Around almost every corner is a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline, startlingly close. |
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Playing it at my desk this afternoon, it was so startlingly apt that I nearly lost it and blubbed in the middle of the office. |
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Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. |
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The other two, one of whom is startlingly pretty, launch into an genial explanation of why I should give them some money. |
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He was teasing in his answers to some questions, at times startlingly blunt in response to others. |
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It seemed startlingly appropriate, as I had developed pyromania by then as an outlet. |
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When a cancer-stricken doctor is brought in to investigate, the plot begins to spirals towards its startlingly inventive climax. |
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Also, they all make a startlingly fine Pinot Noir, a wine that often features a combination of California racy fruit with Burgundian earth tones. |
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He's a startlingly prolific songwriter, capable of churning out three albums a year. |
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Her voice is a startlingly versatile instrument prone to a metallic nasality. |
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The opening idea of the last movement sounds startlingly like a conflation of the two major allegros from the ballet suite. |
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On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers. |
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The uniformity in the appearance and bearing of the assembled delegates is startlingly troubling. |
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Johann Kattus, Alte Reserve, Brut is a startlingly dry Viennese sparkling wine with a very fine persistent mousse. |
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The sound that the small bones in your foot make when they break are not so much a crunch as a crack, startlingly loud. |
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The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way. |
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The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey. |
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Breeders of short-haired blues have never been many in number, nor has there ever appeared any startlingly good specimen in the show pen. |
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But they remain startlingly original, if only fitfully funny. |
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Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow. |
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And part of the appeal is the startlingly crisp and fresh sound, a million miles away from the airbrushed fuzzy melange of most guitar bands these days. |
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It was a startlingly original format, combining the popular docusoap and game show genres with the voyeuristic qualities of the webcam and closed-circuit television. |
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A mushroom recently found in southern New Caledonia is shocking pink and startlingly tall. |
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Collins worked at the long-departed Limmer's Hotel, described by contemporaries as gloomy, comfortless and startlingly dirty. |
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The doggerel itself was silly, but the earned intimacy of the group felt startlingly sincere. |
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The basics of darkest black, grey and blue shot with crisp white are a startlingly bewitching palette. |
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The museum nearby contains amazing frescos, including one that looks startlingly modern, taken from the Tomb of the Diver. |
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Take two former rowers and one former triathlete and you get Ireland's ever-improving and startlingly fast female pursuit team. |
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We ought to take great care not to introduce rules that limit growth in this startlingly versatile market. |
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Its startlingly beautiful terrain is the result of a geological folding that raised the sea floor to form a mountain range. |
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We know that among the aboriginal population in Canada there are startlingly high rates of smoking and tobacco use, including in northern Canada. |
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The world's most advanced IP conference room phone that gives you startlingly life-like sound. |
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All nurses, full-time and part-time, suffer startlingly high rates of strains and sprains and back injuries. |
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The treatments, however, differ startlingly, Flos campi owing less to traditional counterpoint and more to a vision of simultaneous planes of sound. |
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Morgenroth's subjects seem uninhibited and startlingly candid throughout. |
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Relying on this intimist perspective, Flam's discussions of individual paintings sometimes depart startlingly from others' readings of the same material. |
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And, while there are many startlingly violent scenes, they are juxtaposed with beauteous ones. |
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He is a startlingly brilliant bassist, as accomplished in classical music as in jazz. |
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Once or twice I almost jumped as we encountered startlingly lifelike mannequins standing in rooms, recreating historical characters from the castle's past. |
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Another voice rang out, startlingly loud in the tense stillness. |
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Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live. |
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There was a time when the average Briton or American belonged to a startlingly large number of clubs and societies. |
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This is a startlingly complex and mature wine given its youth. |
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On Wasp Star, XTC come back to their nervy, new-wavish geek-boy rock, producing a startlingly fresh album for guys that have been doing this for over 20 years. |
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And then to Tenby, a beguiling town, full of light and hanging flower baskets and with the most startlingly immaculate pair of beaches of any town I've ever seen. |
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Despite the idea, the original series was startlingly comical in places. |
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When it comes to the arts, the public's acceptance of risk, and tolerance for failure, is startlingly low. |
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Much like predicting weather, a startlingly large number of variables, known and unknown, affect what eventually happens. |
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The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace. |
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It zipped up and away, elegantly and startlingly. |
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This highly personal first album featured a number of startlingly original songs such as Bye Bye My Love, a country ballad sung in Arabic and English which could have come straight out of a Louisiana bayou. |
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The Giants' first-string offense was startlingly more efficient. |
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The answer is startlingly simple: endless EU regulation and red tape is smothering innovative businesses, leaving them with little choice but to relocate or close down. |
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The second half of the film, in particular, is startlingly effective. |
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The reasons for addressing widening disparities among people have become startlingly clear, even beyond widely accepted notions of justice and human rights. |
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Displaying your video at 10,000:1 contrast and in true to life colours, you can expect super bright image playback, faster response times, wider viewing angles and startlingly high contrast. |
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LaserTools' startlingly fast RAM-resident print buffer, Printcache, is the most powerful and fastest printer buffer available. |
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The powders consist of particles with diameters below 100 nanometers, and when compared to the original materials from which they are made they have new and startlingly different properties. |
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Drummer Travis Smith underpins the sharp brutality of his band's songs with a startlingly dextrous percussive attack, all machine-gun kick drums and octopoid bursts of round-the-kit athleticism. |
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Drop-out rates were also startlingly high in Terena areas. |
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Inexperienced writers feel failures because they cannot sit down with a blank sheet of paper and instantly churn out startlingly original and creative work. |
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A startlingly dark, mouthwatering amalgam of purple plum paste, blackberry preserves, bitter chocolate, toasted walnut, soy, and raw beef intrigues the nose. |
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A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle. |
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