The army Washington fielded had innovative artillery, moved with startling speed, and even, in one of the first recorded instances, synchronized its watches.
The bill moved with startling speed; introduced three days earlier, it sailed through both houses after leaders struck deals to vote without debate.
The platinum coin discussion has moved with startling speed, from an idea nobody took seriously (and which, as I've mentioned, senior officials were unaware of just last month), to assertions that it's ridiculous and illegal, to grudging acknowledgment that it's almost surely legal coupled with strained attempts to dismiss it as an option nonetheless.
The cutting is quick; the camera moves around with startling intensity.
"He moved with quite startling speed and intelligence — an instinctive reaction almost — to trouble spots," said the New Zealand captain Colin Meads, who thought that Davies was one of the two players who contributed most to his team's defeat.
That's why Lou Lamoriello, the Devils' president, tried to wake up the team with startling moves that never really worked out.
The reading unfolded with startling efficiency, moving briskly through a cycle of aural imagery, from warm-hued suppleness to mechanistic precision, mysteriousness and sparkling fragility.
The Knicks' front office concluded a bizarre and unsettling preseason yesterday with a move so startling that even its chief beneficiary was surprised.
The Angels moved into first place in the American League West with startling authority and surprising ease.
(Verizon Communications owns a 55% stake; Vodafone, a U.K. wireless company and the largest in the industry, owns 45%.) That Verizon père went along with the move was a startling admission of Strigl's clout.
