There are two works dated 1914-17, buthehe distinct outlines and startling blue background of "Water Lilies," on loan from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, seem only tangentially related to the blurred edges and pale tones of the privately owned "Water Lilies With Reflections of Tall Grass".
Even its cover was startling — a bright-yellow background dotted with cartoon flowers and a peace sign, three slightly nerdy guys looking skeptically at the camera, heads together and bodies angled out, like petals.
It will also stop annoying auto-playing videos from starting in the background and startling me.
A speech by Aliyev's son reveals startling details about the background to the signing of the ACG contract.
Sound levels of both the startling stimulus and the background noise were selected for each individual GP prior to baseline behavioural data collection, to determine the appropriate combination of sound levels for optimal gap detection (Berger et al., 2013).
The manager, JP Villa, had filled me in on the remarkable background of this startling new restaurant, first telling me that it was 3,000 years ago that the Chinese invented chopsticks and it was 2,000 years ago that Sichuan cuisine was established.
Kara Walker, 45, has gained critical acclaim for her large-scale silhouettes, which set startling black images against white backgrounds, warping the Southern portrait tradition.
Barr's ambition, and hubris, is all the more startling given that he has no background in education.
A startling video outfitted with hair-raising background music reveals that asteroid impacts are much more common than we thought, Wired UK reports.
PPI ratio reflects the inhibition of startle response by a preceding non-startling sound of similar intensity as the background sound used in gap detection.
