The phrase "a startling degree of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unexpected or surprising level of something, often emphasizing the intensity or extent of a quality or characteristic.
Example: "The research revealed a startling degree of misinformation circulating on social media platforms."
Alternatives: "an alarming level of" or "a shocking amount of".
Flying ice-pop sticks can wreak a startling degree of havoc (especially on inconvenient pirates).
But O'Reilly's regular-guy act is delivered with a startling degree of arrogance.
In fact, French talks as he writes – eloquently, with absolute mastery of his subject and a startling degree of insight.
Like many authors, Williams wasn't adept at expressing himself outside of his work, but he sometimes evinced a startling degree of tough self-awareness.
With a startling degree of frankness for federal employees discussing their agency, three ATF agents described the failure of Fast and Furious.
Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price.
To a startling degree, the fruits of that effort are apparent in the cases now making their way to the Supreme Court.
But she has brains, energy and a rather startling degree of luck.
Thus the work, also known as De sanitate tuenda ('On the preservation of health'), resonates to a startling degree with ideas today, both on care of the elderly (gerokomica in ancient Greek) and on models of ageing.
Among other things, that may give a scientific explanation for the habit, not formally researched, of snorting the "pink fix" (a mixture of cocaine and chili powder).A chili-eating habit may develop to a startling degree (your author guzzled a packet of nagas while writing this article, and puts Tabasco in his coffee).
Chelsea have been vulnerable on their travels of late but they outclassed Swansea to a startling degree and would not have been flattered by an 8-0 margin – Willian struck the framework of the goal twice with Lukasz Fabianski beaten.
