startlingly

How To Use startlingly In A Sentence

• The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way.
• The treatments, however, differ startlingly, Flos campi (with its bitonal opening) owing less to traditional counterpoint and more to a vision of simultaneous planes of sound.
• Playing it at my desk this afternoon, it was so startlingly apt (right down to the name of the bloody airport that K will be flying back from on Friday!) that I nearly lost it and blubbed in the middle of the office.
• Of course, Makine's own literary language differs fundamentally from the Russian Futurist experimentation that inspired the Formalists; it is not radically innovative, but startlingly archaic.
• Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow.
• This quote startlingly original novel unquote is both boring and badly written.
• When the shoes finally came off, they revealed white silk half-hose, which, discarded in their turn, showed a pair of startlingly pale feet, on which the new boy now essayed wincingly to walk. The Bent Twig
• It's a text, it has to be said, that is not so much translated — Pound's Chinese "translations" are notoriously inaccurate, though accuracy as such was hardly the point — as derived, paraphrased, transmuted from the eighth-century source (by way of professors Fenollosa, Mori, and Ariga) into a new and startlingly powerful, startlingly alive, English poem. Ezra Pound, “Lament of the Frontier Guard”
• He's a startlingly prolific songwriter, capable of churning out three albums a year.
• That made up title came startlingly close to the real name of one of my family members. FRIDAY; Or, This Week in Queries; Or, How About Instead of Writing A Book You Write Down the Number of a Mental Health Crisis Hotline