With a 2-8 record and a startling 6.19 ERA, Lincecum is statistically among the worst for starting pitchers in Major League Baseball in 2012.
The scene seemed to sum up in a startling way our era of disruption, of wealth, violence and chaos, where leisure and suffering can cohabit in strange ways, where the news headlines are all about terrorist acts or the drowning of children, but where acts of extraordinary generosity go unnoticed.
Ms. Napoleoni draws a startling comparison with the era of the Crusades against Islamic dominance, arguing that economic imperatives propel the war on terrorism in 2003 as much as they did in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Could a great movie also feature subtle character development, dramatic perspectives on another era, or startling insight into the human condition?
Among the most startling revelations of the DNA era is the prevalence of false confessions by people who are proven unequivocally innocent.
Critics' opinions vary on the relative quality of the magazines of this era; Malcolm Edwards regards Startling as second only to Astounding, but Ashley considers Thrilling Wonder to be Astoundings closest challenger in the late 1940s.
Woods, the greatest golfer of his era, said in a startling public admission that he felt the rules of society did not apply to him.
Whereas the biggest names, Paddle8, Artspace and Artsy, have dragged art auctions and sales into the digital era, Gertrude offers a startling twist on the internet revolution: it leverages technology to offer innovative off-line experiences.
When a migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, the plantation's manager, Caren Gray, discovers startling ties between a Civil War-era mystery and the current murder.
She told me that Hood By Air's startling designs were welcome mutations in an era in which high fashion is controlled by bland international conglomerates.
