Some of the statistics, and the speed with which they have changed, have been startling.
In any ordinary week, this would have been startling enough.
Despite his trademark irony, which could have been used to startling Weakest Link effect, he adopts a friendly, sympathetic tone with the contenders - again a departure from the original quizmaster and a nod to Millionaire's Chris Tarrant.
Mr Coates's QC Gary Allan later said the "whole event" would have been "shocking and startling".
Already missing Alex Rodriguez when they came to camp, the Yankees have been struck by a startling series of injuries since arriving.
Fiat may have been tempting fate with its startling announcement Tuesday that it was taking a stake in Chrysler, less than two years after a previous trans-Atlantic partnership involving the American carmaker failed--still, the move looks both bold and shrewd, given the circumstances.
So the more startling choice would have been the endorsement of Senator McCain.
The growth in North America is particularly startling given how weak results have been from other major players in enterprise computing.
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What's startling is that the invented elements have been done so well. (One tolerable, perhaps inevitable, exception is a moist, uplifting coda.) Without giving any plot points away, I can tell you that a climactic scene turns on a marvelous surprise, and promise you frequent spasms of suspense that will grow almost unbearable.
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Declining game sales within Capcom were also startling to Inafune, and could possibly have been another contributing factor to his departure.
One expert at this is London-based Universal Everything, whose startling projects for Hyundai, Nokia, Audi, and others have been smashing successes not only at the events and corporate halls where they have been installed, but also on Vimeo.
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