Moreover, although there had been other reports of the heated conversation, none of those mentioned the ethnic slur, surely a startling moment not likely to be forgotten by anyone who heard the conversation and recounted it.
Rotwatcher thought we may be missing the point, posting: "Surely the most startling revelation about this whole sorry affair is that Hoon, Hewitt and Byers price themselves at somewhere north of £2,000 a day.
There are astonishing (and surely perilous) ankle bends; startling knee bends; and a few dancers, using extreme turnout, would step on the inner sides of their feet.
The reason, surely, is their hair, so startling in both cases that it distracted me from the music.
And surely one of the most startling art historical sights in all of New York right now is on offer at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery: Vladimir Tatlin's wacky, visionary "Monument to the Third International" — one of early Modernism's most ambitious and best-known works of unrealized architecture, as embodied by one of its biggest architectural models.
Interiors and exteriors are all of a piece, and give the film a giant, intimate-epic quality that is more impressive than any CGI, although some of the most startling effects must surely have been created, or at least assisted, digitally.
Surely no one thought that the startling success of this oddity — sales topping $60 million — was a story of innovation, or an engineering or design breakthrough.
It must surely keep asking questions about that country, digging around, startling, annoying.
It is all the same story, and surely to Reni's credit that he achieved this startling effect, not just with one, but with two of his Sebastians.
Surely the technology could be used to generate a more startling experience.
