness of his conceit, selfishness, slavering sensuality, filthy profligacy and howling idiotcy.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
