One of the most recognisable formats in British television – BBC1's Question Time – displayed two startling variations, becoming, in a rare conflation of two elements of the judicial system, both a prison and the dock of a courtroom.
The manufacturer might also subsidise credit terms for retailers who want to offer buy-now-pay-later deals.A.T. Kearney, a firm of management consultants, conducted a study of the relationships between buyers and suppliers in Europe's main consumer-goods sectors and found startling variations in the way goods are bought and sold.
The figures provide evidence of some startling regional variations.
It's pretty insider stuff — like getting under the hood of an old Pontiac — but it's also startling to see how many variations of pixel density a phone or tablet screen can have.
There are 22 tracks, including the Nürburgring in Germany, depicted in startling detail, and more than 100 variations of those tracks.
A series of colorful trills in the final variation becomes softer before the startling return of the stately theme, resigned and unvarnished.
Hallmarks of his style include a startling attention to detail and extraordinarily subtle variations of color and shading.
I noticed, among other things, how variations on the word "hate" recurs with startling frequency, and how each of the four romances depicted is shadowed by moments of betrayal, cruelty, deception — or worse.
You could argue that the play reinforces stock ideas, but what is startling is the form, which suggests the two sisters are experiencing variations on the labyrinthine dreams of Alice in Wonderland.
It was startling on Saturday afternoon to find how vividly his "Brahms-Haydn Variations" reminded me of watching San Francisco Ballet some three decades ago when it brought dances from his version of "The Tempest" to the Edinburgh Festival.
