What is "startlingly"

Usage examples of "startlingly".

There were several interesting labour-saving features, all of a startlingly practical rather than a merely gadgety character, and Gaiogi began to chip her gently about her domesticity, avoiding most adroitly any errors of taste which the nature of the occasion might have invited.

She swung down one stairway and up another, down a cool, hypostyle hall, past rows of incised reliefs, past startlingly real paintings.

Now the only picture of John Macnab known to the gillies was that which had been broadcast in talk by Angus and Jimsie of Strathlarrig, and that agreed most startlingly with the navvies account.

Plague brings all of this startlingly, unforgettably, out into the open.

She found the middle-aged and affable Senor Valiente - who was under observation for bronchial problems dictating letters to a startlingly attractive blonde in a very short skirt, who looked as if she would be more at home on stage as an exotic dancer than in an office.

With the other startlingly long arm she pointed into the clump of giant bromeliads directly beneath them.

He sprinted toward her, and he was startlingly quick, but he was no match for Godiva They came to the driveway, and Chrissie kept Godiva on the soft verge, parallel to that hard-surfaced lane.

She shrieks anger, an expression that on her face looks so startlingly wrong that it takes a moment for Liath to realize how much younger Anne is, here in the past.

Everything about him was outsize, from the stained battledress that might have come from any of half a dozen armed forces, to the startlingly large signet ring on his left band.

Startlingly, shockingly in the slumberous stillness, there had boomed the deep strident clangor of a great gong!

Buddha's 550 lives, sermons in stone to draw the pilgrim toward enlightenment as you circumambulated the shrine through the constricting channels of the phenomenal world, rising terrace by terrace from the realm of forms suddenly, startlingly out onto the broad circular terraces at the summit, the revelation of the open sky, the liberating miracle of formlessness.

She was young and startlingly beautiful, and within days of her appearance - and nightly disappearances into Vaebn's private chambers - wagers were being laid among the other servants concerning how long Arrhae ir-Mnaeha would tolerate the situation.

While usually the sounds producedrequired considerable familiarity with the apparatus to be understood quickly,they could, on occasion, be made startlingly loud and clear as I wassoon to realize W.

And I noticed Aster beside him quite often, looking oddly regal, her slim body bedecked in startlingly revealing, astonishingly un-Aster-like costumes.

The two cars were going in opposite directions, and the occupants of Jim's had only a swaying glimpse of Bibbs sitting alone on the back seat--his white face startlingly white against cap and collar of black fur--but he flashed into recognition as Mary bowed to him.