| The sound that the small bones in your foot make when they break are not so much a crunch as a crack, startlingly loud. |
| It seemed startlingly appropriate, as I had developed pyromania by then as an outlet. |
| Johann Kattus, Alte Reserve, Brut is a startlingly dry Viennese sparkling wine with a very fine persistent mousse. |
| Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. |
| On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers. |
| Around almost every corner is a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline, startlingly close. |
