The phrase "achieve the startling" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where one aims to reach surprising or unexpected results, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The researchers worked tirelessly to achieve the startling results that would change the field of medicine."
Alternatives: "attain the surprising" or "reach the astonishing".
Mr. Sante never again achieves the startling quality of his dream deconstruction, in which pretty much his entire story is already embedded.
Modern casting techniques mean that you can achieve the most startling realism, with microscopic detail down to the last pore, pimple and scar.
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?
The Court's decision achieves the novel and startling result of making the scope of search without warrant broader than an authorized search.
It is all the same story, and surely to Reni's credit that he achieved this startling effect, not just with one, but with two of his Sebastians.
Jon Wiederhorn of Rolling Stone called the album "liberating and enlightening, the songs achieve a startling, staggering and palpable impact".
(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).
The company's new ad manages to achieve a startling level of tone-deafness by casting Jenner — yes, Kim Kardashian West's younger sister — as a high-fashion model who bravely whips off her blond wig to join a throng of protesters and ultimately bridge the divide with white male police.
The episode is typical of the dramatic reversals experienced by the LSO in its first century, as it has battled competition, poverty, inept bureaucracy and good old-fashioned self-destructiveness to achieve some startling artistic highs.
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.
