But everything comes strikingly alive whenever the show turns to music.
The $78.2 million came strikingly close to the $81.4 million at Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern art a week ago -- a fact that, Mr. Meyer pointed out, "tells us more about the market than anything else".
And they came, strikingly, in the middle of the night, as a waning moon rose over the Capitol, its stark white dome looking like a sugar confection against the darkened sky.
Sure, that madness happens to those "weaker girls," but Serena Joy comes strikingly close to admitting the horror of it all.
The transformations come most strikingly through digital effects: bodies or whole scenes twisted and stretched and squeezed and then returned to "normal".
Even granting all that and the overall familiarity of the subject, the tense, surreal qualities of life at Guantánamo come through strikingly.
Everything came together strikingly on the set closer, "Stillwell," named after the terminal subway station at Coney Island.
Using a compact orchestra and a small chorus, Mr. McCreesh gave a shapely reading in which fine details came through strikingly.
For me, it came most strikingly when, as editor of i's sister paper, The Independent, we changed the size of the paper from broadsheet to compact.
Kraemer's thesis was supported in 2013 by a report published in Pediatrics, which came to strikingly similar conclusions, based on new statistics.
