Similar words: jostling, start, unsettling, start off, start on, start up, starter, staring. Meaning: ['stɑrtlɪŋ /'stɑːt-] adj. so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm.
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61 Despite his empathy, the contrast between young men in earrings to the plain-talking, Midwestern senator was startling.
62 But it isn't just his translation from rebel into loyalist which is startling, it is also his physical change.
63 It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.
64 Inspection of the comparative figures is both instructive and startling.
65 She had no make-up on and looked tired, but her eyes were still startling in their beauty.
66 These clouds took on startling devilish shapes, progressing towards us.
67 It's just a bit difficult to get used to the startling contrast, that's all ... Hey!
68 O'Connor's omission from the Wigan team beaten in Cup football at Hull, last season, was both startling and crucial.
69 Seeking vengeance, he employs two Dickensian thugs, with startling and bleakly hilarious results.
70 His best effort, ordered and systematized, seen through the prism of her own startling intellect.
71 Collymore use the fish to push me down, the child thought, arriving at a startling but logical conclusion.
72 In 1956, the contrast from conduct at all previous conventions was startling.
73 An even more startling species to arrive in numbers to Shetland is the great spotted woodpecker.
74 In perhaps his most startling and disturbing model, Thompson created two scenarios.
75 The history of how humans learned to love zero involves startling shifts in metaphysics, mathematics and science.
76 Having seen his ally overwhelmed in this startling fashion, Count Vulgrin decided that discretion was the better part of valour.
77 But Maria's presence actually begs a question since it's the sole moment when a startling presence swoops out of the mix.
78 Monolithic notions of sanctity reveal a startling reliance on hierarchical thinking.
79 It was a rigmarole, a muddled torrent of words, not easy to follow and yet startling.
80 But the most startling fact revealed in the survey even had an element of quixotic honour attached to it.
81 Attached to one side was an enormous circular blade; a startling silver against the gloom.
82 Similarly a private meeting with a person's current boss can produce startling revelations!
83 Either way, when seen through an electron microscope,(Sentencedict) the result is often one of startling and beautiful variety in miniature.
84 It is often startling how people's faces soften and their bodies relax after crying.
85 One of those youngsters was Horton, and he would later expose another crop of dreamers to that startling sense of revelation.
86 It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions.
87 Startling the commuter is a game in which it is best to think so.
88 The programme documents startling new theories about the way the universe began.
89 The most startling and lyrical passage is the description of how Dolores was burnt as a baby.
90 Since then, it has made a number of startling errors of judgment.
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