"Grab a wet washcloth, would you?" I repeat the word all the way to the bathroom, then flick on the light, startling myself by my reflection.
A mildly startling decision, perhaps, but a reflection of a kind of resilience that is often overlooked.
They have also managed to sit in on a dinner party with Uday and Qusay Hussein, the president's odious sons, and piece together the life-style of his inner circle with fascinating detail.That the revelations in these books should seem so startling is its own unhappy reflection on how little western officialdom now knows or cares to know about Iraq.
Its startling diversity offers an accurate reflection of Romanticism's essential unruliness, and its careful tracings of the traffic in art, artists and ideas between Paris and London gives the British overdue credit for crucial influence on the French Romantics, especially Géricault and Delacroix.
Though it seems obvious, the findings of a new poll on the former senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards are still startling if only for the reflection of how far he has fallen in the world of public opinion.
Yet on further reflection, it's startling to think that the racist man who so cowardly heckled my mom with impunity probably has many of the same concerns as her: Staggering income inequality, stagnant wages, outsourced jobs, never-ending wars, and failing schools and healthcare systems.
On reflection, these figures are not as startling as they seem.
Nelson's reflections on gender, family and art offer startling insights and an iconoclastic rethinking of what criticism can look like.
It is startling, too, at least in the first half of "Life Class," to see our genteel reflection in the mirrors of the Café Royal, table-hopping with these same people, and hobnobbing with "Gus" — Augustus John, the painter.
It is startling, too, at least in the first half of "Life Class," to see our genteel reflection in the mirrors of the Café Royal, table-hopping with these same people, and hobnobbing with "Gus"—Augustus John, the painter.
