The startling result was that one low cost drug- the non steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) ketorolac – was strongly associated with far better four year breast cancer outcome than any of the other three non-NSAID analgesics (sufentanil, clonidine, and ketamine).
Almost as startling as the outcome of the fight is the eerily calm way in which Mr. Rash describes it.
The outcome is startling: The first potato failed to sprout entirely, the second finally grew "wimpy little vines" over a month, and the third had long green shoots after only a week.
Any other outcome would have been startling, since Morrison's novel has inserted itself into the American canon more completely than any of its potential rivals.
Sometimes the fewest can be a lot, but at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.
"What is startling is the gulf between health outcomes for rich and poor, the fact the childhood obesity is continuing to rise and children are getting fatter younger".
The result was startling.
The effect was startling.
