Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

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

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

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

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.

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful often urgent and essentially life-affirming but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

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