Greer's instincts vote, in the end, for the unmagical and enduring, for the brightness of — to give away the novel's last two words — "startling day".
Neighbors who did not evacuate the area described a startling scene Sunday morning.
The head of the North Carolina Department of Transportation made a startling plea Saturday afternoon, asking travelers from the north and south to avoid the state entirely.
In a startling talk Thursday evening, a vice president who oversees the internal engineering of Amazon's global computing system described how Amazon is building its own specialized computers, data storage systems, networking systems, even power substations and optical transmissions systems.
A workman clearing brush along a Texas interstate made a startling discovery Friday, when he found a human skull discarded near the roadside.
In the now much richer countries, such as Norway, the average person earns fully forty-five timoremore than in 1800, a startling $137 a day, or $120 a day for the average person in the United States, or $90 in Japan.
So it was startling Wednesday when the Motion Picture Association of America said overseas ticket sales had zero growth last year as increases in countries like Brazil and Japan could not offset steep declines elsewhere.
So when Sacconaghi wrote something pretty startling Monday: that Apple could sell 50 million iPhones in 2011 up from precisely squat in 2006 it means that Steve Jobs and company are going to sell 50 million iPhones sometime real soon.
Eric Swanson received a startling call last Thursday from his wife, Shana D. Madoff, who said that something was terribly wrong.
Fed up and rueful, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, made a startling admission on Thursday: he should have reined in the filibuster rule last year, when he had a chance.
The normally demure pop-jazz singer Karen Oberlin made a startling entrance on Thursday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, where she is performing her feisty new show, "I'll Be Hard to Handle: Songs of Daring Dames".
