A startlingly modern voice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The new stories take up the theme of exile, but express it in startlingly different ways. From Wordnik.com. [A life in books: Colm Tóibín] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Leonora] Reference
Deena 9:38 pm: I think that it worked at the time because it was kind of startlingly new. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Favorite Authors « Coyote Con] Reference
Hammond defended the extra £800m as "startlingly" worthwhile on the grounds that it will eventually generate £25bn as the line serves millions more people. From Wordnik.com. [High-speed rail link gets £800m more in state funding] Reference
He said the voting system was "startlingly" decentralised. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Don Fabrizio thought the picture "startlingly" like the original. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
This was a startlingly minimalist version of a rock show. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome Back, Captain Fantastic] Reference
The quality began at a startlingly high level and stayed there. From Wordnik.com. [Why Didion Is Still Great] Reference
France's once fringe National Front is looking startlingly mainstream. From Wordnik.com. [Rise Of The Left] Reference
But it is also a startlingly prophetic play about the equivocal nature of reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Homburg] Reference
The result will be so startlingly beautiful that no further words will be necessary. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Ms. REBECCA TRABER (Reed University): I actually found it startlingly easy to annotate. From Wordnik.com. [The E-Textbook Experiment Turns A Page] Reference
That's one of the refinements on their new record, along with some startlingly sticky melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Collective: The Electronic Turns Organic] Reference
Calderón's reply was startlingly open-minded and encouraging: "It's a fundamental debate," he said. From Wordnik.com. [California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war] Reference
In a uniformly strong cast, another 18-year-old, Shannon Tarbet, makes a startlingly good stage debut. From Wordnik.com. [Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie] Reference
He had laughed and made a startlingly quick transformation from Owen the First to Owen the Second. From Wordnik.com. [Independence Day] Reference
And just because this prediction was startlingly wrong for 2005 doesn't mean it's wrong again for 2006. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of the Dollar] Reference
Dogfighting and cockfighting are startlingly common, as we saw this summer in the case of Michael Vick. From Wordnik.com. [His Fine Feathered Friends, And Ours] Reference
The next day that table looked as if she had been scrubbing it all night -- it was so startlingly clean. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
Yi's sculptures invite viewers to decipher a blurred perception of a startlingly comforting faux reality. From Wordnik.com. [Spotlight On Yi Hwan-Kwon's 2D Action Figures On View In NYC] Reference
No, it's not a sequel to "" Independence Day '' but the completion of two startlingly exotic new museums. From Wordnik.com. [Another Tale Of Two Cities] Reference
Here is the mighty rib cage of a great building, sheltered by a startlingly fine tracery of riveted steel. From Wordnik.com. [Unseen Washington: Photographer David Deal sees the city's hidden side] Reference
The film, which opens in Europe this week, is startlingly prescient and has already won several U.S. awards. From Wordnik.com. [ERROL MORRIS] Reference
His 1995 "The Blue Kite" was a startlingly frank depiction of the Cultural Revolution's tragic impact on one family. From Wordnik.com. [Raise A Red Flag] Reference
He called his results "startlingly successful" so far, but warns that the technique has not yet been tried in humans. From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR ON STROKES] Reference
Nonetheless, the suggestion of another military action under the pretext of terrorism was startlingly out in the open. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Carlsen: Uribe's Parting Shot] Reference
Her thick plaits of hair were really sunburned; her thick eyebrows were startlingly light compared with her complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
Thedirector slides startlingly into his flashbacks, mixing past and present as if erasing the distinction between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Deeds In Texas] Reference
The sensation was startlingly like what I had expected and in the moment all I could do was repeat to myself that this was real. From Wordnik.com. [My Life In Pools] Reference
She turned the leaves in a confusion that increased as her groping vision stumbled continually on lines startlingly sentimental. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
I am captured by the startlingly-large number of mock trial veterans who went on to marry the witnesses whom they directed in competition. From Wordnik.com. [Zac Hill: A Few Notes Upon Witnessing a Bunch of Pretend Lawyers Hoot, Holler, and Collapse Into Tears] Reference
Last week The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg reported Fidel Castro's startlingly honest assessment: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.". From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Tells the Truth in Cuba] Reference
His exposition, I repeat, is startlingly neat, the development of his plots absolutely logical, and the world has acclaimed his ingenuity in dramatic construction. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Writing about Bleckmann and his new album in The Village Voice, jazz critic Francis Davis calls him the most startlingly original male vocalist since Bobby McFerrin. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Theo Bleckmann Dwells In Possibility] Reference
Thomas Eakins 'celebrated "The Gross Clinic" has just been returned to public view on Saturday after a startlingly transformative restoration overseen by Mark Tucker. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Rosenbaum: The Gross Clinic's Startling Restoration: Before-and-After Photos of Eakins' Masterpiece] Reference
The image showed a startlingly new kind of beauty, and was a pivotal moment for fashion, and many of the photographers, stylists and designers who dominate the industry today. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne Day: Pioneer of a new kind of beauty] Reference
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