Definition of Startling

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Definition of Startling
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Startling Quotations

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
John Sexton

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
J. Philippe Rushton

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
Brian De Palma

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
Charles Foster Bass

Startling Translations

startling in Dutch is ontstellend
startling in German is aufschreckend, aufschreckend, aufschreckenden

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