Her team had been bold, so bold that along with Dimon, she had become the public face attached to a $6 billion mistake, a trading loss so startling in size that it dominated the business press, put Dimon on the defensive and cost Drew her job.
Obviously, some caveats, before we start: the blindness reported in this journal is temporary, i.e. up to but not exceeding 15 minutes; it was only reported by two women, aged 22 and 40, so hardly a startling sample size; they were both looking at their phones in a darkened room; they were both looking at their phones through one eye.
A typical issue might feature scholarly articles on such arcane exotica as neolithic Scythian belt buckles and Neapolitan Christmas cribs alongside startling page-size images of big toes, skyscrapers and the view down the human throat.
Making up the biggest of all the plant families, with more than 26,000 species, they have an exotic, voluptuous loveliness composed of startling shapes and sizes and stunning colours, which makes them the most desirable of all blooms.
By now Watson stood at 6ft 6in, with broad shoulders and explosive strength, yet also startling speed for his size.
The donations are also startling because of their size: several donors initially wrote checks of $9,200, exceeding the $2,300 limit for an individual gift.
In startling contrast, the life-size portrait of the same sitter done in oils in 1879 is in the neutral naturalistic style that Manet often practiced from the 1860s for commissions from the establishment.
He squeezed himself into a closet-size break room, startling three employees between bites of hamburgers.
First off, the Core shows off a startling amount of power for its size.
And the result over the past decade has been a startling increase in the number and size of hot-burning wildfires.
