Wholeness and brokenness intertwine in the book; glimpsed patterns and startling disjunctions drive its explorations.
She had a startling energy driven by a curiosity that was evidently a factor in her longevity.
It is a genuinely startling show, driven by timely ideas about wealth inequality, corporate evil and the 1%, with echoes of Anonymous and the Occupy movement, as well as elements of magic realism; you never quite know what is real and what is delusion.
For Russia, this was a year of a startling economic rebound, driven in part by soaring oil prices and the after-effects of a currency devaluation.
China's startling growth has been driven so far by exports and abundant spending on roads, dams and other infrastructure projects, a trend that experts say cannot be sustained in the long term.
The drive offers a startling mix of old-growth forests, estuaries, lakes, river gorges, peaks and an ocean edge whose sometimes jagged contours give way abruptly to scalloped bays with beaches curving out of sight.
Thornton's writing is charming and earthy, and he's not above using some startling and funny stories to drive home his point that Lent is as down-to-earth as it is holy.
Mr. Dimon's race to cut a deal for Bear began around 6 p.m. last Thursday, when Alan D. Schwartz, Bear's chief executive, called with startling news: Bear had been driven to the brink of bankruptcy by what amounted to a bank run.
I remember startling my neighbor when I'd driven up our shared driveway in electric mode -- silently.
The endowment drive's success proved startling, es pecially to certain other orchestral boards that were struggling to keep afloat by raising relatively modest an nual maintenance funds.
