This startling point, coming at the end of a penetrating analysis of several layers of the choreographic skill involved, is far more interesting than most full-out rave reviews: it perfectly demonstrates that serious criticism must start from, and return to, honesty.
She made the still startling point that, on richer blocks, a whole class of eyes had to be hired to play the role that, on Hudson Street, locals played for nothing: "A network of doormen and superintendents, of delivery boys and nursemaids, a form of hired neighborhood, keeps residential Park Avenue supplied with eyes".
Recent discoveries in quantum physics support this startling point of view with new understandings about the thought-reactive nature of atomic structure.
Italy recorded the steepest drops, a startling 126 points below the midpoint in physics and 78 points in advanced math by the end of high school.
It chimes with the fact that Jones, who turned 56 on Saturday, has achieved spectacular highs and some startling low points.
In all but his first novel, "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo," the books return to the same characters from startling vantage points; Orner is writing in spirals, moving restlessly out to embody imagined characters, but always returning to the Chicago and Fall River, Mass., family of his most frequent first-person narrator, a young man who is roughly his age.
In such passages, Holst transcends his romantic heritage and creates startling textures, pointing towards his later achievements in the Planets.
Mr. Adams offered all the repetitive energy that propelled Philip Glass's and Steve Reich's most popular scores, but his quicker harmonic development, sudden dynamic changes and other startling touches pointed toward the next step — emotional and dramatic — that this style needed to take.
Patrizia Caraveo at the Istituto di Fisica Cosmica in Milan, Italy, and several collaborators claim to have found something startling: The point source was moving across the sky.
Ginsburg concisely labels Alito's ruling one of "startling breadth," pointing out all the doors it opens to religious claims by business owners trumping the rights of their employees.
