Observing these startling contrasts between wealth and poverty, Ilyich would mutter in English through clenched teeth: 'Two nations!'" John Seabrook Lyme Regis.
Is this the man who can pacify a country with simultaneous on-again-off-again rebellions in the north and south, startling disparities in wealth, a shaky Constitution holding together the biggest population in Africa and 36 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, but electricity output feebler than Puerto Rico's?
The poverty in Miami exists in a startling juxtaposition to great wealth.
It provides a wealth of startling new evidence and thought-provoking ideas.
As with so many top footballers, but in Gerrard's case more than most, his substantial wealth now represents a startling contrast with a comparatively impoverished childhood.
Inequality of wealth and income has reached startling proportions, not just in the US, where Elysium is set, or in South Africa, where Blomkamp is from, but also in Britain.
It takes in streets of opulent wealth as well as housing estates of startling poverty, solid professional quarters as well as the student apartments of a university.
Contrast any of New Jersey's major cities with their nearby suburbs and the difference is startling — modest or deteriorating housing downtown, sprawling mansions and obvious wealth beyond the city limits.
Our country has witnessed startling growth in income inequality since the 1970s as gains in wealth have been increasingly concentrated at the very top levels while the large majority of Americans has fallen behind.
Fulford spends the winters brooding on each summer's finds, and has reached the conclusion, startling even to him, that the town was at its height of population and wealth before the Romans arrived.
