It also achieves a startling final payoff when Fielding's Portia confronts the reality behind the make-believe; which is that Bassanio is more truly in love with Scott Handy's seductively melancholic Antonio than he is with her.
DID D-Wave Systems achieve the incredible — a startling advance in computing that would radically expand human capacities for industrial activity and scientific discovery, long before experts believed it possible?
Though he kept it secret, he used photography extensively to achieve the startling realism that his audiences and critics found so remarkable.
Furthermore, Radszuweit's determination to project a well-behaved, middle-class image anticipated the strategy that has allowed the H.R.C. and other organizations to achieve startling victories in recent years.
Second, these technologies have empowered do-it-yourself innovators to achieve startling advances — in vehicle engineering, medical care and even synthetic biology — with scant resources and little manpower, so we can stop depending on big corporations or national laboratories.
Modern casting techniques mean that you can achieve the most startling realism, with microscopic detail down to the last pore, pimple and scar.
(I've tried this before in my fiction and know that if you play it right, you can achieve startling effects via the juxtaposition of the flatness of the prose with what's lurking in the action).
Nevertheless, he spent a year on a Knox Fellowship studying at the Ruskin School (see A Madman), before settling in New York to fulfil a long-held ambition – achieved with startling ease – of joining the staff of the New Yorker (Toward Evening, Snowing in Greenwich Village).
She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Herbert Sulzbach, who fought for the Kaiser in the first world war, fled to London after the Nazis confiscated his Berlin paper mill, was interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien in 1938, and later achieved startling success as a British army sergeant charged with the de-nazification of captured German soldiers and SS officers.
