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How To Use startlingly In A Sentence

• 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. Leonora
• This quote startlingly original novel unquote is both boring and badly written.
• Johann Kattus, Alte Reserve, Brut is a startlingly dry Viennese sparkling wine with a very fine persistent mousse.
• Declan, a young Irishman, noticeable for his startlingly burnished red hair, on the run from the law, and Lin, one of a small Chinese party searching for gold, are pitchforked into a macrocosm of greed, discomfort and ruthlessness.
• It was a startlingly original format, combining the popular docusoap and game show genres with the voyeuristic qualities of the webcam and closed-circuit television.
• All three productions have fine conductors who match the theatrical vibe the directors have created -- Istvan Kertesz a model of balance and appropriate tempos in "Zauberflöte," Zubin Mehta keeping things moving in "Entführung" but knowing when to let a phrase hang in the air to underscore Strehler's elegant compositions, and a startlingly young-looking Lorin Maazel lending "Figaro" an airy speed and litheness not out-of-keeping with current notions of how this score should go. New DVDs let you savor 1960s Salzburg Festival productions of Mozart operas
• Barely surviving the harsh climate of North Dakota plains is the sole silver-lining to the creepy yet unnervingly romantic, starkly humorous, and startlingly composed drama Prairie Love. Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2011 and the Sound of My Generation: Part I
• 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. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from the screenwriters
• It is a startlingly brutal place where boiling geysers burst through mountain plains caked in salt, and jagged red rocks give way to massive sand dunes and desolate open salt flats.
• Wickersham Land Torpedo (1917) - Another ill-fated warbot, this one was startlingly close in looks to the PackBots of today, with its two tank treads. Gizmodo