Suddenly, a loud blast went off, startling his guests.
SINCE 1999, Macedonia has played host to a startling variety of guests for a small and struggling country.
When we caught up with Babe, we paused to stare at the immense Standard Hotel, which bestrides the High Line on Washington Street and whose white curtains occasionally part to reveal a startling punctuation mark of guest-room nudity.
But the terrorist did" — throw us off course, as without further ceremony, we are plunged, like the unsuspecting guests, into a startling, near-surreal hostage situation.
By sheer force of conversation, Maron's guests typically open up, revealing the startling, desperate, and sometimes inspiring existence of the modern clown.
Scott Adams, creator of the satirical comic strip "Dilbert" and a self-described trained hypnotist, gave the nation a startling new perspective on the presidential candidates while a guest on Bill Maher's show last Friday night.
A guest list of 4,000 to 5,000 is not startling at all; a wedding for the family that owns the Orra jewelry group, India's largest diamond jewelry retail chain, reportedly had 12,000 attendees.
Jesus, Barton explained, was not only "the most popular dinner guest in Jerusalem", and "an outdoor man", but a "startling example of executive success".
In "The Guest," such a seemingly innocuous setup sets off a startling chain of events that involves much mayhem, a top-secret military program and a finale set amid an elaborate high school Halloween haunted-house maze.
The album revives Baobab's old rumba style, makes a trans-Atlantic connection with a guest vocal by Ibrahim Ferrer from Cuba, and also tosses in a little ska, reggae and mbalax, with some quietly startling guitar solos by Barthélémy Attisso.
