| Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. |
| The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way. |
| It seemed startlingly appropriate, as I had developed pyromania by then as an outlet. |
| Around almost every corner is a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline, startlingly close. |
| On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers. |
| The opening idea of the last movement sounds startlingly like a conflation of the two major allegros from the ballet suite. |
