It's both startling and liberating to watch.
The cover shot for Animals (1977), depicting a pig flying over Battersea power station, was both startling and comic.
After looking at photos of other people's snow-covered streets on Twitter and Instagram all day, it is both startling and rather comforting to venture outside.
With a handsome driveway lined by sizeable date palms, and organically curved whitewashed architecture, Quinta's appearance is both startling and seductive.
As the marathon Mad May benefit party season draws to a close, it is both startling and delightful to see whimsical headdresses and hats worn with long evening dresses.
Sometimes the fewest can be a lot, but at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.
The climactic revelations, concerning which parent did what to which child, are both startling and unsurprising, and you sense that an alternative set of horrors would have made no difference.
For someone like me who lived through the demonstrations and bombings of 1963 in this same city, and heard white leaders vow that the status quo would never change, it was both startling and heartening.
These could never be broadcast, but in shedding light on Frost's attitudes to women after the traumatic death of his estranged wife they are both startling and instructive.
