It's not just the startling clarity of her singing, but also the lovely and occasionally wry songwriting that's bound to capture listeners' attention and imaginations.

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Could her startling feat of maintaining World No. 1 ranking for 377 weeks happen today, when many more women detonate blistering service games, discharge powerful forehands and display dazzling speed and footwork?

CNN: Kobe's right: The Dream Team would lose

But Dianne Feinstein, the incoming chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, is nonetheless infuriated that Mr Obama didn't consult her before the startling announcement.

ECONOMIST: The Democrats are hitting a few speed bumps

The most startling stroke that Arianda brought to her reinvention of the malaprop-prone blonde was to see her as uneducated but not stupid.

NEWYORKER: The Natural

She owes her rebound to a startling revolution in psychological counseling that has taken four decades to unfold--and which now is spreading to the farthest reaches of American medicine.

FORBES: Patient Fix Thyself

Soon after placing a testosterone patch on her bare hip, she noticed a startling change.

FORBES: Quest for Desire

Emma Roberts (the niece of Julia, to whom, once she has curled her hair for a party scene, she bears a startling resemblance) stars as Nancy, the supersleuth without a vice in the world.

NEWYORKER: Nancy Drew