Marie, with her oddly light hair, was startling in other ways. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But Alec shot straight up before Mark reached him, startling him so much he almost skidded across the floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I moved slowly, as if a wild bird had landed there and I was desperately trying to avoid startling it into flight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sound of it—the tinkle of joy in the midst of our bleak American winter—was startling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A man in uniform came out, startling us all. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure that what I am about to describe really rates as a startling coincidence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The girl looked about sixteen, with choppy black hair and startling blue eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without warning, Anna jumps to her feet, pushing her chair back—it clatters onto the kitchen floor, startling their daughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten drabs are the same as a copper jot; ten jots—” “Good enough,” Ben broke in, startling me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And last, and to Mrs. Richardson most startling of all: a paper cutout of a birdcage, shattered, as if something very powerful inside had burst free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the pictures she did keep, and sold, were startling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One time he dozed for ten minutes before startling, and that was the night’s one minor victory. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The startling thing about it was that the hangings made it square. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, he sat still, placid as a little Buddha, stabbing out one startling move after another. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He fought a moment with sudden, startling hope. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not complaining,” said Harry, who missed neither the disturbing dreams nor the startling flashes of insight into Voldemort’s mind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They entered the church by the sanctuary door, startling the sacristan who slept and ate in a small room off the entrance porch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Now he got to his feet and walked forward more carefully, startling an owl which rose on silent wings. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I don't know if Hilda could read, but she made startling hats. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Second, you don’t know a really startling idea when you see one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were used to startling people, except in the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’s as weird and manic as he wants to be, and Henry jabs back in sharp flashes of startling wit. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Giver had chosen a startling and disturbing memory that day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy flipped it over, and I saw that its underside shone a startling greeny-blue, iridescent and shot through with purple. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A loud boom sounded from all directions, startling Thomas out of his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Anya wasn’t sure if he knew they were there, and she didn’t know how to get his attention without startling him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was still numb from the startling news that I had had another brother, something I remembered as a kid, but had somehow forgotten. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“The nature of a robot reaction to a dilemma is startling,” she began. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s easier for them to categorize it that way,” Wanda said from the doorway, startling them all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The gene, meanwhile, invades discourses concerning race, racial discrimination, and “racial intelligence,” and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was one year that I remember opening our gifts only to make the startling discovery that we were poor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d left Lansing unable to dance, but now I went around the gymnasium floor flinging little gills over my shoulders and hips, showing my most startling steps. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to his knees, and Arm hurried over to see what had been so startling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Stop right there," called Nok, her voice startling her as it rang off the limestone. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His palms were warm and rough, a startling contrast to his long, agile fingers, the fingers of a scribe or ketubah painter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aimee whips around, slamming her phone against the counter, startling everyone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was as startling a discovery as the sudden seeing of a ghost. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The most startling one was that the first letter of the first name of each person on Calder’s list was a pentomino. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Using more conventional means, however, the private detectives made a startling discovery. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His friends had been searching for him on the bridge, and he’d stayed hidden for a while before creeping out and startling them with a whoop. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove. Oh, yes! But I knew," he shouted, startling me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humason and Hubble found, to their amazement, that the spectra of all the distant galaxies are red-shifted and, still more startling, that the more distant the galaxy was, the more red-shifted were its spectral lines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice is barely a whisper, but through the speakers it sounds broken and startling, so crackly that I have trouble understanding him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later, at All-City rehearsal, Mr. Watras made a startling announcement to the group:The school district had just put a new policy in place. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see the She Elephant,” said Knife, startling Tendai so much he almost severed the belt completely. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kosi’s beauty was startling, those cheekbones, that flawless skin, those perfect womanly curves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pappa’s happy greeting came down the line, startling him out of his cold, tumbling thoughts. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One Thursday, as she was standing in line at the Garn Square market, hoping to get a bag of turnips for stew that night, she overheard a startling conversation between two people standing behind her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the different hairstyles on the boys was startling; some had almost clean-shaven heads; others, long hair tied back like a girls. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of them screams, startling me into dropping the basket. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

William “had made a reputation so startling that I regarded the task of catching up to him as being altogether hopeless.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Are you the musical girl?” he asked, without any startling “Hey!” as he looked down at her very kindly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Merry had eyes only for Aragorn, so startling was the change that he saw in him, as if in one night many years had fallen on his head. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

June asks from his bedroom doorway that night, almost startling another cup of coffee out of his hands. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The new man in charge of the Midway, Sol Bloom, had struck like a bolt of lightning and seemed amenable to just about anything—the more novel and startling the better. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou climbed on board, startling the sleepy guard, who leapt into action with his gun leveled right at her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He realized that the cries, urgent and startling though they were, were too small and shrill for any kind of elil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words passed from mouth to mouth, and there was universal incredulity, although the suggestion was communicated through the crowd with startling rapidity.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The same technology has been applied to human beings, with other kinds of rewards, and the results have been startling. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s in Heaven, with Papa Dios,” Abuela said behind me, startling me out of the brooding sorrow that pressed against my chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The knife cut easily through the air and opened into a world where they were having a rainstorm: heavy drops hurtled through, startling them both. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally he blurts out, startling me, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Chris shouted, startling the judge into dropping her files to the floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have come with good news about her. Quite startling news, Mr Wormwood. Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The screams have stopped, and in their absence my name has rebounded, startling in its proximity. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From the moment I heard Lembede speak, I knew I was seeing a magnetic personality who thought in original and often startling ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Bear’s howl was so startling that it snapped Brightbill right out of his stupor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he got back ashore, he walked up to a reporter at the shell house, buttonholed him, and rendered a startling verdict: “Tom Bolles has a fine rough-water boat,” he said quietly but forcefully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But what was startling was the emaciation of his face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Gradually, he developed the startling habit of entering rooms with a leap. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I crashed into the campsite, startling the twins, who had finished tying up Travis and were guarding him with the handgun. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Ernest Lawrence spotted the startling headlines from his car when he pulled up at a corner newsstand in Merced, on his way to a business meeting at Yosemite National Park. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was more than startling, she decided, it was a miracle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was young, with startling blue eyes and a severe frown. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The cold was startling, like a slap to the face, and the wind was still bitter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But just when I was beginning to feel at ease, the most startling thing happened. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The third was a woman; from this distance, all I could see of her was that her hair was a startling shade of red. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But just as she turned to climb the stairs, a man came out of another corridor, startling her so much she nearly dropped her briefcase. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, when I was having one of these visions, I had the startling revelation that plane geometry was, in fact, a message from God. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They started before, when all the hibiscuses in our front yard were a startling red. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, the contrast is startling between the desert and the irrigated land, with its lush patchwork of maize, sugar, and fruit trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The results were somewhat startling: the highly gifted kids in the study weren't much more likely to become prominent intellectuals than normal kids. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She is called Zola and is skinny like a twig- tree, with hair chip-chopped in a startling way. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It clattered to the floor, startling Cecilia, who turned around to look at the mess with wide-eyed amazement. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fun-house Muriel began to ripple, as did the startling image of Goldilocks shedding feathers as she expanded into a person. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was startling, how easily she slipped into mundane conversation. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was all made-up, her complexion glowing, and he thought, as he often did, what a beautiful woman she was, eyes perfectly almond-shaped, a startling symmetry to her features. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her owners came to ruin with startling frequency. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He looks concerned and bewildered, a sudden, startling reminder to me of just how young he is. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That is, it was startling but not shocking. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The selective highlighting endows the lifesize figure of David and the gruesome head with a startling presence. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling cross-cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies and found that cultures that lavish physical affection on infants tend to be disinclined to violence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A startling thought had just occurred to him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Jason Grace, the West Wind has been called many things...warm, gentle, life-giving, and devilishly handsome. But I have never been called startling. I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The flames shot up with startling ferocity, sending up two curtains of fire, effectively cutting off the far corner of the shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I found a mutilated dead male in the brush, a startling and sad sight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

An English accent speaks suddenly from somewhere deep within my mind, startling me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sleepy voice of Gaea whispered in Percy’s mind, startling him so badly the boat rocked. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The door to the dressing room opened, startling Billy. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the keen thrill of startling them, but felt that the cost was too great. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you looked there was something startling: a stuffed squirrel, a kite in the shape of a dragon, a wooden cow with a spear piercing its side. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Charles had a rather startling talent for forgery which, according to Camilla, dated from early childhood—expert report-card signatures by the fourth grade, entire excuse notes by the sixth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And that's when the horn sounded, startling him and the world around him into a new consciousness. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During his voyage around the world, his encounters with natives had been startling and enlightening. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she entered the cafe, wearing her nurse’s cape, startling him from a pleasant daze, he stood too quickly and knocked his tea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had deeply loved her husband and this, her first awareness of feeling attraction again, was a startling revelation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It came now as a startling and painful realization that he’d had something and lost it without fully understanding that he’d had it in the first place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody went bright brown, like Red Indians, with startling teeth and flashing eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, considering its startling toxicity, lead solder was not removed from American food containers until 1993. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still holding her hand, he pushed his face forward and looked at her intensely, startling her, but then he laughed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was thicker about the chest and broader at the shoulders, and though his face was comely enough, he lacked Ser Loras's startling beauty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Reverend Moorehead was a tall sad man with a stoop and a tendency to give his sermons startling titles. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was startling to me that an unusual number of the requests came from groups of white Christian ministers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her disastrous birth experience, and her decertification, had been so sudden and startling that no one at the Birthing Unit had thought to supply her with pills or instruct her to take them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A Story of Love, Hatred and Man’s Greed for Gold. Based on the real facts as divulged by the startling confession of Burkhart.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then the sound of the drum echoed in the great hall, startling me for a moment, who had waited for it, who knew that it would come. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to know something?” she said, her voice startling me as it broke through the uneasy silence. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

How startling then to hear the simple stark oath of office offered and accepted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry’s parents’ wedding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The grandfather clock in the hall bonged loudly, four times, startling us both. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August, Burnham’s chief structural engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, made a startling disclosure: He had failed to calculate wind loads for the fair’s main buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He slams on the brakes, startling the ibises that are digging for worms in the soggy grass. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Kendra had wanted to paint the pavilions around the pond, and Lena had quickly sketched a scene with startling accuracy, as if the housekeeper had the place memorized. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I said, cracking my voice like a whip, startling the students’ attentions back to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In many parts of the world the fatality rate from parathion is startling: 100 fatal cases in India and 67 in Syria in 1958, and an average of 336 deaths per year in Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every time I see him, it’s startling to remember that he’s my real father. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not the first such meeting I’ve been to, but I still find it startling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gesture is startling, atom-splitting, because it’s so unexpected, so tender. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel Riddle bore a startling resemblance to the illustrated figure on a Monopoly board. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls the Trojan watchers saw with astonishment two sights, each as startling as the other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, a rock touched down in the water close to the raft, startling the boys. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The children banged on the glass and pointed at the types in a disrespectful fashion, startling them as they pretended to fuss with sailor’s knots. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The most startling thing about the face was its supernatural conglomeration of bright colors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was nothing very startling in what he had said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a storybook-beautiful girl, with long blond hair and startling blue eyes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was startling to Stella how busy a small city could be—the cars, the buildings, the people acting like they had important things to do. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, feeling reassured by Jamison’s interest and concern, she told him the startling thing that the old dyer had said with such certainty. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He must’ve been at least fifteen feet tall, but the most startling thing was his enormous milky eye, scarred and webbed with cataracts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the car next to me comes noisily to life, startling me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The upper right screen is sometimes black, sometimes a stark and startling white. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s another startling pop as the cooling units shut off. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though looking down one day, I made a startling discovery: New curves had appeared in my body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Arion jumped over a breaching humpback whale and kept galloping, startling a pack of seals off an iceberg. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The phone rang at four o’clock in the morning, startling Fadi out of his sleep. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A friend returned from a visit to her Detroit home and told me of a startling ‘ ‘black man’s” religion, “The Nation of Islam,” to which, to her surprise, her entire family was converted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had startling blue eyes like Jason’s, but his skin was coppery, as if he’d spent his entire life on a tanning bed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Newt was about to say something else when Minho freaked out, startling Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Soon she was startling everyone with her insights. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dunstaple was a composer with a new and enchanting style that everyone wanted to emulate, and musicians fell over themselves praising the startling new sound of English triads. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then a wolf spider, startling in size and hairiness, streaked over the gravel, either chasing something smaller or being chased by something bigger, I couldn’t tell which. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There may be more demanding and exciting summits to reach along the Appalachian Trail than Mount Washington but none can be more startling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Carmel was mildly startling after Centralia—a busy little town, nicely old-fashioned, with traffic on Main Street and sidewalks full of shoppers and other townsfolk going about their business. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And it implied a startling critique of the academy’s tendency toward parochialism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the dark fields, startling up an old white horse and some cows, heading for a group of out buildings clustered together some distance from the farmhouse. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the study swings open, startling us both. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the paper presented these allegations as scandalous bombshells, call-ing them “startling disclosures.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As startling as the first time, but nicer, since it happened in the light. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two white men burst into the shack, guns pulled, flashlights startling, searching faces. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The ice shattered under BaiMa’s hooves, and Pinmei gasped as freezing water sprayed her, its coldness more startling than a slap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her footprints pushed aside the snow to reveal the deep brown of fallen leaves, and red chokecherries climbed among the evergreens — startling color in the gray and white landscape. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darla plunked the lemonade in front of Finn, startling him out of his daydreams. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Matty replied, startling himself, because he had not spelled it out in his mind before, had not said it aloud yet, yet here it was, and he was saying it to Jean. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“No, I come to seek you,” he says, startling me with his frank reply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The curvature of the earth was apparent, but it was not startling. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called for Grandpa and Lena in the barn, just to be sure, starting with small voices to avoid startling the cow and gradually building to shouts. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She was awakened in the morning by the shrill voices of children—Shae’s nieces and nephew—who ran into the room and pounced on Shae’s sleeping form, startling a yelp out of her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Another night, he fell down the steps of a theater, startling a small crowd of people. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Still, I say it was the missionaries that misled my son,” he said, startling me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The best that could be said for them physically was that they looked wiry in their startling sets of underwear, which were the color of moss. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brum gave a sharp rap on the little window, startling Nina. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was startling and I watched the surge and flutter of the birds as their colors flared for an instant like an unfurled oriental fan. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the boys had the same startling blue eyes, though, and soon five pairs peered at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the statue shaped like Joseph’s mother began to move, startling him out of his thoughts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The most startling corridor—my favorite, actually—was the long, semi-open one connecting the max facility to the school building and Tappan, across the railroad tracks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was startling to both of them when Dessie said one evening on the hill, “Tom, why don’t you get married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even more startling is when those who normally call him Gogol refer to him as Nikhil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was something so startling,” Elizebeth later said, “that I could not grasp it all at once.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The startling results were published in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She swallowed the last drop of coffee and got up from her stool brusquely, startling Alicia, who reached her arms out to me and clung to my neck the minute she was close enough. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even more startling, people seemed to like listening to her and to be genuinely inspired by her arguments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Events in Korea in the winter of 1950-51 were therefore startling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I entered the blockhouse, the speaker to the phone squawked, startling me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whether she was fierce or friendly, Serafina had no way of telling; but she had to wake Mary up without startling her, and there was a spell for that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

How, later, she had held him for the first time, and had noticed the startling pale eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Siunek is startling me from a deep sleep I didn’t know I was in. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Most startling of all, a splendid dark cartoon of a black eye was stamped in a ring on my eye socket, in the richest inks of Tyrian, chartreuse, and plum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old at the time, small for my age, and it was startling to find myself locked in a windowless room with a man who barely reached my chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, she tried to shove her secret snack cake wrappers under the imaginary mattress, only to feel a caterpillar crawling across her hand, startling her awake. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When it is removed the effect is startling, almost shocking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either by itself would have been startling; together they were positively unnerving. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

White birds wings sprouted out of the heels, startling me so much, I dropped them. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And they often swoop in unpredictable and startling directions, just to have a laugh at their riders expense. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Salva’s first taste had been startling—all those bubbles jumping around in his mouth! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always startling to see Jack’s big brown eyes in his mother’s wide, soft- featured face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You getting on or what, Aven?” the bus driver asked, startling me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I turned and walked quickly away from him, startling a rabbit that fled before me like my own leaping heart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek Fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get ready, folks!” a voice said on the loudspeaker, startling me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Oh, fleet rocket, your thunder wanders down the valleys, startling deer and mountaineer alike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at him with her startling black eyes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A harsh voice comes from the hallway, startling us both: “What do you want?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing startling about Dana’s appearance was a fat, scabrous upper lip that hadn’t been that way when Roy dropped off the letter at Dana’s front door. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have dozed off because the bell rang, startling me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

More startling than the label is the fact that she assigned it to him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The way her pelvic bones stretched the material clear of her skin, the deep curve of her waist, her startling whiteness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Olanna’s words surprised her, but the startling truth brought the urge to cry. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe because the words were so startling as they issued from this pale and inoffensive looking little man. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they visited earth, Librans would also find windstorms most startling and unpleasant, compared to the gentle air currents they knew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s brilliance was startling; it made her feel faint. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A shock of startling pain—and he was broad awake, awake and fiercely angry. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rang then, startling both of us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As a result, they were making startling discoveries that only underscored the constraints faced by their American colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The fact that she can recall these details so precisely is at once startling and endearing to him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dead bird is an incongruity, more startling than an unexpected live bird, sure evidence to the human mind that something has gone wrong. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon hush the volume of sound was startling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Something within their territory has frightened them—the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise—and set off a flight reaction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a ridiculous rule,” she said bitterly, startling a laugh out of Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Had Griffith publicized this startling result, he would have set all of biology ablaze. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The speed and power and grace of the adults was startling by contrast, and Mary saw how much a growing youngster must long for the day when the wheels would fit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that he did, it was a startling thing, a dark catalog of subjugation and struggle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We splashed through shallow puddles, startling flies from their perches atop piles of rotten food. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And they looked and laughed, and suddenly seeing their satisfied faces and understanding, I gave a Bledsoe laugh, startling them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s worth saying that locative memory—though most startling in its results and most intriguing in the hints it gives about neuropsychology—isn’t the only game in town. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pocock pondered this effect and its consequences and gradually came to a startling realization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor,” I say, nervous and high-pitched, startling everyone. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She kicked aside a platter, startling a dozen suitors. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His signature was not the smoking six-shooter; instead, like Sherlock Holmes, he relied upon the startling powers of reason and deduction, the ability to observe what the Watsons of the world merely saw. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was then that I made a startling discovery. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We stood a moment in silence before Connor barked, startling me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A car door slammed in the driveway, startling us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But most startling of all was a stuffed horse’s head over the fireplace. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

AM news fills his ears as soon as he turns on the ignition, startling him; his father had always been particular about turning off the radio at the end of a drive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Zwicky was also capable of insights of the most startling brilliance. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We had witnessed something essential, something brand-new and profound, a piece of the world so startling there was not yet a name for it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy Chester and his friends grabbed Cora, startling her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Commandant’s orders cut through the fog of my brain, startling me from sleep. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of them spoke, startling Cora—his head was inches below her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The termites had a startling effect on the piano. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all it was a fairly routine day until dinner time, and even what happened then was not really startling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she put a wild hand inside the seat of his trousers, startling the boy considerably, but almost immediately withdrew it and decorously tucked in his shirt for him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This should be as startling to economists as a burst of exotic radiation is to astronomers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freddie looked the boy up and down, taking in the steady but secretive eyes and the startling contrast between Ruth’s lemony skin and the boy’s black skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city’s newspapers loved to crow about the startling increase in the number of workers employed by Chicago’s industries, especially meat-packing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Zeppelins,” said the bear’s voice, startling Will, for he hadn’t heard the great creature come near. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Yeah?" a woman's voice, startling in its carrying power, answered sulkily from a room off the balcony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the waiting, she fell asleep herself, startling awake only when she heard the floorboards singing a song she hadn’t heard before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The lenses made his blue-green irises seem so large they were startling. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Only Katahdin, with its rocky upper slopes and startling muscularity, offers anything that looks faintly intimidating. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It may be, too, that he wanted to show in the most startling and shocking way possible how easy it was to deceive the awful, venerated, humbly adored divinities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flapped and honked noisily as they flew low over Armistead Field, startling the Under Thirteens, who then began laughing at the idea that they had been spooked by a flock of birds. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, with startling agility and speed, straight off the ground with a jump like a grasshopper or a frog, Gollum bounded forward into the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He’s been teetering on the edge of letting go of this specific dream for months now, terrified of it, but the relief is startling, a mountain off his back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly the trucker’s face appeared in the window, startling me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Here, where the startling tiny jaws of crocuses snap at the late- winter sun like the heads of baby watersnakes, here I killed the old woman with the irongray hair. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not rent to Igbo people,” he said softly, startling her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And yet, however startling, it was only a detail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I followed her aim out the window, I cried out, startling her, “No, no, not the mimosa!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden startling burst of singing—hundreds of male voices crying out fiercely in harsh metallic unison. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam snapped the fan shut and rapped it against the edge of the table, startling us all. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gentlemen showed their legs to an equally startling extent Their clothes were parti-coloured. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With those big startling blue eyes trained on her blankly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To the left, across gently sloping sageland, the gorge opened for a startling instant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives us the strangest smile, a grimace almost, and I can’t help myself, I lunge forward and grab Evie out of her buggy, startling her in the process. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened no more than two inches, but it was enough to give me a startling peek at the intruder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to me startling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is novel, and startling, is that they are mixtures of species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it got close to her, she ran toward it, startling the horses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shadow fell across the table, startling me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are "We're number two!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was very startling; but he was not at all frightened, now. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so the next day we hiked, really hiked, startling Mary Ellen with our thrusting strides. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her face popped up on the other side, startling him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He bared his bruised knuckles at me, a startling contrast to the elegant finery of his silver rings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pike, though, told agents one more thing that was startling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I watched him another second or two, noticing the startling similarities in the release on our jump shots. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as Ota gave the signal, Raesa and Pol melted into the trees, moving as quietly as they could to avoid startling the deer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Chase called down, and his machine guns burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

By the time we got back to the house, we found that Sam Houston and Lamar had brought home a startling catfish that weighed forty-five pounds on the gin scale. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Of all the startling things that had happened that afternoon, those two words were perhaps the most extraordinary. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her cinnamon-toast hair was tied back, which made her almond eyes look even larger and more startling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he listened to the startling news bulletins, he worried about the fate of his family. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Jude,” Locke says, touching my arm, startling me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You’d know that if you weren’t so stupid,” he snaps, startling Jason, “but it doesn’t matter ’cause he thinks you’re hot.” Theater Review: In ‘Hand to God,’ Steven Boyer’s Puppet Is Unfiltered 2014-03-11T02:00:02Z

"It was startling then that somebody would be charged criminally," said Loyola Law School professor Stanley Goldman. Charges could prompt film industry to take crew safety more seriously 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

And this season, Ms. Haberman unveiled “Snow,” a startling contrast to the athletic dance in “Video Game.” Times Critics’ Last-Chance Dance Picks 2013-12-26T21:33:00Z

There is a startling quality to this reserve in the beginning. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

This is mostly an album of slow to medium tempos and under-the-surface effects, but some of the songs develop in startling ways. Radiohead’s triumph of dread: Thom Yorke and company brood spectacularly on “A Moon Shaped Pool” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Throughout, intimacy is problematic: elusive, startling and awkward. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

With a few startling exceptions, much of “Lost Landscapes of New York” is silent; there’s no chatter, noise or nudging music. Excavating New York, Frame by Frame 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

It’s startling how seldom you see that kind of realism in American movies, which are more comfortable with separate spheres and with a cautiously sentimental view of heterosexual domesticity. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Gunplay aside, the concert’s most startling moment was its new take on “Like a Virgin,” a hit from 1984. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z

Love is a subject he treats with enormous erudition, startling self-analysis and exceptional musical vitality. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

His mostly coy collisions didn’t illuminate much in terms of startling performative possibilities. Dance Review: Daniel Linehan in the American Realness Festival - Review 2012-01-12T23:55:14Z

What remains are a boy and mother at the hour of her death, the shared bucket of potatoes a sudden, startling entry to transcendence. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“This Is What You Did” tops her banjo with startling interjections: a hopscotching electric guitar, trilling and discursive saxophones, aggressive bits of drumming, vocal harmonies. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

It is startling and upsetting and — as with so much of the art Golden champions, this is the point — you can’t look away. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Return to Seoul” is a startling and uneasy wonder, a film that feels like a beautiful sketch of a tornado headed directly toward your house. ‘Return to Seoul’ Review: Found in Translation 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

That was sobering, but it was even more startling that the story didn’t end with his death. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

"It's an amazing, startling, shocking, arresting and upsetting picture that is impossible to ignore," Wolff said. Arresting images of oil spill help drive story 2010-05-28T06:33:00Z

Yet there was little synthetic about the rebellious performer with the startling voice. ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ Review: An Overdue Close-up 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

From “The Godfather” to “The Sopranos,” the mafia has loomed large in the popular imagination, thanks to characters of startling intensity — ferocious yet filled with ambivalence and subtlety. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a startling reveal, particularly since she seems to gain strength and purpose as her partner slowly dies. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z

His Dee, who trades in his hermit guise for the equally startling mustache and goatee worthy of a mincing courtier, is the one person here who may earn the designation of hero. 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z

After nearly 150 years, The Luncheon remains extraordinarily startling. Manet: Portraying Life – review 2013-01-26T19:44:58Z

As Delbanco observes, “To read the irritable prose in Jefferson’s advertisement alongside the same writer’s soaring calls for liberty in the Declaration is, to put it mildly, a startling experience.” How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

At worst, Light Show is a funfair of more or less startling effects. How the Hayward Gallery's Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs 2013-01-28T18:33:05Z

Given the stark differences on display this week, it was startling to hear Martins say after the proceedings that military commissions “like federal court and courts martial” provide a fair system of justice. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z

Often they spoke in lush and startling metaphors — about the confusions of girlhood, the salvation of music and, above all, the men who used and abused them — and moved with hypnotic urgency. ‘For Colored Girls’ Review: Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s why the insistent, quotidian quiet of “Loving” can feel so startling. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Malick’s film is not especially comical, and he is surely one of the least Jewish directors in the annals of American cinema, but his ending has a similarly startling effect. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a startling analogy that Weissmann delivers in his characteristically muted, matter-of-fact style. A Prosecutor’s Backstage Tour of the Mueller Investigation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Twenty-six years on from Autobahn – where this series of startling gigs began – we're all slaves to the robotic sounds they championed. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night eight: Tour de France 2013-02-15T16:43:55Z

This is one of the most startling and refreshing recordings I’ve heard. CD reviews: A conductor takes risks with Tchaikovsky 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It used the natural shapes in a startling geometric way. Food photography competition winner 2011-01-20T11:04:47Z

This scattering of white provides a startling reality check. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z

Directed by the veteran Daniel Sullivan, “Radiance” takes up Curie’s story as she and her husband, Pierre, are together making startling discoveries in their makeshift laboratory near Paris. | 'Radiance': ?Radiance? by Alan Alda at Geffen Playhouse - Review 2011-11-27T21:00:09Z

It’s a surprising choice for two reasons: His music is startling to conservative ears, yet bears little resemblance to the brashly rhythmic post-minimalist language now favored by many younger, trendier composers. Can an avant-garde composer draw new people to classical music? Seattle’s Emerald City Music is betting on it 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

And perhaps most startling, she wants to bring more gay Republicans into the conservative fold. Not Done Yet 2010-10-08T21:40:00Z

The sweater selection itself was uncontroversial, yet the color, a shade of pink traditionally reserved for teen girl diaries and baby girl onesies, was still startling when worn by a hunk. Statement Dressing in a Red Carpet Kurta 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

While oversize, the domesticated Columbus statue is not as startling as I thought it would be. Art Review: Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Discovering Columbus’ Installation 2012-09-21T18:15:31Z

There's further startling insight in the fourth stanza, which looks back to the earth to "the least beloved human face". Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z

“But absent some truly startling revelation, I don’t believe it will change his overall marketability.” In Family Court, a Reckoning for Gibson?s Erratic Career 2010-11-21T22:33:00Z

The statistics Zaraska has unearthed to support her thesis are startling. Optimism, friendship and tidy socks – the secret to living to 100 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

One of the novel’s most curious elements is the way Marie’s labor accrues a kind of holiness that redounds to her in startling visions. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The startling removal — upending a carefully and heavily fought-over panel — forced the judge to return to the jury pool to find another juror. A battle over jurors ends, and a trial looms for Bill Cosby 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

In startling contrast, six of the nine composers featured on the Last Night are long-dead Englishmen, residue from the age of Empire. The Sound of Brexit at the BBC Proms 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

In return, the Americans offer their own startling entertainment – a minstrel show performed by members of the crew in blackface. British Museum snaps up 50ft Japanese scroll 2013-04-02T14:38:48Z

You can see what he means, for Žižek cuts a fairly startling physical figure – like a grizzly bear, pawing wildly at his face, sniffing and snuffling and gesticulating between every syllable. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z

Aslam makes the startling assertion that he has "11 more novels to write" – all already mapped out. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

This book’s single most startling section describes Bennie’s encounter with Scotty, a damaged kid and former band mate of Bennie’s who has turned into a dangerously embittered failure. Books of The Times: Jennifer Egan?s ?Visit From the Goon Squad? 2010-06-21T00:10:00Z

It was almost as if the absence of competition – how could I possess the youthful attributes of women his age? – gave way to a startling confidence. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The 45-minute piece confronts a startling reality: According to Unesco, nearly half of the world’s approximately 6,000 languages are endangered. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The checklist reveals that the photograph was taken by Darwin’s son Leonard, introducing the idea of family dynamics, which recurs in startling ways. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

Africa and African-America are also the subjects of two other notably absorbing and startling books, both catalogs for exhibitions now on view. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

Yet the appearance of startling ruthlessness is deceptive, as it is a younger self and his or her efforts that are usually being punished, whether by criticism or self-parody. Leading writers publish bad reviews of themselves 2013-03-25T12:09:39Z

There was a lot of tempo variety, sometimes startling in its effect — like the odd pauses in the “Hallelujah Chorus.” ‘Messiah’ rings out, with Gary Thor Wedow at the helm 2013-12-22T02:43:48Z

That’s a startling and somewhat sentimentalized notion, but Ms. Jackson and Mr. Daniels, inerrant in their dryness, pull it off. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

These break cleverly for the many officers’ portraits and add a startling roadblock effect. Martin Creed’s Anti-Spectacle at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

So thank heavens for Zuckerberg's startling lack of basic social niceties. Please release me: Why getting dumped is a film hero's best hope 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

Think of the startling vision of the man in the yellow jacket, dead but still standing, in “Blue Velvet.” Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Serling himself was influenced by American author O. Henry, famous for his startling conclusions. Twenty years after ‘The Sixth Sense,’ M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t given up on twist endings 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

But there is a quiet, startling scene right at the start that sets the tone. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women' 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Considering the source, it was a startling claim. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Even more startling, the latter study, from the website Polygraph, found in its analysis of more than 2,000 films that male characters speak more than women even in women-centric movies. 25 years ago, ‘Thelma & Louise’ was a radical statement. Sadly, it still is. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Waters glided onto the New York avant-garde in 1965, at the age of 19, startling those around her with a sylphlike voice and a haunted air. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Just before the performance began, Freeman made a startling announcement. Jazz legend Von Freeman is the wrong age 2011-01-10T14:55:00Z

Instead, beginning with the indelible third episode—titled “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes”—the show dove into startling existential depths, combining surrealism with a devotion to emotional continuity. Rate Culture 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Since 1924, she had studied and depicted them — gone to the startling heart of them — with her original style. O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The two coincide in her 1970s work to build a genre of startling and uncompromising minimalism. Review: The Revelatory Early Works of Lucinda Childs at MoMA 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The real life Ginsburg, watching herself being parodied on the small screen, collapsed into a fit of uncontrolled giggling that is quite startling to watch in the movie. 'A tremendous legacy': capturing the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on film 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

What caused the startling drop in crime statistics in the 1990s? Freakonomics: The Dismal Science Brightens Up on Screen 2010-10-02T06:30:00Z

Trains are the key to that startling, timey-wimey reveal, and of course, her transportation to elsewhere. Ready for “Russian Doll”? Here are 5 things to watch out for 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Echoes” initially took me a few tries to get through simply because the episode is so bleak and startling, but the content is incredibly important. The 10 must-listen podcast episodes of the decade 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

The judges called him “a profoundly original American poet whose work embraces the coexistence of comedy and tragedy, exploring the intersection of high poetic style and an often startling vernacular.” Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Moonlight – a film of startling beauty and originality – is simply too bold to win. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

In "The Guest," such a seemingly innocuous setup sets off a startling chain of events that involves much mayhem, a top-secret military program and a finale set amid an elaborate high school Halloween haunted-house maze. 'The Guest' filmmakers Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett going beyond horror 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her accessibility belies the achievement of a startling, deeply humane vision. ‘Map: Collected and Last Poems,’ by Wislawa Szymborska 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Her story is being told in a fashion that is, like most of her startling 1970s surroundings, foreign to her. Umbrella by Will Self – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z

Mr. Tcherniakov, as it happens, directed a startling, riveting “The Tsar’s Bride” last year in Berlin. ‘The Tsar’s Bride,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

I knew instantly that I was going to write a book about it, which was startling, given that before this, I hadn’t been planning to write any book at all. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z

There’s a startling scene early in this movie between the lead character, Joan, and her husband, Robin. Review: ‘Year by the Sea’ in Search of Answers to Life’s Riddles 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

In a startling break from academy custom, the telecast was used as an overt promo for some coming movies. Onstage Slap Rattles Oscars, Before ‘CODA’ Triumphs 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

In Florida the previous year, Baron had made a stubborn, startling push for another important truth: the actual ballot numbers, via independent recount, in the Bush vs. “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

It was also startling to be in the mosh pit at one band’s show shoulder-to-shoulder with members of other bands. The Rock Boat: Booze, Battles and 32 Bands 2014-03-14T16:53:54Z

The design, by Tim Yip, best known for his work on the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” is as important as the dance here, and it meshes the virtual and the real to startling ends. Dance Review: ?Desh? From Akram Khan at Sadler?s Wells - Review 2011-10-08T00:37:35Z

An utterly wacky graphic novel written entirely in palindromes — words or phrases that read the same forward and backward — it is packed with oddball characters, startling dialogue and surprising settings. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a funny surprise, but the more startling part is that you care what happens to him. Critic’s Notebook: TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, Improv Artists 2014-01-31T22:36:46Z

Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” upsetting to those who thought Michael Keaton was due, but not startling. Oscar Night: Hollywood’s Truest Self 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Burden continued to amuse the heavens, and himself, with multifarious benign but startling feats of wit and engineering—far too many, each highly specific, for a few examples not to belie. The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

In it, the plunge into inner lives proves as startling as driving into a deep freeway lake that wasn’t there a minute ago. A gamble pays off: Long Beach Opera transports 1692 'Fairy Queen' to modern-day Vegas 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

There was also no denying the startling, high-voltage appeal of Mr. Fierstein, whom I first saw as a teenager Off Off Broadway, when he was playing the heroine of a raunchy romp called “Flatbush Tosca.” ArtsBeat: A Flickering 'Torch Song Trilogy' in London 2012-06-13T15:21:13Z

It’s humid and pretty and full of reverb, as in “Potato Chips,” where the regular swipings of a note up the neck are the most startling elements in the song. Review: Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles Demonstrate a Low-Flame Curiosity 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Hence the startling, skewed metaphors he is given to: "I'd never been in a police car, and for some reason I felt as though I'd been swallowed by a dog." Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z

His clothes are nothing startling, but cute and casual little dresses with a modicum of pleats and pin tucks to give them a contemporary feel. Front Row: Things Start to Stir at the Blass House 2009-12-17T17:23:17Z

The waning hours of Election Day, and the day that followed, were startling times for comedy. Is Late-Night Political Comedy Useless? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

And yet, in this startling novel, even that distance between Charlie and Helen is moving. The Mysteries of Friendship, Illuminated by Spooky Quantum Physics 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

New research from Allen Downey, a computer scientist at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, shows a startling correlation between the rise of the Internet and the decline of religious affiliation in the United States. New study says Internet could be why Americans are losing their religion 2014-04-04T19:30:00Z

To switch from these still-fresh memories to the situation today is startling. In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z

It was a startling disappearing act, one for the ages. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

On this sometimes startling collection of tough, dreamy, cloudy-sky country and chamber pop, Ms. Mize deploys her tools sparingly but effectively. Playlist: Songs for the Feet, And Even the Heart 2010-10-08T15:49:00Z

Others, such as a gold lamé suit and startling platform boots, recall Sir Jimmy Savile's exuberant stage persona. Jimmy Savile's treasures put up for auction 2012-06-28T17:27:14Z

Until, that is, I happened upon the National Theatre’s startling, brilliantly realized new production of Bulgakov’s “The White Guard,” running in repertory in the Lyttelton auditorium through July 7. Review: Howard Davies Play Explores Ukraine's Troubles in Wake of 1917 Revolution 2010-04-13T11:49:00Z

The most startling moment involves her father, the Rev CL Franklin, who addresses the congregation and then, while Aretha is actually singing, he rushes forward to mop her brow. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Its poster for "The Town," Ben Affleck's new movie about a gang of Boston bank robbers, featured a startling image: gun-wielding, masked nuns in front of an armored van. After risky campaign, "Town" courts Oscar voters 2010-09-21T13:28:00Z

Plot and character mattered less to him than the ripe bit of regional speech, the fraught incident, the startling metaphor, the ingeniously shaped sentence. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

Mr. Hoffman is up first, with Robert De Niro introducing a collage that reminds you of Mr. Hoffman’s startling versatility. | Kennedy Center Honors: Kennedy Center Honors Letterman and Led Zeppelin on CBS 2012-12-25T22:27:19Z

Among them is his doctor, there to make his daily examination, who comes to the startling conclusion that Packer has "an asymmetrical prostate". Cosmopolis – review 2012-06-16T23:05:37Z

I’ve known the springs since the 1990s, and the change is startling. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The artist’s portraits are distinctive for their colors, which are unusual, daringly combined and still startling. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It seems noteworthy that Robert Rosenblum’s startling “1900: Art at the Crossroads,” a revisionist juxtaposition of modernist and academic painting, opened at the Guggenheim Museum exactly 10 years ago this fall. Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century 2010-03-26T16:33:00Z

In 2009, he made his Carnegie Hall debut in his new, startling regalia and was praised by The New York Times for a "rich, varied tone and technical facility" and grace. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z

It was legitimately startling, for a viewer accustomed to endless self-glorification, to see an Olympic host nation use some of its time to address their own culpability in global suffering. NBC Missed the Point of the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

During curtain calls, it was startling to see the fearless Lady Macbeth vanish, and Ms. Netrebko, all smiles, look girlishly happy as she waved to her fans. In the Met’s ‘Macbeth,’ Anna Netrebko as the Scheming Wife 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The unexpected modulations and primeval yodeling of the earthy Gurian songs are startling. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

Holten's take on the ending is creepy, though not as startling or morally complex as Mozart's original. Mozart: Don Giovanni Juan DVD – review 2012-12-12T16:55:06Z

And he made another startling discovery: an alarming sharp rise in the overall levels since the Industrial Age, when humans started burning coal, oil and gas for energy. 'Cosmos' recap: Climate change is explained in 'The World Set Free' 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Carrie is comforting Thelma, whose husband has just left for military service, and the older woman makes the startling confession that she never loved her own husband, though she admired him. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z

Also startling, she said, was that the student journalists were afraid of being stopped for curfew violations, though they all were older than 17. How colleges are teaching Ferguson, Trayvon, etc. 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

When the store opened, it made a startling impact, with a style in direct contrast to the country’s fashion history and its couture houses. Shopping frenzy as Parisians say adieu to Colette, cutting-edge fashion store 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Only artists who had been “whitened”, or turned “pop”, could “cross over” – notions that seem startling in the more enlightened era of Beyoncé. Nick Broomfield on his damning Whitney Houston film: 'She had very little control over her life' 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

This mildly sarcastic retelling of “Rapunzel” seems a little too knowing for its own good, but every so often the directors, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, unleash an image of startling beauty. Video: 3-D Movies Are Taking a New Path 2011-09-09T15:00:00Z

It's a startling film, a poetic vision of teenagers romping in the French countryside that dissolves into something nightmarish. Alicia Duffy: A film of one's own 2010-05-16T20:35:00Z

The most startling thing about the new breed of heroin addict is both their age and social status. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z

They inspire him, he said, with their startling freedom and poise. On the Runway Blog: Ari Seth Cohen's Portraits of Older Women 2012-06-15T00:01:16Z

Unraveling this tragedy, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as its startling aftermath. The Carpetbagger: From Sundance, a Competition Slate That Could Be Called Accessible 2012-11-28T21:00:48Z

The aridness of Lanai, in dry contrast to the lushness of Kauai or Maui, may be stark and startling, but it suggests the peculiar history and charms of this small island west of Maui. Exploring Lanai, Hawaii, Rough Roads to Resorts 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The effect is startling, spontaneous; it doesn’t look like he’s even seen the ballet before much less danced it. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

A series of revelations culminates in several startling confrontations and, yes, more death. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Perry’s first feature, “Impolex,” a surreal, bare-bones adaptation of a snippet of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” it shows startling formal ambition. Movie Review: ?The Color Wheel,? Directed by Alex Ross Perry 2012-05-17T21:26:59Z

This is no longer startling music as it was when new, as Zorn is now a one-man musical factory and major figure. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

A quick Web search of “microwave dangers” brought up some startling claims and concerns. How safe is your microwave?

His rough, improvised surfaces almost invariably conveyed a startling openness and vulnerability. An Appraisal: An Artist of Selective Abandon 2011-07-06T18:34:22Z

It’s a startling imbalance, but it is effectively the status quo in the small group of globally renowned high-culture institutions historically charged with preserving and protecting the art of fashion. The Incredible Whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Last year, the young assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony made a startling debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

And the emotional effects are as startling, and confusing, as their visual counterparts. ‘Welcome to Marwen’ Review: Playing With Toys and Putting Away Childish Things 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Her voice dominates the album, often with grace and subtlety, but with startling power when needed. Hogan's 'Pain' is our pleasure 2012-05-18T15:12:00Z

Like “A Hard Day’s Night” — or, for that matter, Jean-Luc Godard’s contemporaneous films — “Don’t Look Back” retains a startling hold on the present tense. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z

It is startling, too, to learn the many ways immigration takes its toll on families. ‘The Far Away Brothers’ Breathes Vivid Life Into Immigration Issues 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Miro found that his life in Paris allowed him to understand his Catalan roots, that formative light that had seemed so oppressive, with a new and startling clarity. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z

In an industry of accomplished makeup artists, Ms. McGrath is the last word on the beautiful — or startling modern — face. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z

This script dignifies Pip, offers the whale’s point of view and, most startling of all, invents scenes for Captain Ahab’s wife, who is only fleetingly mentioned in the novel and never named. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z

Some of the best treats provided by Baxter’s delightful book are his startling asides. France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Though it's among the better big-budget franchise movies of the summer, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a mixed bag — an odd blend of silly popcorn entertainment and sometimes startling poignancy. 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' evolves into a digital showcase 2011-08-03T23:37:04Z

Despite the Glanville affair rumors and a startling “Housewives” moment when Phypers appeared to threaten to “crush” Richards’s hand as they exited a party, Richards maintains her marriage is rock solid. The unbelievable believability of Denise Richards 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Her description of her sunburned mother in a bikini, “bags of white pus forming on her sternum, bones for days,” is especially startling. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

At the end of the novel, his author seeks to make explicit her intent in a startling afterword: What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

But lethargy and resignation suddenly give way to moments of startling originality. DVDs: Buster Keaton?s ?Steamboat Bill, Jr.? on DVD 2010-07-04T05:09:00Z

There is something startling to the way Mitchell writes, particularly in this period – there is a keenness and a candour, a cool, crisp clarity to her lyrics. Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll 2011-02-17T23:08:00Z

The startling conclusion at which they had all arrived, in different ways, was this: that the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

A startling revelation occurs in Open City’s final pages when Moji, the sister of a childhood friend from Nigeria, invites Julius to a party. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

Their relationships are defined in startling physical details, especially in how they touch one another. Review: In ‘Hamlet,’ Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

My first glimpse of Andy Warhol made me begin to look at my life — and my surroundings — in a startling new way. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z

In that ordinary realm, the movie’s premise—a person gaining the ability to shrink at will—becomes all the more startling and gleeful. "Ant-Man" Is a Superhero Movie for Skeptics 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

At Hell Creek, Mont., for the discovery of a “Triceratops graveyard,” startling evidence that Triceratops was a pack species. When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Goulian’s response to all this was to regress, to crawl inside himself by putting on a startling front. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z

Watching Boyz N the Hood, 25 years after the devastating film about growing up in South Central Los Angeles shook up cinema, it’s startling to realize that it came from a first-time film-maker. John Singleton reflects on Boyz N the Hood: 'I didn't know anything' 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

It bumps along in patches and meanders in others, but when it gathers steam becomes an unforgettable force of startling emotional intelligence. One More for the Road: Mary Pols? Top 10 Films of 2011 2011-12-30T14:20:36Z

So claimed Francis Bacon, who said a lot on the subject of painting, his own and others', and frequently with startling precision. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z

Where Meacham breaks new and startling ground is reporting how needlessly harsh Bush 41 thought the rhetoric was, including Bush 43’s characterization in 2002 of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an “axis of evil.” Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The startling violence of his “Così” in New York has been muted in Los Angeles. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It opens with startling, crisp orchestral chords that prod the flute into scurrying figures, quickly taken up by other instruments. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z

That’s why it’s startling that he has now emerged as one of its most scathing critics. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

I’ve been only starting to process my trauma with my therapist and uncovered some really startling revelations about myself. I lash out at my boyfriend 2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

Matthew Lloyd's fine production is from the beginning controlled, suggestive and startling. Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

I don’t, like, check where it fits on the Appropriate Topics Scale or whatever.” — that this actress’s own poise at a recent interview was startling at first. Sarah Steele, Star of LCT3’s ‘Slowgirl’ 2012-06-29T01:00:26Z

Few opening scenes are more startling than that of Sion Sono’s surreal shocker, in which 54 schoolgirls cheerfully link hands and throw themselves under an oncoming train. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The poet’s latest collection responds with high art and startling presence to the vantage offered by mortality. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a startling incident to read about, all the more so in the #MeToo era, when Ms. Dodson’s seemingly cavalier attitude has the ring of heresy. You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

There is much that startles in “Skeleton Keys,” Brian Switek’s cultural history of bone, not least that bone is startling at all. Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Beyond the benefit to museums, this tax maneuver has produced a startling pipeline of art moving across the United States as collectors cleverly — and legally — exploit the tax codes. Art collectors find a tax break on museum walls 2014-04-12T23:11:11Z

"She gave a startling, most dramatic and effective interpretation which could jolt an audience out of its complacency anywhere," he marvelled. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z

It’s a psychological thriller, a scathing political satire, a powerful and upsetting family drama, a dark comedy and a work of magnificent landscape cinematography and startling pictorial intensity. “Leviathan”: A tragic, ironic masterpiece from Putin’s Russia 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Yes, “Lebroba” is amazing in that it refuses to let me grow tired of it, but no, it isn’t amazing in the sweeping, startling, bravura-stroked ways that usually shout “amazing!” Perspective | What is Sudoku jazz? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The picture is as open as “Olympia” is blunt, and Manet captures it all with indefinite, flowing brush strokes that give it a startling freshness. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Still, the show floats a startling idea: Warhol made some of his best paintings during these years. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z

There is a startling moment in the soulful Mexican drama “Dos Estaciones” when it shifts from the protagonist to a secondary character. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Against these sweeping shapes of light and shadow, the delicacy of Mary’s diminutive hand and face creates a startling emotional fragility. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

His olive complexion, the unwanted result of a vacation in Hawaii with his extended family, was startling — not unlike seeing Santa Claus, if he suddenly lost 80 pounds. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

In compressed, sinuous lines, it wound its way to the aching words “The inflated heart/pumps out, the tenor kiss,/tenor love” by way of a startling interlude: Michael S. Harper, Poet With a Jazz Pulse, Dies at 78 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

What’s more startling here is your willingness to alienate a friend by refusing to apologize for accidentally hurting her feelings. My Brother Hasn’t Buried Our Mother’s Ashes Yet, and I’m Mad 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

“Modernistic” was the pivot, displaying Moran as a musician of startling virtuosity and breadth. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

As we moved toward the door, the surgeon gave me a startling nudge in the ribs with his elbow. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

“In the wake of a startling late run ascension to the number one spot, ‘Jumanji’ continues to energize the early 2018 box office marketplace while this weekend taking on a host of wide release newcomers.” Box Office: 'Jumanji' dominates MLK weekend, 'The Post' leads newcomer 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

Radical honesty and self-deprecation don’t make up for a startling lack of empathy. Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Others are transformed by being taken apart or joined with foreign objects to form startling hybrids. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The most startling moments in the set followed Mr. Ewart’s delivery of the line “This is our music” — as if to offer hard proof. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

One of the more startling bits of history revisited in the program is the military’s experiment with backpack-size nuclear weapons in the mid-1960s. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Still, he could console himself with the degree of loving research that had gone into Classic Rock's Motörhead special, which among its plethora of genuinely startling facts, dug up the first ever Motörhead interview. Mot?rhead: The W?rld Is Yours ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:01Z

Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Glenn Kenny called it “a near-virtuoso work, a feast of emotion, nuance and beauty, and a startling feature directing debut.” Blitz Bazawule Is Building Bridges Between Worlds 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“That was very startling, to see this young girl get up there and read this very personal, raw, edgy piece like that to this audience, with no apologies and no hesitations,” Talbot says. At 15, Daniela Shia-Sevilla’s writing has already wowed the literary community 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

A startling scene unfolds aboard the Kirk, a magnet for South Vietnamese helicopter pilots fleeing with their families. Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

He’s primarily a portrait painter whose startling renditions of his subjects’ clothes and backdrops seem to point the way toward Abstract Expressionism. At the Frye: the curious case of Nicolai Fechin 2013-03-07T20:43:04Z

There is a startling contrast between the drawing-room comedy of the interior scenes and Renoir's superbly dynamic documentary-style realism in the Paris streets outside: crowded, bustling, cosmopolitan. Boudu Saved from Drowning ? review 2010-12-16T22:42:00Z

Rather than mainstreaming the material, he makes it more startling to look at, with deformed creatures and human oddities strutting their scary stuff in the show's opening number, "Come Look at the Freaks." Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

In one of the play’s more startling images, when we return for a final visit with the black O’Mallerys, we find Barbara bound to a tree, duct tape covering her mouth. Review: ‘Barbecue,’ an Intervention With Love, Insults and Whiskey 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Weather Alive” is an album of meditative grace and constant questioning, of elaborate constructions and startling intimacy. How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

That they are surrounded by wealth, by advantage, does nothing to mitigate their underlying loneliness, which evokes a startling empathy. In 'The Invaders,' an unlikely family tries to fit into the Connecticut country club life 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The most startling, least promotional segment of the Grammy Awards opened the show. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

What for generations has looked like an accident in a paint factory now emerges as an advanced study in eccentric, midcentury color theory, with startling combinations of gray, grape, rose, turquoise and chartreuse. DVD: Marilyn Monroe, Lushly Rendered 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z

He is sitting up in his nightshirt stitching the most startling quilt. Quilts 1700-2010 | Art review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

It’s a change as startling as the shift from tan to beige. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson are back in action — and still ridiculous 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Walsh's 1996 breakthrough stage piece, the startling "Disco Pigs," literally hits the ground running in Sound Theatre Company's alternately intense and tender new production. 'Disco Pigs': Creepy, codependent teens' twisted road to adulthood 2012-09-26T18:43:03Z

And in one of the most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. Gaza: A Cartoon History 2010-03-06T05:10:00Z

But, alas, we all have to get back to the grind eventually, or, as Schmitz describes the startling return to reality after her Zen vacation, to “sensory overload in the worst way possible.” The endless, impossible search for just one conversation that doesn’t mention Trump 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Although she never loses sight of the startling fear of tumbling into the unknown, Ms. Amos also contends that it offers a possibility worth celebrating: that of breaking free. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Stabbed out of the air, loud ones had startling fullness and clarity. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

But hardly anything is formally or technically startling, and there’s a monotonous sameness to the fictionalized realism running throughout. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z

Most important, Rogen understands the value of the unexpected laugh, when a sentence takes such a startling turn that the reader can only cackle. Review | Seth Rogen’s hilarious memoir ‘Yearbook’ earns its superlatives 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The lack of a traditional plot is buoyed by the book’s startling pace, which makes for a fresh and invigorating read. Review | A mysterious journey to the middle of the Earth — and the center of the self 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

It’s only until the startling overhead shot that we see how gruesome this is. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

With the Penhall play, the reason was that the play is, in more than one sense, a concept piece: set in a maternity ward and beginning with a startling, physically impossible visual image. Spoiler alert: the tough task of keeping a play's plot secret 2012-06-26T10:59:19Z

The one startling thing about Weisz’s appearance today is that, without much in the way of cosmetics, she looks easily 10 years younger than she is. Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

The newest, “WTC 9/11,” a meditation on the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, is a startling departure for Mr. Reich. Music Review: Four Ensembles Unite for a Contemporary Composer?s Big Birthday 2011-05-01T20:57:46Z

Photograph: Central Picture News It's a startling thought that Britain's regional rep movement owes its existence to groceries. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z

At times, Mr. Herzog’s imagination leaps beyond even the more startling speculations of his subjects. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

In this life of the pop composer who was called “American music,” Kaplan argues that Berlin’s work represented “modernism on the hoof: startling formal innovation smuggled into a seemingly banal idiom.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

To walk Fifth Avenue north from 34th Street to Central Park this season is to discover a startling paucity of merchants making more than a token nod to the holidays in their window displays. We Need a Miracle on 34th Street 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In a mildly startling development, it was announced earlier this month that Noseda would go to the National Symphony, which ranks higher than the New York Philharmonic on no one’s list. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The serving sizes are different, but in Europe, they’ve already done the math, and the number is almost startling: Each serving is, well, 56.7 percent sugar. A Nutella quest: Imported vs. domestic

The metamorphosis is so startling that Mr. Christiansen now considers “Madonna and Child” among the Met’s most important Italian Renaissance paintings. Inside Art: At Brookyn Museum, African-American Artworks Pre-1945 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z

For an Apple product, it’s a startling failure of engineering. Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

She says her “Sleeping in the Forest” deviates from the startling ending of Oliver’s poem. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

His transformation from innocent to avenger in "Bellflower" is startling, echoing that of Gibson in "Mad Max," a movie Aiden and Woodrow dwell upon. 'Bellflower': Promising drama undone by mayhem, pretension 2011-09-01T19:16:05Z

During his 20-year career he has tended to do something startling — if not shocking — and then lie low, reappearing after a decent interval. Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It would be easy to take David Attenborough’s startling odysseys into the natural world for granted. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The Penguin Book of Migration Literature,” edited by Dohra Ahmad, has the startling distinction of being the first global anthology of migration literature, according to its publisher. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

I am not sure it added anything, though the effect of the opening rumble as West's voice died away was startling. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z

Since then, her startling command and improbably mature delivery have made her a cause célèbre among fans of traditional jazz, and landed her on stages with some of the music’s finest improvisers. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The startling testimony faded to the background - until now. Police and press: ties under scrutiny in Britain 2011-07-14T17:33:08Z

Try Foot Locker, Not Nicholas Kirkwood IF you are going to charge four figures for shoes, as a startling number of designers are doing these days, it behooves you to frame them as artwork. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - Nicholas Kirkwood on Washington Street 2012-05-30T15:41:38Z

Barely visible against the milky grey sky, their startling beauty is wasted. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

To prep for the wealthy, intentionally oblivious suburbanite whose life unravels at a startling pace after her husband dies, Britton watched “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” In ‘Dear Edward,’ Connie Britton Embraces Her Inner ‘Real Housewife’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The imagery, in scenes that always unfold slowly, is truly startling, particularly given that the film is almost 90 years old. Review: In ‘Moana With Sound,’ Island Songs and the Crash of Waves 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The Modern’s “Gauguin: Metamorphoses” manages to do just that — and with a combination of delicacy and quiet that is almost startling, given the bold colors and compositions of his well-known Post-Impressionist paintings. Art Review: ‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses’ at MoMA Goes Beyond Paintings 2014-03-13T19:24:47Z

It is startling to learn of the death of the distinguished American conductor Lorin Maazel, who died, on Sunday, at the age of eighty-four. Lorin Maazel: The Man Who Knew Too Much 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Flynn’s idea for Nick’s biggest secret will be, for some readers, the most startling detail in a book that is full of terrific little touches. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z

Even so, “Fed Up” arrives at some startling and provocative conclusions, and is well worth seeing even if you think you understand this issue. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z

No closure was more startling than that of the Revel, which cost $2.4 billion to erect and took only two years to topple. The sweet scent of the suburban American casino 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Transferring to the Lyric Hammersmith theater in London after an acclaimed run in Manchester last year, “Fatherland,” which runs through June 23, is a startling and exhilarating show. Journeys Home to Find the Meaning of Fatherhood 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

And that led to startling breakthroughs and a level of immersion we haven’t seen before. 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

By 11 p.m., new election-night options were even more freewheeling — and, with GOP candidate Donald Trump demonstrating startling strength at the polls, these shows shared a certain mordant tone. Election coverage a bit too serious? TV had lighter options 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

On Monday there will be another startling sight: two zebras posed on a snowy mountaintop set against a brilliant blue sky. Inside Art: Whitney Museum Announces Biennial Plans 2012-11-29T20:45:41Z

In a startling image taken by photographer Francesco Malavolta and shared with Fox News Digital on Monday, a row of strollers is shown placed on the platform of a Polish train station. As Ukraine's moms flee to Poland amid war, they're greeted by gifts of baby strollers 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

This startling series of shows explores the twists and turns of a murderous psychopath and a brain tumour patient each colliding with archaic diagnostics, obscure scientific remedies and sci-fi inspired technology. Events picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:16:00Z

It can be startling to realize just how many roads lead back to Vertov, who straddled the expressive peak of silent cinema and the inchoate excitement of the early sound era. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z

Then something enormously startling happened: The opening act appeared, snarling white rappers from New York City. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z

Just as startling is the fact that, in breaking free of the confines of a four-walls existence, most Animal Crossing players find themselves racing willingly and headlong into mundanity. Cute Dress. How Many Bells Did You Pay? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

His work is critical of the world … but at the core of his work, there’s a startling joy.” Hammer Museum gala: Where Aloe Blacc, Paul McCarthy, Julia Roberts cross paths 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Pip becomes an Indian village boy whose encounter with an escaped convict leads to a startling change in his life, lived out against a backdrop of Indian caste and English class obsessions. This week's new theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

So the truly startling thing about Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve fiasco is that she planned to perform “Emotions” at all. Mariah Carey Smiles and Glitters Through a Television Fiasco 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Oh, and the reworked version added the now-famous nude scene at the end of the first act, startling for Broadway at the time, during which assorted cast members briefly stood naked. Michael Butler, Who Brought ‘Hair’ to Broadway, Dies at 95 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Produced to his specifications by professional mannequin makers in painted fiberglass with glass eyes, these works permitted alterations of size and scale as a means of startling the viewer. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Bruno Collet’s “Memorable,” a story of dementia told in clay animation, is startling. ‘The 2020 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Nothing to Laugh About 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

A startling contrast, indeed, to our next destination, Nayara Springs Resort, on a highway near Arenal Volcano National Park, in central Costa Rica. Luxury amid nature in safe Costa Rica 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

A glance at the signal movie moments of the past 12 months reveals a startling number of instances when the real world intersected, and sometimes collided head-on, with cinema in new and confounding ways. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

She brings what we might think of as mainstream and marginalized voices into one dialogue, creating a book that’s startling, very funny and the first of its kind. “‘Dallas Buyers Club’ drives me crazy”: Ariel Schrag on chronicling queer life through a straight man’s eyes 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Even more startling, 45 percent bought a book after watching the trailer. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z

A decade later he shook the musical capital up with the “Eroica,” his third symphony, and one more startling than any before it. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Woodman used her self-portraits to disconcerting and startling effect with the elements of self and object often merging. I visited the Uffizi gallery at 17, and was awestruck. Now it's exhibiting my art? 2010-12-19T00:07:08Z

In a 1960s series, he photographed women gripping mirrors that obscured their faces so that their other body parts were reflected in startling, sometimes grotesque arrangements. How many legs in this photo? The strange, surreal photography of Heather Rasmussen 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

That is assuredly what a lot of people are doing lately, as many venture forth after 16 months of hibernation with a startling degree of license about what passes for street wear. Suddenly It’s Bare Season 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The gents pose in a startling variety of crisp, supple fabrics, whose glamour or grittiness echoes Jacob’s foretelling of their destinies in Genesis. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Ebert was never less than honest about his health issues and his facial disfigurement – but to see it up close, on an obviously ill and vulnerable person, is startling and at first highly distressing. Chaz Ebert and director Steve James on Roger Ebert’s legacy 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Silence amid a roomful of people giving set speeches — how startling and confounding. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

It was self-loathing that first made Gosling's name with his startling portrayal of a Jewish boy who joins an anti-semitic fascist group in his 2001 film debut, The Believer. "I didn't set out to be 'the indie guy'" 2011-01-09T00:16:00Z

“It’s so startling to me, everything that’s happened,” Mr. Finn said. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Forward judges expressed their hope that her win this evening for her 12th collection, Place, would find her "startling, powerful" poetry a wider readership in the UK. Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize 2012-10-01T19:35:14Z

The final scenes include a startling revelation about the house that undermines Jimmie’s entire motivation, leaving the story arc as unfinished as that cake. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

It also features, however briefly, various startling images — some of the women move from front to back with a jerkiness and a frantic clapping of hands that never actually meet, for instance. Dance COLEctive shows it hasn't gone soft 2011-01-21T16:07:32Z

It is startling to think now of how early on Tucker was defined, in the press, by her sex appeal and her offstage life. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Cold Barrel Zero” delivers clever twists and startling surprises, the full story coming into focus only when all of the parts are assembled. ‘Cold Barrel Zero’: A fast-paced thriller with a final scene set in D.C. 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

After his mother’s death Mr. Block asks his father on camera if he misses his wife, and the answer is quick and startling. She?s Leaving Home; Grab a Camera 2010-10-24T02:23:00Z

Fans familiar with Joseph's richly colored, dance-centric narrative from "Until the Quiet Comes" will recognize many of the techniques, though they are deployed in startling new forms.  Kendrick Lamar film to debut at Sundance Next at Ace Hotel 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

We leave with this startling image of our deforming modernity, and blink our way into the light. Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: the real art underground 2011-03-17T23:00:01Z

On a July morning with a startling blue sky and a determined sun, we set off from the front porch of Asa Herrgard, ready to bushwhack for our meal. In Sweden, a DIY dining adventure 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

He decided to document the “train church” over a few weeks in 1986, taking a series of luminous photographs that are startling in their rawness and immediacy. Train Church 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“They were banal and startling, full and empty of meaning. Here were the techniques of Land Art, medieval construction, marketing and promotion, architectural exhibition and the new nativism rolled uncomfortably if somehow inevitably into one.” Essential Arts & Culture: Inside the Bonaventure, along the border and a Pacific Standard Time proposal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The movie remains one of the most startling and moving animated films ever. ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ Review: A Pioneering Animated Classic 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

A tale of two African-American sisters saddled with bloody revenge, it is a startling, sprawling work that borrows from Afropunk, epic poetry and classic Westerns and includes some disturbing scenes of violence. A Safer Home for Dangerous Plays 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

More enlightening — and sometimes startling — were the physical and emotional changes Roose observed. ‘Young Money’: the grueling world of Wall Street analysts 2014-04-02T23:45:47Z

It's a real say what? moment; while everyone knows money can't buy happiness, the notion that Saint Laurent, lover of beauty, needed a refuge from his more monumental possessions is startling. L'Amour Fou: Remembering Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

Though I have to say it was startling to see myself in Us magazine for some reason. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

We who love the form have been denied it for so long that being close to it again feels like a startling freedom — even from behind a mask. Perspective | A Broadway musical on the National Mall opens hearts to memories of 9/11 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

After looking at photos of other people’s snow-covered streets on Twitter and Instagram all day, it is both startling and rather comforting to venture outside. Following the Record Snow in Boston 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her latest appearance adds a welcome grace note to a collection filled with startling, sometimes unsettling pleasures. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Or, in what may be the most startling example, following a giant porcupine as it lumbers through the streets of Rotterdam. Growing a Generation of Movie-Loving Global Citizens 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

It can be startling to hear the intimacy of what Baran and her fellow-reporters are able to glean, especially because of the sensitivity of the case, racial and otherwise. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But, while startling, it is not clear if the incident was serious enough for Alice Lee to lose trust in her younger colleague. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Despite a deeply painful and abusive relationship with his mother, and a near lifelong suppression of desire, Chiron owns his every breath and negotiates with his mind in startling yet relatable ways. Black History Month viewing guide: the best new releases to see in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Rapper Kanye West made some startling comments, notably describing slavery as a choice and gave a rambling speech at the White House. Successes, scandals and send-offs: 2018's top showbiz stories 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

I know that’s startling for some people to hear — we are conditioned to speak about abortion with reverence and a bit of melancholy, if we speak about it at all. After my abortion I felt relieved — and I’m in the majority 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Although the judge did say he found the star's fees "startling" and "somewhat surprising". Rihanna wins Topshop T-shirt ban 2013-09-26T11:00:14Z

But the revelation may be startling to Beatles fans, who have devoted their lives to interpreting every lyric, recording flourish and photograph presented by their band. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Over the fireplace, where a Gainsborough portrait once hung, a bright red abstract canvas by Reinhart makes for a somewhat startling centerpiece. In London, Embassy Residence Is Showcase for American Art 2011-02-28T21:27:00Z

Officialdom's attitude to the practice of child migration sounds startling enough to contemporary ears. Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z

The trove helped Bird pull back layers of secrecy in Ames' life and reveal a startling series of covert CIA operations and spycraft. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But Vacation is a startling new echelon of excellence. Download these: songs by Brooklyn-via-Tacoma band Vacation 2011-05-12T17:51:15Z

“You looking for Cyn Studios?” asked one of the men, startling me. The dominatrix class that unchained me 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

The Wachowskis are routinely applauded for their ambitions, yet it’s startling how inattentive they can be to certain filmmaking fundamentals, like two shots. Mila Kunis’s Dizzying Orbit in ‘Jupiter Ascending’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Opposites Attract, Even Joy and Melancholy It’s startling to see a work of genius composed largely from movements as basic as walking, running, hopping, skipping, lying down and the like. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z

His images were themselves restless, seeking the chaotic, the startling, the moody, and the unsettling in his most personal work, the landscapes. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

It's a very simple idea that produces startling and fascinating results. A male-focused film industry is making women act up 2011-02-11T14:39:50Z

Happy/ambiguous/frustrating finale aside, it’s an undeniably brave and startling piece of work although it wasn’t always seen as such. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: The Lost Weekend 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Exploring the context of OJ Simpson’s rise and fall, Edelman constructed a startling treatise on race, gender, celebrity and capitalism itself. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Together they encounter cyclones, illness, French bureaucracy, tinned Spam, an unhinged stalker, and a startling development. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

All this went into his journal and coalesced into ‘‘This Train,’’ a startling theater piece that had its debut in Chicago and is scheduled to open in Brooklyn this spring. T Magazine: Bound for Glory 2011-03-08T21:29:59Z

Elsewhere, the cast display some startling physical feats. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

The transformation may be startling — but his decision to make it public shouldn’t be. The forgotten history of Bruce Jenner: How the all-American hero of the 1970s ended up here 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

It is a poem of “startling, seductive beauty,” he writes, yet one that is also recognized as a bold work of philosophy, one that helped recalibrate thinking when it began to recirculate during the Renaissance. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z

I missed the novel’s provocative ambiguity and its startling flashes of humor. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z

What Bird brings out, with startling clarity, are the divisions among the defeated. The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-13T18:00:02Z

And like Reagan, he made a startling career switch, using that straight-arrow technique and plausible manner for something different: in Nielsen's case comedy. The strange screen life of Ronald Reagan 2011-02-09T14:26:55Z

What makes the scene so stunning isn’t how startling and bloody it is. I’m a Grown Man, and ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Me Scream 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

With startling honesty they examine the friction between individuals and society, as well as exposing the secret collusion between love and property, and their ironic humour is often a reflex of despair. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

The Hovenring is one of the most startling pieces of cycle infrastructure in the book, taking the form of a floating 70m-wide ring, suspended on tensile wires from a single pylon. Paths of glory: what might a cycle-friendly city look like? 2013-07-15T15:40:31Z

When she did, she often returned with startling and revealing images. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Also, her piece on what Game of Thrones means to her is just a startling piece of writing. Game of Thrones finale: who will sit on the Iron Throne? Follow the action – live 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

And their ability to articulate their frustration is startling. The Girls Fighting Stereotypes in the World of Scholastic Chess 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

This new building doubled the Pinacothèque's exhibition space and introduced its "permanent collection," some 100 works on long-term loan, including pieces by Picasso, Delacroix and Renoir, many of them displayed in imaginative, sometimes startling juxtapositions. T Magazine: Succès Fou 2012-10-03T23:02:54Z

The show takes on motherhood, sex, money troubles and mental illness with a startling honesty. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘SMILF’ and ‘Cash Cab’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

She seemed equally startling, at first, for her keening voice and her shaven head. 10 Essential Songs by Sinead O’Connor 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Delicious to watch and listen to, the film was elevated by Mbatha-Raw’s honest, physically startling performance. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

Then Atwater found something so startling it convinced him he was on the right track. ‘Full Rip 9.0’: major Pacific Northwest quake, major shocker 2013-06-13T22:51:16Z

My chest stayed regulation size, but the room seemed to keep getting bigger during the 70 minutes of this two-character drama, which is acted with startling freshness by Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z

It needs a jolt, a startling image, an arresting voice, a key change, a personal revelation. Battle of the Sexes at the iHeartRadio Concert at Madison Square Garden 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

And if there was one startling aspect it was that Mueller looked so regular, so relatable. Perspective | Pictures of Robert Mueller tell the story of a man who is finally free 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Other collisions of art and politics are more startling and fortuitous. In London, Back-Stabbing and Conniving (Onstage and Off) 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

He was praised for his bold and startling rhymes and for the dynamism of his rhythms. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z

In Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, under Andris Nelsons, its evocation of misty distances was startling. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The plot’s repetitive rhythms are eased, though, by Rohl’s startling commitment to her character’s pathology — a long, money-grubbing con of begging, borrowing and online fund-raising. ‘White Lie’ Review: In Sickness and in Stealth 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Light becomes one drama after another: sometimes startling, often playful. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

When Life Starts to Unspool for a Passionate French Filmmaker The poignant, startling French film “The Father of My Children” opens with a whoosh of activity. | 'The Father of My Children': Mia Hansen-Love?s Drama of Family and Heartbreak 2010-05-27T22:02:00Z

Those films represented even the most unsavory aspects of their subjects with sometimes startling directness. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most startling, her choreography will be on Broadway next year in a new Ivo van Hove production of “West Side Story.” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

But what the country lacks in gemological richness, it makes up in a startling variety of gems mined coast to coast, from Oregon sunstone to Maine tourmaline. Gems Made in the U.S.A. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

In rehearsals last week, the results were startling; the music didn't sound like Adams, in the best possible sense. John Adams's earthquake musical gets a welcome shaking down 2010-07-07T16:29:00Z

That leads industry observers to a startling conclusion: Movies that sell tickets in pairs do better than those that sell tickets one at a time. Box Office Weekend: An Old Dragon Rises to Nick Kick-Ass 2010-04-18T23:00:00Z

This time they started noticing a startling ubiquity of leaf green. Color of 2017? Pantone Picks a Spring Shade 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It's all about the record: From Me To You remains an authentic distillation of sheer euphoria, with powerful harmonies, strange chords, tricksy changes, bluesy vocals and the first appearance of those startling, camp "ooh"s. The best No 1 records: the Beatles – From Me To You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z

The author bops along with experts from Stanford, Cambridge, the University of Calgary, Middle East Technical University and other institutions, peppering them with questions we’d like to ask, and reveling in the occasionally startling answer. Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s startling how little anyone in the Prologue spends time addressing the baby Aurora, even though this is her christening party. Dance Review: David Hallberg at Bolshoi in ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-11-22T00:00:10Z

Some of its interviews are startling in their plain-spokenness, a rare thing in documentaries these days, when so many people, schooled by exposure to television, are savvy and guarded when on camera. ‘Little Hope Was Arson,’ a Documentary of Texas and Religion 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the very possibility that they might have done is startling in itself. Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z

But what happens next — the damage to Margot and others — is as startling to the reader as it is to her. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

All night, Costello was fooling around with the way he sang, messing with the timing, sometimes sounding out of step with the band, startling me. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Noemí’s snooping about the Doyles turns up some startling revelations, including their reliance on a special strain of mushroom that helps keep them healthy, strong and preternaturally powerful. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

During the final, intensely focussed moments of our gathering, a sentence formed in my mind, startling me: “You don’t have to do this; it does itself.” Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

And the dramatic oomph of the final act of “Médée” almost goes without saying: 200 years later, it’s still a startling depiction of Medea’s shifting emotions as she contemplates killing her children. Review: Opera Lafayette’s Potent Triumvirate of Daughter, Lover and Mother 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Marciano writes with such authority and storytelling virtuosity that incidents like these feel less like narrative contrivances than the sort of startling coincidences randomly tossed up by the wheel of life. Books of The Times: No Safe Harbor for Travelers in ‘The Other Language’ 2014-03-30T21:47:39Z

So, in contrast, “Borderland,” a new documentary series that begins on Sunday, is quite startling. The TV Watch: ‘Borderland’ Is to Debut on Al Jazeera America 2014-04-11T22:14:53Z

Dryer pitted the literalness of her paintings against thin, sometimes streaky applications of paint for results that are witty and startling, assertive yet suffused with a delicate, poetic atmosphere. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z

Coveting a Children’s Garden of Z’s Few preschoolers who watch the Sprout channel’s brilliant “Snooze-a-Thon” on Christmas Eve are likely to appreciate its startling genius as a piece of filmmaking. Critic’s Notebook: Sprout Channel’s ‘Snooze-a-Thon’ on Christmas Eve 2012-12-23T22:47:32Z

Synthesized sounds blended evocatively with a live and recorded soprano in this startling work, the intensity heightened by the surround-sound effect from multiple speakers. Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

In Monday’s performance of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” a single trumpeter took up position in a balcony of the auditorium, startling listeners with notes of anarchic exuberance. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

A single profanity, quite startling in context, and buckets of gore, less so. ‘Crimson Peak,’ a Guillermo del Toro Gothic Romance in High Bloody Style 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Every square inch of this movie feels so obsessed over that it’s startling how rapidly the Wachowskis breeze through all their sets and setups. Mila Kunis’s Dizzying Orbit in ‘Jupiter Ascending’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s one of those startling and rare celebrity memoirs that manage to be funny and touching and even inspirational, without making you want to hurl. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z

One startling sketch shows cottages and farmyards running the length of the Edgware Road, while another shows pretty ramshackle riverside cottages where Tate Britain now stands. Anarchy in the open air: Turner, Constable and pioneering landscapes 2013-07-16T15:17:36Z

Schlather handled the most lurid moments of “The Juniper Tree” with startling, Kabuki-like tableaux, and the casts worked energetically to bring out characterization. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Kluwe’s prose is also often startlingly beautiful — startling because he can swing from “Aching muscles roll and pop like beaded water on a skillet” to “skyway scrotum massacre” with the lazy ease of a pendulum. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

And yet, at least at one startling point, the musical resonates in a shivery-funny way with today’s America. Review: ‘Hadestown’ Reanimates a Well-Known Myth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

His attention here was on everything that wasn't "Classical," on the rhythms that don't always conform, the startling jumps in register that are a Prokofiev trait, the citric acid squirted into otherwise conventional harmony. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The suddenness of the change is startling – from 2000 to 2012 three of the big four British publishers were overseen by women. Bad week for women in publishing as two giants step down 2013-07-05T16:03:35Z

Wallace says it was startling to catch a glimpse of his hero in her youth. The radical power of ordinary Black life 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

If he does resort to long info-dumps, it's necessary in order to convey the depth and breadth of his startling future. is Brin's first novel in 10 years, and it's been well worth the wait. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2012-06-01T21:53:01Z

He’s not Cunningham, his dynamics are less startling than those on the film, and he does not inflect its movements as yet as if from vital need. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

All the same, it was startling how many designers during New York Fashion Week: Men’s fixed their sights on Lotusland. At New York Fashion Week: Men’s, California Was the Muse 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Marchers at the front of the crowd would suddenly turn down narrow side streets, startling tourists and forcing police to send officers on motor scooters to contain the crowd. Dozens arrested at N.Y. Occupy rally 2012-03-18T05:49:02Z

Meow Meow begins in the warm, welcoming light with a fiery rendition of Cole Porter's Too Darn Hot that takes a startling turn when it plunges us into complete darkness. Meow Meow's Little Match Girl – review 2012-12-20T13:10:26Z

Phoenix has been a turbulent screen presence for so many years that it is startling to realise that he is only 43. Joaquin Phoenix: ‘There was a period when I wanted out. I wanted my life back’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Deutsch spent a year reporting a startling and untold story about two Baltimore teenagers, both 18. A journalist on the crime beat becomes the subject of some skeptical journalism 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It can be startling to realize that a smaller tree is leaning against a taller one, like human figures with their sides touching. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Finally, the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer brings the version he recorded, which intersperses the familiar variations with his own improvisations, bracing, startling, like sea air in the face. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

He was aiming for a startling juxtaposition, of a rapid plunge from the deceptive bliss of the scherzo to the profound despair of the Adagio Lamentoso. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s startling to realize how commonplace slavery was in NJ in the past. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

The play’s first, and more startling, act focuses on its characters’ more solitary and secretive erotic practices. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

But this one was especially startling because Ms. Paras, 31, a stay-at-home mother in Anaheim, Calif., hadn’t told anyone outside of her parents and her husband’s parents that she was pregnant. Oh, By the Way: I Had a Baby 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

The dancers, disguised to the point of anonymity, move with a finely detailed robotic animation, twitching and turning in time with a startling array of sound effects. 'The Tempest Replica': dazzling dance, stage wizardry in Seattle 2012-10-24T19:31:05Z

With its cool but startling blend of aesthetics and politics, art history and autobiography, the piece was an instant landmark in queer feminist art. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

And for the fabled storm on the heath, we shift between muddled darkness and sudden, startling brightness. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z

But in an odd way, all of Ms. Bailey’s actors somehow feel incidental to a study in Shakespearean atmosphere that yet again pushes this largely al fresco space in startling new directions. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

Whether or not this as an appropriate term to apply to animals, the scene was startling regardless. Foal play: Silicon Valley's horse sex scene shocks fans and draws Peta's ire 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

What makes “Caught” truly stand out is the voices of its subjects: the kids sound like kids, which, considering their circumstances, is startling in itself. The Best Podcasts of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Other residences open themselves to their surroundings in startling ways. Peek in at Seattle architect's philosophy in 'Houses 2' 2011-11-07T03:40:08Z

The pairing of masculine heads with nude female physiques suggests untenable vulnerabilities in these startling hybrid figures. Noted Seattle artist’s final show reveals he was vibrant to the end 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Laing, Melanie Klein — and some startling and original propositions of his own. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

She possesses startling power and a creamy middle range, if a little uncertain down low. Review: Sarah Connolly and Karen Cargill in Separate Performances of Mahler’s ‘Rückert Lieder’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Clubbed Thumb likes its plays short and startling. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Local critic Elizabeth Maupin writes: "The concept is so startling that it actually works." Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z

One was a handprint on paper made with red paint and his blood; another was “Pocahontas underwear,” a garment he made of dyed-red chicken feathers and beads, putting Native American craft materials to startling use. The Artist Jimmie Durham: A Long Time Gone, but Welcomed Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The film’s sweet, soft finish is both refreshing and startling. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

There are important ways in which Balanchine and Robbins still surpass any 21st-century choreographer, and Ms. Farrell’s stagings make Balanchine choreography still feel startling and challenging. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The jokes, often at the expense of celebrities, are told with startling confidence. Musical Theater and Misanthropy 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Then, later that day, The Washington Post reported a startling new finding: More men are dying of the coronavirus than women. Perspective | I want to cuddle with my kids, but is it safe? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Her lyrics read like a teenage diary, solipsistic and sometimes startling in their innocence. Sea of Bees: Song for the Ravens ? review 2011-02-03T22:40:01Z

At present these startling claims are strictly limited because it really is more complicated than that. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

Hall’s writing is lush, filled with startling conclusions about the nature of art and love and death. He’s an Artist. His Medium? Wings, Tails, Scales, Beaks and Claws. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Although this final startling turn of events only happens in the last five minutes of the pilot, it is undoubtedly one hell of a premise. 'The most original thing I have seen in forever': do Amazon's new pilots deliver? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Writing in Film Comment some decades ago, I argued that the Micheaux oeuvre threw American “history and movies into an alien and startling disarray.” ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’: Black Filmmaking Aborning 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In swift, startling scenes, Hannaham makes visible the ornate prison of racism. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The photographs of young black men are startling in their contrasts: a slave in chains, a professor in a suit; a body dangling from a lynch mob's rope, a musician with a violin. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the most startling thing the reader discovers in this book is that “Lucy Barton” wasn’t the whole truth. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

It is a startling admission, because it is almost impossible to imagine Wu succumbing to that fear. Constance Wu, star of Crazy Rich Asians: ‘I’ve lost parts for being outspoken’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

It is merely a startling annoyance at first, but the bangs don’t stop. ‘Overflow’ Review: The Bathroom Battleground 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The title should be as startling as the black smudge in the center of the composition. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Even more startling are Bowers’ lusty tales about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII. “Wally and Eddie,” corrects Bowers, waving away their formal names. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Among the 95-minute film’s more convincing hybrids of image and text is the startling collision afforded by Tristan Tzara’s 1918 Dada manifesto. Starring Cate Blanchett, 13 times over: Actress commands a stunning range of roles for 'Manifesto' 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Styles of acting are similarly diverse, with room for ripe penny-dreadful artifice and, in the cast of Ms. Gray’s Zoe, startling emotional veracity. Theater Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep 2014-05-05T02:00:01Z

If he isn't engaged in the tooth-and-nail struggle for space with Pop's voice that defined 1973's Raw Power, he's can still producing solos of startling intensity, as at the end of Job. Iggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die – review 2013-04-25T14:29:01Z

Photograph: Illustration by Matt Blease It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. Celebrate by Pippa Middleton – digested read 2012-10-28T18:30:01Z

The most startling moment involves a tractor being repossessed. Queen Sugar: Oprah’s latest drama is a sweet success 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The live shots are so startling to hear, it takes a moment to make visual sense of the stationary, impeccably lit and composed frames. ‘Bulletproof’ Review: Americans and Their Guns 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

She possesses the secrets of hairbreadth anticipation and delay, of swaggering brio and startling dynamic contrasts. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Still, it's almost startling to realize all over again how much more effective that approach can be. "Insidious": "Saw" creators go back to horror basics 2011-03-30T19:45:00Z

Lee’s film has fun with 1970s nostalgia and still tells Stallworth’s story but, thematically, it has startling contemporary currency. ‘We’re still fighting that same fight’: how Spike Lee got his groove back with BlacKkKlansman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” “The Broken Man,” began in a startling way: a cold open, “S.N.L.” style, rather than the usual symphony of maps and fire. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Instead he’s built one of the most ineffable styles in jazz, full of smoldering feeling, but with a startling quietness at its core. Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The contrast between the typical jet-set norms of a traveling soloist and the earthbound fortunes of a musician’s unemployment, are startling. Simone Porter, who made her Seattle Symphony debut at age 10, returns for a very different kind of concert 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

He works in an argot of amiable swing, punctuated by startling disruptions and occasional shots of seraphic beauty. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The rhythmic disconnect can be startling, but the informal choreography highlights the property’s two functions: boutique hotel and contemporary-art museum. Come for the Guest Rooms. Stay for the Galleries. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

In an email to TechCrunch she painted a startling picture of harassment, intimidation and sexism. Ugly window into Silicon Valley sexism: Former GitHub developer speaks out 2014-03-17T16:15:00Z

The house is also occupied by Helen’s younger sister, who bears a startling resemblance to her dead sibling. ‘The Rim of Morning’ review: Two supernatural novels by William Sloane 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is startling that paintings can work on the same level as dirty photographs – that fine art can so provoke and disgust some beholders. The disturbing power of the nude 2011-04-07T11:11:40Z

Another startling omission, in my book, is Benedict Andrews in the best director category. Olivier awards nominations: the ones that got away 2013-03-26T14:10:37Z

The show still begins in total darkness, interrupted by the startling flame of someone trying — “trying” being the operative word — to light a cigarette. Review: Michael C. Hall Probes the Despair of ‘Thom Pain’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

As the action moves from Ybor City to a startling denouement in the cane fields of Cuba, Lehane gives us an intimate look at a world governed by greed, fear and ruthless self-interest. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Dr. Fahn delivered some startling news: He said he believed that Mr. Levine’s recent problems were caused not by the Parkinson’s itself but by the dosage of L-dopa he was taking to treat it. Amid Tension, Met and James Levine Mull Last Bow 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Her success, which involved foreign agents and a startling advance, was linked to India’s kick-starting, liberalizing economy as well. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

One startling and sad anecdote describes his experience when a truck drifted into his lane and he remembers thinking that it would be better to let calamity strike. Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

When a gap opened, the glimpse could be startling. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In a startling change, the band will have a substitute drummer, Bram van den Berg, rather than Mullen, who has been dealing with injuries to his elbows, knees and neck. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

In the opening scene, he catches the startling violence of the Son’s bent-leg pirouettes and proclamatory jumps, and from there he ties drama and music tightly together in one unbroken thread. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet, at the Merriam Theater, Shows Exuberance and Panache 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

When Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh first saw Hokusai’s prints, with their vivid colours and startling, off-kilter points of view, it sparked a revolution in their own art. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

That this all ends on an uncompromisingly depressing note is all the more startling considering that the show, presented by the Mint Theater, was written in 1918 and is meant to be a comedy. ‘The Rat Trap’ Review: Together for Better, but Mostly for Worse 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

That being said, Gevinson’s uncanny lifestyle as a startling young entrepreneur in fashion, film, and new media could be something of an eye opener for teens and adults alike. 10 Great TV Shows Just Waiting to Be Made 2013-10-03T09:45:34Z

Fashion’s Blind Spot Five years ago, the fashion industry faced a reckoning over the startling lack of diversity among the models on major designer runways. Fashion’s Blind Spot 2013-08-07T21:24:16Z

But all shred of machismo was excised, replaced by startling melody, stark expressions of vulnerability and lyrics that reached for the existential. Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock 2012-11-27T14:23:35Z

Using these events as a narrative armature, Mr. Harbach skillfully constructs a story with startling depth of field. Books of The Times: ?The Art of Fielding? by Chad Harbach - Review 2011-09-05T22:32:00Z

Atlantic City: Open for Business After the Storm The morning after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, television networks broadcast startling images of the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Frugal Traveler Blog: Atlantic City: Open for Business After the Storm 2012-11-14T00:18:19Z

We rarely see them, and when we do it’s often startling. The Joy of Bats 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Wallace-Wells makes clear, through a stream of startling factoids, that individual consumption choices can never make the difference that policy changes can. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Then they lined up the pictures to create these startling images. Adam Buxton: how I got the music video BUG 2010-07-15T15:24:00Z

It was very startling for me to see kids in school with guns as part of a class. In "At the Ready," teens' path to Border Patrol & law enforcement is "akin to military recruitment" 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

"Do you know who I am?" grunts Gérard Depardieu, stepping naked from the shower during the pivotal scene from Abel Ferrara's startling account of sex, power and the withering flesh. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

What's startling is the sheer bravura, the idiosyncrasy, the uniqueness of the work. Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award 2010-03-30T19:20:00Z

Hire great Brits Patrick Stewart, Brian Blessed and Dancy and maybe you can cover up the startling lack of humor on the page. ‘Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return’ is pretty charmless 2014-05-08T19:50:40Z

In Jungle Book, the jungle animals jumping at the audience in 3D is startling. Disney's Jungle Book remake branded 'too scary for kids' by Indian censor 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The flood of private stories made public wasn’t startling or even unanticipated, exactly. One Year of #MeToo: A Younger Generation’s Remedy for Rage 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“The Walking Dead” is famous for abruptly killing off fan favorites, and the first episode of “Invincible” ends in a startling massacre. ‘Transformers’ and a Zombie Comedy: What ‘Invincible’ Is Made Of 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

The dramatic concept was both startling intricate and familiar, a Postmodern mélange of the French Revolution and Beaumarchais’ Figaro trilogy, with riffs on many popular operas. Critic's Pick: 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The startling lack of basic chemistry and sanitation knowledge among these devotees is pretty amusing. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

What she gets back is a startling range of emphatic praise for shows that . . . well, as a critic, I sometimes cringe at what some people hold up as great TV. Perspective | Jimmy Kimmel can surely have fun with a virtual Emmys show, but will TV ever feel like a shared experience again? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The syndicated TV series "Cops," which tags along with law enforcement officers nationwide, debuted in 1989 with its authorized but still startling take on territory once owned by TV's police dramas. Rodney King beating helped drive video revolution 2012-06-18T20:48:08Z

The red-rock hallway north of Sedona packs such startling scenery into its 12 miles that it often draws comparisons to its famous Arizona cousin, the Grand Canyon. In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And yet this suite follows the movie’s psychological program with startling facility. Review: A ‘Lost Highway’ Suite Refracts David Lynch 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a short, soft plea that’s soon washed away by the Cuban acoustics and strung out recording, but it’s a startling moment. Otherwise, The Strokes Wipe the Slate Clean on Comedown Machine 2013-03-26T11:00:30Z

For me, the final moments of their relationship are a startling, even magnificent repudiation of sentimentality and an insistence on sex. Looking for casual sex? Head for the cinema 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

It's startling, and beautiful, but it might otherwise be quite ordinary without a strange addition. Morandi: Lines of Poetry – review 2013-01-13T00:05:35Z

To an American audience, a movie about white people using hard drugs was startling in itself. Drugs, despair, disintegration: 20 years later, “Trainspotting” still resonates 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

So can academics and archaeologists who have learned of the office’s startling holdings come over to study them first hand? Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

He made molds and cast them, and the results are startling. Termite Art and the Modern Museum 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Then, with startling sternness, an unscripted repetition: “Is that clear?” ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

What I didn’t see, however, and what Ms. Nottage showed me as we watched the film, was something nearly as startling: Theresa Harris. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

With its folk motifs, two spellbinding pas de deux and galvanizing group sections, “Violin Concerto” remains playful and soulful in startling ways. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

People who get to eat at expensive restaurants all the time may be jaded, and need startling new combinations. Brennan’s in New Orleans Walks the Tightrope of Tradition 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Ruth would be an archetypal “cool” grandma were it not for her haughty bite and startling directness. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

But I'd hope that he might make one more film – tough, startling, more a snarl than a purr – about power and weakness in the world. End game for Roman Polanski 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

It’s startling to find a woman of her age, likability, intelligence – and now moderate fame – living in temporary accommodation because she can’t afford to rent a room in a Paris apartment. Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The increased image area of the format relative to 35 millimeter yields a picture of startling richness and detail. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

A couple of clicks and a credit-card authorization later, fans had access to a startling, sometimes funny, often despairing hour and seven minutes of “Horace and Pete,” written by, directed by, and starring Louis C.K. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

It’s been a startling art-house plunge for the actor, one that has surely blown the minds of many a “Twilight” fan. For Denis and Pattinson, a cosmic connection in ‘High Life’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Vodville,” a tune that Mr. Watts has featured on the bandstand for years, muscled through tempos almost compulsively, managing to sound precise and startling with every new feint. Music Review: Winds of Jazz: Energies of a Cyclone and an Ebullient Breeze 2011-01-19T22:51:35Z

The movie provides startling, detailed looks at the wrecks drug addicts become. Review: ‘The Seventh Fire’ Explores Drug Abuse on an Indian Reservation 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

We come for the iconoclastic humor, the bizarre imaginative leaps, the constantly startling prose. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

Finally, there is Ms. McLean’s voice, a flexible instrument with unexpected reserves of power that she held in check until the right moments to unleash a startling feral wail. Review: Grace McLean, Whose Songs Skip Across Boundaries 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Roman erotic art is startling and fascinating, but it lacks that spark of sin. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin 2013-03-26T14:37:18Z

The things that come out of Paloma’s mouth can be startling, like her statement that only psychoanalysis rivals religion in its love of suffering. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z

Love and creativity are dissected in Headlong's startling modern The Seagull at Northern Stage until tomorrow. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z

There are startling literary references and flourishes,” Vidal wrote. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Jane he presents in this movie — he’s also the writer — is played by Sally Hawkins, and her performance is another startling transformation in her filmography. ‘Eternal Beauty’ Review: Sally Hawkins, in Another Transformation 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

He also throws in a few bright splashes of crazy, over-the-top theatricality, in the form of outrageous period-appropriate outfits and startling celebrity cameos, as well as dabs of raucous comedy. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z

It is a startling and illustrative distillation of centuries of science. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

So many startling juxtapositions, amplified by hanging some drawings with their frames touching. Drawing, a Cure for the January Blahs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

His ear was alert to startling harmonic shifts and inner textures. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z

On Mr. Burke’s menu in the late 1980s were startling “American” conflations like cinnamon-smoked quail with apple ravioli, pecan-black-pepper consommé and quail eggs; and sea bream with asparagus saffron broth garnished with lotus chips. View From the River Café: 40 Years of Feasts and Firsts 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Her video from Nov. 28 has racked up more than 33.1 million views and shows her startling her cat Stella by pointing the large tree at the feline. Cats and Christmas trees: Why pet experts say you shouldn't scare them away 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Two other tracks from her dynamic compositions were written for short documentaries by the very talented Vanessa Renwick: “Mighty Tacoma” and “Charismatic Megafauna,” the latter a startling work about wolves and humans. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

There were surprising selections, startling steals and sad so longs. 'The Voice' recap: Battles bring future stars, dragon slappers 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Schoenberg's late Trio is a startling musical description of heart attack and hospital stay, with a surgeon's knife at the ready. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

It's not so much about manipulation as it is a startling degree of precision and perfectionism. Review | In HBO’s magnificent Bee Gees documentary, broken hearts — and icon status — can finally be mended 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Like all horror movies, this is a grossly exaggerated fable, one that arrives by way of its impressive cinematography and interpolated tales at a startling, violent, tragic and inevitable conclusion. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z

Here he takes a seldom-heard gigue for piano by Mozart and turns it into something spiky and startling. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z

Researching this nondescript non-event was a startling reminder that Young has now been doing this for 10 entire years, and has made five whole albums. This week's new tracks 2012-07-06T23:05:23Z

As Ben Brantley wrote in an admiring review in The New York Times, he does indeed “spring into the air from a sitting position,” a catlike move that is startling to witness in a human. No Waiting to Play This ‘Godot’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Their faces scroll past on what looks like a giant cellphone screen, making it easy to contrast the images’ startling accuracy with their ingeniously slapdash method. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Like many authors, Williams wasn’t adept at expressing himself outside of his work, but he sometimes evinced a startling degree of tough self-awareness. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

That’s the startling question visitors hear on the audio guide as they walk through the “Gauguin Portraits” exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

A large explosion leveled a home and damaged 50 others in a northwest suburban subdivision Friday night, prompting an emergency response from multiple jurisdictions and startling residents in neighboring communities miles away. The Both debut with Aimee Mann, Ted Leo 2014-04-07T15:35:00Z

Heard in this context, Bartok’s familiar Concerto for Orchestra sounded fresh and startling. Music Review: Salonen and the Big Sounds of a Small European Nation 2011-03-11T23:45:17Z

More startling lyrical depth from Spencer Krug, who inspects life's darker corners. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

His latest piece will play in a traditional theatre, but that doesn't mean this show – which introduces us to two con artists, Liz and Jim – will be any the less startling. Stockton International Riverside Festival, Liolà, King Lear: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

It was really all he needed, beyond the hulking gravity of his singing, in a bone-dry baritone, and the intrigue of his lyrics, with their startling imagery and deadpan philosophy. Music Review: Bill Callahan Show at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-09T23:04:37Z

Odder, crazier and more quietly subversive than McKay's earlier efforts -- which were already pretty funny -- this is a startling late-summer surprise that's hysterically funny when it's not falling on its face. "The Other Guys": A late-summer cop-comedy surprise 2010-08-06T00:20:00Z

Co-creator Mark Frost said the new 18-part season "had to be in its own way, as startling and different and arresting as it was the first time." No spoilers! 'Twin Peaks' premiere urges guests to keep secret 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

The startling one-in-five statistic has become a rallying cry for campus judicial reform and entered the public lexicon through widespread dissemination by the media and the Obama Administration. 1 in 5: Debating the Most Controversial Sexual Assault Statistic  2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s startling because “The Correspondence” is also thoughtful and almost self-consciously literary. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Bale’s startling transformation is just the latest step forward in Hollywood for a booming prosthetics industry. How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation) 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

But this is precisely why Ms. Evangelista’s lawsuit is so startling and important: It actually reveals the processes we are meant to disappear or disavow. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

With their resourceful design and startling hues, Hammer movies also looked much more expensive than they were. Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z

“Myanmar Diaries” opens with a startling scene that sets the stage for what is to come. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

But the most startling insights in the book come when Gleick moves to explore the role of information in biology and particle physics. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

We reach a startling moment halfway, when a cataclysmic tragedy devastates Souad’s family. All Together Now for Tribeca Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Independent film, on the other hand, has always been a refuge for the startling, the skewed, the stirring -- providing an opportunity for an actor to offer up a performance that is unexpected and viscerally compelling. Jennifer Lawrence: the making of an "It" actress 2011-01-20T00:28:31Z

When I visited American or German cities the contrast was startling. Save face. Save our museums 2010-09-22T13:24:00Z

It's still a little startling to hear him refer casually to his father-in-law, which is possible because his wife, Shawn, is 26 years younger. ArtsBeat: Larry King Goes Online, Picking Up Where He Left Off 2012-07-18T15:38:25Z

The confusion, agony and unresolved questions in the piece bear witness in startling, uncomfortable ways. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z

A substantial, purposeful work for string octet, it moves seamlessly from passages of wheeling, Tippett-like complexity to episodes of slow, startling intensity; Fiona Winning's central viola solo was quite beautifully played. BCMG/Benjamin – review 2013-04-08T16:18:04Z

Her voice can be limpid and confiding or fiercely torn as she strategically reveals its startling range. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Restaurant owner Stela Borbas was on her way to work in downtown Miami after yoga class when she came across a startling sight. Driving to work, a restaurant owner saw a car stopped in the road. She went over — and delivered a baby. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans,” the Times put it. The Decline of White, Middle-Aged America, Onstage 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Jessica Biel got all messed up for her new TV show -- a psychological thriller in which she plays a young mother who commits a startling act of violence and can't remember why. Jessica Biel goes deep and different for messed-up 'The Sinner' 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Surely his prescience about many things is startling. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Director Raymond O. Caldwell sets a tone that allows for everything from food fights to a startling photo montage of black power and painful stereotypes zooming across the 20th century. Review | Jay-Z and Kanye set the tone in premiere of ‘Les Deux Noirs’ at Mosaic Theater 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was only after the revelation that Nixon had recorded all his conversations — startling to all but handful of the president's staff — that Dean was proved to have told the truth. John Dean takes a fresh look at Watergate in 'Nixon Defense' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Where there are exceptions, they can be startling. The end of erotica? How Hollywood fell out of love with sex 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Even on a record where the presence of his usual consigliere Noah “40” Shebib is diminished, each arrangement employs the same palette and achieves a startling thematic consistency. Review: Drake's 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' Marks a Transitional Moment 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

In “Humane,” the figure who exemplifies this entrenchment is Barack Obama, who campaigned in 2008 as a critic of the forever wars and then proceeded to rely on drone strikes with startling regularity. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The were remain by turns startling, disturbing and complex, imbued with all the contradictions he felt about Japan, photography, himself. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z

“What you do see is at once sobering, startling and obvious: These are the ladies and gentleman of the jury.” Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The startling video shows the bride in her white ball gown, tiara and veil while she appears to be wrestling an unidentified person in an open field. Bride claims she was not involved in fight after video of her appearing to wrestle someone goes viral 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

In 1931, she interviewed Hitler, scoffing at his “startling insignificance” when encountered face-to-face. Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

His plight is so human, his mourning so understandable, that it is startling when he reminds us of his belief in the superiority of the white race. ‘Small Great Things’ is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

It was startling how much richer the experience became. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, there’s startling evidence that some plastics are actually designed to be washed down the drain right into our waters. Big plastic’s PR disaster: Why it can’t lie its way around microbeads 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The artist’s instinctive color corrections, a deep purple sky sprinkled with gold glitter and a small water tower described in startling shades of peach and lavender. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

It's a startling image, one of many in this production, performed in Portuguese by the Brazilian Companhia Bufomecânica, which is brought to the UK by the RSC as part of the World Shakespeare festival. Two Roses for Richard III – review 2012-05-22T12:11:27Z

This is startling by itself, since the Sugar Plum Fairy in most versions “says” nothing here, even in mime terms. ArtsBeat: Clues to the Original Nutcracker 2010-12-04T12:30:00Z

The sight of Ms. Lyon pumping iron is formidable and startling. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity. Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Transitions between movements are imbued with a striking blend of the startling, foreboding and the alluring. CD reviews: Slatkin turns to France; a Reich retrospective. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

They swap characters in the middle of scenes, introduce and abandon startling new plot developments, and create an atmosphere where it's impossible to predict what will happen next. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z

Saville's work – she remains best known for her voluminous and unsparing early nudes – is nothing if not startling. Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies' 2012-06-09T20:46:38Z

Can’t other transitions — menopause, for example, with its own startling varieties of knowledge and transformation — be embraced as a kind of second bloom, an unfurling of a new self? When the ‘Change of Life’ Means It’s Time to Change Your Life 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

A startling and illustrative distillation of centuries of science by an Italian theoretical physicist. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

At one point the fragment “of the sun” was repeated with whispered urgency, creating a multilayered sonic tapestry above which the word “sun” rang out with startling clarity. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Offers Premieres at Zankel Hall 2014-02-21T22:20:50Z

And for whatever reason, as confirmed at Town Hall, the most startling of her early-period voices — the piercing, metallic mewl — is mostly gone. Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z

Her role, she proposed in a startling private memo, would be to use her insider knowledge of victimology to attack Weinstein’s victims. Perspective | How Lisa Bloom, feminist attorney, became just another complicit Aunt Lydia 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

In between, with a rapidity that’s startling, Didion’s stage adaptation of “The Year of Magical Thinking” arrived on Broadway, in March 2007. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Needless to say, it was a startling encounter. My Story: Growing Acceptance for the Transgendered 2013-02-04T04:45:25Z

His music continued to explore repetition, drones, improvised lyrics and startling subject matter, but he also revealed his roots in rockabilly and sang an occasional love song. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

There is a telling scene deep inside "Boyhood" that gets at the essential core of the emotional appeal of Richard Linklater's startling new film. 'Boyhood' a startling, intimate portrait of a child growing up 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

One hopes that as well as enjoying Kid Koala's startling rhythms, breaks and surface noise, his followers may want to get into the crates themselves to dig out some gems. This week's new live music 2012-10-05T23:05:18Z

This is a startling story, but perhaps the most startling thing about it is that the man in Air Force Intelligence who scrambled the plane was Lebanon's director of photography, Giora Bejach. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

But Dudamel’s rise to this occasion, at a time when he is being involuntarily drawn into Venezuela’s current turmoil, is a startling new chapter. Dudamel dedicates concert to a slain student in Venezuela — and opens a new chapter with the L.A. Phil 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not difficult to imagine this woman shopping for groceries with startling poise. Musicians shine, but messaging falls flat at Earth Day rally on Mall 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Singular filmmaking voices emerge every year, startling us with their ingenuity. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

It’s startling to think how true that statement is, especially for women. Review | Meg Wolitzer’s ‘Female Persuasion’ captures our era’s gender politics 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The daughter of Yugoslav military heroes, she made her name through a series of startling performances, such as the one in which she systematically stabbed her hand with knives. Drama queen 2011-07-07T08:09:21Z

Both shows lack the startling drama of her earlier performances, including one in which she systematically stabbed her hand with knives. Audience in tears at Abramovic show 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The black-and-white film, set in the early 1970s, depicts the dynamic between Cleo and her employerswith startling intimacy, presenting her inside and outside of the home where she lives and works. ‘Roma’ made Yalitza Aparicio a star. Now she’s giving a voice to her indigenous fans. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is always startling to see things like planes in a Costa picture. ‘Vitalina Varela’ Review: A Widow Grieves in Endless Night 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

So this season, it was startling to find that two young dancers making their debuts — scarcely known even to aficionados in the audience — seemed immediately right for this role, Unity Phelan and Ashley Hod. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

In that she has been proved wrong, perhaps because of the seeming incongruence of that life with the often grotesque characters and startling scenarios she conjured in her fiction. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

In America, where most Mexicans are noticed, if at all, sweeping floors and waiting at tables, such a masterful cleanup in Hollywood is a startling result. Beyond borders 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

We’re talking the morning after the startling election of Donald Trump and about a documentary dedicated to the last 50 or so years of black American life. Henry Louis Gates on Trump: “That election clearly represented a backlash against the progress black people have made since 1965″ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

The eruption left a swath of devastation covering more than 200 square miles; the images of flattened forests that were so stunning in 1980 are just as startling today. | 'Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead': And You Thought Iceland Was a Problem 2010-05-04T00:01:00Z

The adaptation of Tagore's The Home and the World, and its startling depiction of gender politics. Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z

It is startling how raw the 40- to 60-story Jazz Age towers looked, erupting out of a sea of loft buildings to the east and west of Grand Central Terminal. Renewing an Affair With the Empire State Building 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Helping set the stage for a music scene that remains one of the strangest and most fantastical in Europe, acts such as Alaska y los Pegamoides mixed punk, disco and horror-movie references to startling effect. A history of Spanish pop in 10 songs 2012-06-18T15:17:21Z

The orchestra’s metamorphosis over the intermission was startling. FSO trades timidity for vigor after intermission 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The 70-odd final picks give you a strong and often startling sense of both the natural world and the locales where nature is under siege. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z

The piece, which recreates one the artist first executed in Munich in 1968, exudes a slightly moist, muffling atmosphere and affords a sight so surreally, deliriously startling as to be simultaneously ridiculous and sublime. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z

That's a startling statistic, what with such concerts common overseas, where Cage is lionized. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The film’s absorption in practical matters is exhilarating, and also startling. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z

The movie is provocative but rarely thought-provoking, and it stops short of any startling psychological or political insight. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z

What’s most startling, when you focus on Frank, is how ever-present he is 17 1/2 years after his death, how regularly he bullies his way into your living room. Why Frank Sinatra still matters 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It also may be that Ms. Smith had no interest in hewing to the form of a traditional memoir because she’d already done that, to startling effect, with “Just Kids.” Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

The combination of projected images and real objects that come at you as you soar across Hogwarts is startling. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

Eisenberg demonstrated a startling originality, playing the lost adolescent in a light, glancing style, without the anguished emotionalism common to such roles. David Denby: Jesse Eisenberg Explores His Dark Side 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The crowd at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park was often unable to decipher even what song Winehouse was performing - a startling problem for a singer who is popular in Serbia. Rest of Amy Winehouse's European tour in doubt 2011-06-20T17:07:15Z

There’s been a startling amount of entrepreneurial experimentation in the last few weeks, proceeding in fits and starts, and it should have an impact on the culture long after the lockdown ends. Can You Make Money in Live Comedy Right Now? Some Producers Say Yes 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

His willingness to be guilelessly himself was startling simply because we were accustomed to celebrities dissembling in order to preserve their market-tested likability. Carrie Fisher and George Michael Were the Same in 1 Way 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The startling and grotesque metamorphosis that ends “The Latinist” might have earned the approval of Ovid himself. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Helpfully, the Knife's startling new album Shaking The Habitual puts plenty of water between them and the pretenders to their throne. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z

“Faithful Place” begins with startling news: Rosie’s suitcase has been found. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z

With each of the nine causes of depression and anxiety I learned about, I kept being taught startling facts and arguments like this that forced me to think differently. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

When interviewers ask me how I carry on carrying on, I speak about the startling successes with some of my patients, about hope and the future. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

One startling image shows a handwritten list of the many corporations that declined to bankroll the eight pioneers before Fairchild Camera and Instrument said yes. Television Review: ‘Silicon Valley,’ on ‘American Experience’ on PBS 2013-02-04T22:50:31Z

Fitting, since the characters in this startling, dramatic and relevant novel all have their own obsessions, most of them centered on a woman’s place in 17th-century Europe. Review | In ‘The Mercies,’ a deadly storm isn’t the only danger for a Scandinavian community 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Now perfumers are putting a modern spin on the rare Old World ingredient, creating fragrances that depart from the traditional, spice-heavy blends in fresh, even startling, ways. The Return of an Enigmatic Old World Fragrance 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

But the startling impact of his style hadn’t gone unnoticed in his time, in bohemian hip-hop circles. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

These are seedy, small-time cops and robbers, but their story is sometimes ennobled with almost startling touches of visual grandeur. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It is also, because of its commingling of human and animal realities, a steady fount of radical, startling aesthetics. The Alternate Aesthetic Realities of ‘Tiger King’ 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

While they’re busy not making plans, life happens, of course, to tragic and startling effect. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

So it was startling to find that, speaking by phone from her Chelsea studio, she was engaging and strikingly frank. Front Row: Is Issa in Line for Throne? 2010-11-24T20:50:00Z

The cold open for this week’s particularly strong episode made for startling television. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 13: No Good, No Bad 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

A baleful section on these developments, as reflected in photographs, posters and children’s books, is highlighted by startling kimonos for Japanese children patterned with images of warplanes, bombs and cannons. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z

It's possible to breathe startling new life into corny characters and situations. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z

In Ritchie’s office is a large framed photograph of Samuel Beckett, whom he resembles in some indefinable but startling way. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The interaction between Mr. Webber and the toddler is startling and a little unsettling; there’s a palpable closeness. The Carpetbagger: Actor Gets Attention as Director of 'The End of Love' 2012-01-21T15:48:45Z

One of the most startling elements of the properties Mr. Hohman and his team visited was the number of beds in each. The Bachelorette Party Comes for Scottsdale 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

They've succeeded to a startling degree, with a show that lobs all sorts of goodies and surprises at you, in random yet satisfying order. Cornish stages a tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z

For her part, Marguerite is passed from father to husband, who later, in a startling moment, commands her to kiss Jacques in public as evidence of Jean’s resumed good will toward his frenemy. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The city looks startling flying in, a slew of tall buildings crowding around the harbor’s azure waters. Times food writer offers old favorites and new haunts in Honolulu 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ten days later the librarian, Patrick Le Boeuf, sent me a startling e-mail. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

There was also the pressure inherent in adapting what he called “some of the most startling prose of the 21st century.” Benedict Cumberbatch on His Emmy Nod for Bringing Patrick Melrose to Life 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The gun bits are fine; one startling tableau is as disturbing as it is visually poetic. Review: ‘The Annotated History of the American Muskrat’ Is Worried About America 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Dogs, dolphins and parrots are shown performing startling feats of memory, and exhibiting advanced language skills. TV highlights 26/02/2013 2013-02-26T07:00:03Z

“Despicable Animal” exploits the framework, too, swerving from a calmly suffocating verse and bridge into a startling sunburst of a chorus. New Music: Albums From Wye Oak and Sd Laika 2014-04-28T21:13:32Z

British pianist Django Bates – with so much improvisation now pouring from him that his impetuous fluency is startling even his longest-serving fans – played a Vortex rammed to the doors. Django Bates 2010-04-14T20:45:00Z

Over all they excel in a kind of subtle startling, like meeting unexpected ripples in a mirror. A Poltergeist Who Adores Apricots and Cat-Loving A.I. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

He continued to tour his one-man stage show very successfully, and had one startling dramatic success in 1981 when he appeared in Going Gently on BBC2. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z

Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA In this week's Out in Paperback Q&A, the novelist Helen Oyeyemi offered the the following rather startling writing tip: Download the Write or Die computer application. Write or Die: can a $5 app cure writer's block? 2012-06-13T11:06:00Z

It's one of the most gently startling shows to be staged this year. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z

And all 24 tracks in Kopatchinskaja's hands made a startling surprise. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The 90 dizzyingly incident-packed minutes of the last show came to a startling conclusion just as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand rocked the whole of Europe. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z

The “tankard gazer” was a well-known phrase that implied a glutton or someone who was always looking for more, and this image was made more startling by depicting the drinkers as children. The Mystery of the Painting Thieves Love 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

The reading unfolded with startling efficiency, moving briskly through a cycle of aural imagery, from warm-hued suppleness to mechanistic precision, mysteriousness and sparkling fragility. Music Review: Bamberg Symphony Led by Jonathan Nott at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-05-22T22:06:14Z

Not much happens in this hour and it feels like the show is laying the groundwork for some potentially startling events. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 9: ‘A Dragonfly in Amber’ 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

A sweaty, delirious reflection of our collective state of mind, it was startling, intrepid and weirdly solacing. On Second Viewing, First Impressions Don’t Always Hold 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Markle is both demanding and vulnerable; the startling turn of events that signals her demise and concludes the first act is shocking and moving. Exploring life's prickly truths 2011-01-24T00:13:06Z

In the first moment I ever saw her act it was just startling; she’s so available to her feelings and so fearless about exposing the worst parts of herself. Mitch Hurwitz digs deep on “Lady Dynamite” — and gives “Arrested Development” details: “We’re ready to go at a moment’s notice” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Being upside-down in a kayak is always startling, especially when it’s February. Explorer: A Rinse and a Roll on a River in Nepal 2013-06-21T18:25:51Z

Sound and Music is the most startling casualty of the music portfolio. The cuts axe was a salami slicer after all - but it's only a stay of execution 2011-03-30T17:32:32Z

The stories — of ardent friendships and surprising liaisons, startling family secrets and scandalous crimes — keep piling up and tumbling together, and somehow too much is never enough. | 'Tales of the City': When We Were Young and Gay, Under the Disco Ball 2011-06-17T23:12:12Z

Today, however, pop's unlikeliest Lothario has offered a startling apology, describing his behaviour as an addiction. Mick Hucknall apologies to 1,000 women he slept with 2010-12-02T19:08:00Z

Let Me In, the forthcoming US remake of the genuinely startling 2008 Swedish horror Let the Right One In, falls firmly into the latter category. Will Let Me In have the right stuff? 2010-07-05T15:53:00Z

Mr. Aslan’s thesis is not as startling, original or “entirely new” as the book’s publicity claims. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z

There remain many worlds to be discovered and stories to be told, even within the boundaries of a small country with a complicated history and a startling number of ambitious, cleareyed filmmakers. Critic?s Notebook: A Tough History Begets Unsentimental Films 2010-12-03T01:04:00Z

Both interviewees have startling memories to share that will change public perceptions of what happened on the corner of 72nd Street, outside the Lennons' home in the Dakota building. John Lennon: the last day in the life 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z

Ms. Chang depicts a human subject whose borders are mobile, and whose privacy survives her sometimes startling candor. A Bold Explorer Surfaces in ‘Wandering Lake’ 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

It’s startling at first to be confronted with Elizabeth Taylor’s coloring and styling in Keegan’s short raven hair and scarlet lipstick; is this a silhouette any sane actress really wants to evoke? Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

These were startling and stirring words, the kind that hogtie your attention. Review: Live Theater Returns, With Mike Daisey and His Beefs 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

Tamisha Guy continues to astonish with her startling ability to marry a sense of power and serenity; she commands the stage most elegantly, with movement that melts off her limbs. Review: Kyle Abraham, Walking on Air 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“A startling and hilarious, if discomfiting, compendium of published criticism about everyone from Beethoven to Copland,” Sondheim writes in “Look, I Made a Hat.” Decades in the Broadway biz, and still we want more of Stephen Sondheim

What’s intriguing here, and also a little startling, is that the competition features men. Pole dancing has come out of the strip clubs ... and become an event for the whole family. Is this progress?

This startling fact about the ultimate mysteries of pregnancy raises many ethical and legal questions. Motherlode: Will Fetal Science Lead to Lawsuits? 2011-07-29T22:01:03Z

The size of some of the sculptures is startling. 1,000 Years of Art at the Edge of the Gobi Desert 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Opposite her, Louis Peres, best known as a screen actor, is a startling tech-generation descendant of Christian Bale in “American Psycho”: clean-cut, in control, smoothly scary. ‘Daddy’ Review: Deeper Into the Internet’s Darkest Corners 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Its dances show one man and four women; what’s still startling is how wild, independent and driven the women are. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

I was awed more by its size, and the startling magenta of the lemon-hibiscus glaze, than by the pastry, which was a bit tough. Miller’s Guild: Sexy, pricey, meaty, fiery — it’s all there 2014-03-21T12:56:47Z

Hence the startling range of the pieces here, culled in the main from the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z

In a third — the most startling event in the piece — she stands astride his shoulders as he kneels and stretches one arm upward and repeatedly slaps her breastbone, hard. Dance Review: Jennifer Monson and Friends Perform at La MaMa Moves! 2013-06-24T21:23:03Z

The lighting, by Kate McGee, draws on a whole palette of luminosity, from the lone ghost light standing sentry to the dazzling whiteness that emanates, for a few startling moments, from beneath the stage. Review: Kafka With Puppets, Ghost Light and Shadows 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

He did this through images packed with startling details, vivid tableaus, symbols and information that were often expanded on by eccentric, theme-matched frames made of things like branches, books and pill bottles. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z

The 70-minute monologue begins with a startling joke — “My mom texted me, ‘Kill it tonight!’ and I’m like, I already did, that’s why the show exists!” — that feels crafted to immediately disarm the abortion taboo. When an Abortion Story Is Told as a Caper, Thriller or Farce 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Your book begins with a startling scene of violence. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

There is also an intriguing display of his ceramics, which range from a startling, if Art Nouveau-ish, klunkiness to a distinctly modern plainness, along with some pieces by Jean-Joseph Carriès, his friend and ceramics mentor. Art Review: ‘Salvaging the Past,’ on Hoentschel, at Bard Graduate Center 2013-05-09T20:53:25Z

I imagined that he’d sit up, get his bearings, and wander out off the slab and into the living room, startling everybody. “Game of Thrones”: Bran Stark and the Tower of Joy 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Alta Mariah, with her conjurings and séances, gives a new meaning to the concept of a ghost town, and—with special effects of a startling simplicity—the filmmakers launch the action into cosmic realms. Highlights from BAMCinemaFest 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Moreover, as Leonard manipulates the pawns on this chessboard, the film's few "surprises" are hardly startling. Mark Rylance is the one reason to try on "The Outfit," a crime drama that looks better than it feels 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

In March, while observing a table read in midtown, I got a startling text from my editor: Did I want to go see Prince that night? My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s so startling because the Frick is loaded with Fragonard — you know, romping women, pretty pictures — and this is decidedly not a pretty picture. Arlene Shechet Creates Beauty Out of Chaos 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Even upon repeated hearings the fugue never fails to shock, although the piano version is less startling than the original. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

Now the food books tumble out, unstoppable, in a startling range of sub-genres. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z

The mixture of historical fact and contemporary fiction/fantasy is startling. 'Even the Rain': A film-within-a-film about conquerors and their legacy 2011-03-03T21:01:06Z

A small museum was filled with startling photos of the prison’s brutal inner life, when it was run by wild convict gangs with weapons crafted from iron spikes and nails. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Unlike many early-sound movies, All Quiet on the Western Front doesn’t bolt itself down to stilted exchanges of dialogue, but spends Universal’s bottomless resources on battle sequences of startling scope. Before 1917: revisiting the greatest first world war movies 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of high drama in the novel; the characters’ cool and sometimes startling insights into their own behavior are pleasure enough. Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

But despite the prominence of a handful of atheist intellectuals like Richard Dawkins or the late Christopher Hitchens, it’s startling to realize that outright nonbelievers remain a tiny minority, well into the 21st century. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z

Most startling is the ghoulish, silent figure slumped near a big cardboard box in the corner, a middle-aged man who looks as if he’s just attended a Halloween party that turned into a weeklong bender. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Spiral Theory Test Kitchen filled the tabletop with an array of branches, flowers, fruits and nuts as well as more startling elements such as a fountain of blood and a giant, marrow-filled split bone. Inside Telfar Clemens’s Riotous Palazzo Party 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

But my second thought was more startling: “No.” Modern Love: An Agnostic’s Guide to Marriage 2012-08-30T17:01:27Z

That text is a startling starting point for startling music about the lives of coal miners in the Appalachian Mountains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a startling moment, one of many across the work. Tchaikovsky for Christmas 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

So the gritty and tense tone of "Broken Horses" marks a startling departure for the filmmaker. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 'Broken Horses' treks from Bollywood to Hollywood 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

And though I’ve often grappled with such questions while poring over ancient sources, it was only when I faced an anguish beyond my imagining that they acquired a new, startling intensity. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

"My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn’t recognize me at first." Mindy Kaling's brother says pretending to be black got him into med school 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

I recognized the hue immediately: Muir had described it as “the most startling, chilling, almost shrieking vitriol blue.” A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The matte surfaces have a startling perfection that seems almost pliable, like fabric or flesh. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

When the slow movement’s untroubled, bucolic aria suddenly takes an ominous wrong turn into the minor key, the contrast is startling. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The lessons he learns about honor, grace and courage are startling in their simplicity and relevance. ‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen,” was a controversial addition to an 1881 Impressionist exhibition thanks to its startling use of materials including silk slippers and a wig of human hair. Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime; now 70 have gone on view 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Here’s a startling news item: “The Intouchables,” a lively if largely predictable Parisian comedy about a wealthy quadriplegic and his ne’er-do-well immigrant caretaker, has become the biggest international success in the history of French cinema. “Moonrise Kingdom”: Wes Anderson’s mid-’60s love story 2012-05-23T19:55:00Z

Divided into sections that make startling narrative leaps, this tale carries through to 2018 and shimmers all the way. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z

The statistics on US jails and prisons are startling. Could you survive 60 days in prison? Behind bars on the ultimate reality show 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s startling how good the film is, partly because independent American cinema is clogged with bland coming-of-age fictions about nice kids. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

And with that startling sadness comes the realization that, all along, a jagged heart has been throbbing at the center of these merry revels. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

And they have made Dr. Oxman, who is rather startling looking herself, a star. Who Is Neri Oxman? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

That he looked so youthful and wholesome gave a startling charge to the moments in which Alfredo can barely contain his passion for Violetta: it was clear what keeps this reckless relationship going. Opera Review: A Modern ?Traviata,? Where Time Keeps Ticking 2011-01-02T17:15:26Z

For visitors of a certain age, the sight of works in different media so thoroughly mixed and contextualizing one another at the Modern is a startling thrill. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

These figures are also meant to be startling, provoking. Exhibition Review: ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square 2013-05-09T20:27:43Z

One of the more startling theories is that The Shining is Kubrick's confession to helping the US government fake . Fans breaking The Shining 'codes' 2012-10-24T08:06:46Z

That in itself is startling, as are so many of the details — a detective washing recently excreted balloons stuffed with drugs — that insistently underscore the human stakes in this war. Movie Review: ‘Drug War,’ Moving Fast and Furious in China 2013-07-25T23:17:51Z

It is startling in its fearlessness, even today. Television: ?New Girls,? ?2 Broke Girls,? ?Last Man Standing?: New Season for Old Jokes 2011-11-23T14:30:42Z

What we said: The Club is a startling and disturbing film in many ways – and replete with ideas … The flavour of fear and disillusionment is all but overwhelming. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

It's a startling statement: when asked to unpack it, he gets smilingly tangled. Gianni Di Gregorio: The incidental director 2011-07-28T20:01:01Z

They traffic in brunch dates, relationship drama and chic threads, plus a startling amount of nudity. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Waco timeline — a bloody, startling shootout leading to a 51-day siege — is the reverse of a conventional Hollywood tragedy, and it remains to be seen how the Dowdles will handle that challenge. Review: Taylor Kitsch Is a Charismatic David Koresh in ‘Waco’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

There are twists and turns and more than one startling U-bend. Review: ‘The Feast’ Plumbs the Depths of a Troubling Toilet 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Gallup’s mirror self-recognition test, as it is known, reveals the startling fact that humans are part of a very small group of animals that systematically pass this test of consciousness or self-awareness. Is your cat self-aware? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

It was startling to see the remnants of the Cold War and the Communist era every time we crossed into Slovakia. Nothing blue about a birthday bike trip along the Danube 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

He whisked a rival’s shoe against the wall with a thud, startling a sleeping puppy on the couch. He?s Only Just Begun to Fight 2011-04-13T22:52:55Z

Some of the study’s most startling findings were for children considered severely obese. More than half of American children set to be obese by age 35, study finds 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

He was funny, lyrical and – most startling of all – honest. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z

Looking at studies on BMI across the world over the last 40 years, the researchers found a startling increase, they say, from 105 million obese people in 1975 to 641 million in 2014. One fifth of world's adults will be obese by 2025, study predicts 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Everyone remembers the sequence for its sharp juxtaposition of serene religious ritual and startling violence, as Michael, the once-reluctant successor to his father’s business, handles the job with efficient, cold-blooded aplomb. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

They take startling leaps with everyday Korean foods like jook, introduce modern versions of traditional Korean crafts like pottery and even incorporate the work of contemporary Korean fashion designers and architects. Where The Times’s Restaurant Critic Likes to Eat 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

But just as Jamie Glover's production offers a startling moment when we are plunged into total darkness, experiencing the terror of blindness, more seethes beneath the surface than is initially apparent. A Voyage Round My Father 2010-09-07T21:30:00Z

Pandora, who bears a startling resemblance to the portrait Hendrick carries of his long-dead wife, seems a likely candidate for the job. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z

Inexplicably, the puzzle box begins to solve itself, opening the door and bringing Harry face to face with Pinhead, who has startling plans for Harry and himself. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Zach Woods’ Jared is one of the most quietly startling characters in television today. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

At its best, the format yielded something startling and brightly ephemeral. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

He has also dabbled in other modes of expression, recording music and photographing startling landscape images. Isaac Marion’s ‘Warm Bodies,’ in theaters this Friday, is a portrait of zombie/human love 2013-01-26T04:43:16Z

It’s a great trick and one that is as displacing and startling as Neo bending over backwards as bullets fly past him at low speeds. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Savages was described by the New York Times as a "boisterously stylish crime book", and a "startling bid for attention" upon publication last year. Oliver Stone eyes tale of California dope dealers 2011-03-21T10:12:32Z

And in the series’ first two hours, the results of that embedding, with ICE operations in New York, Charlotte, N.C., and El Paso can be startling and engrossing. ‘Immigration Nation’ Review: The Banality of Deportation 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

For “Light,” one of the new Kander-Miranda songs, painting in ethereal music a portrait of Manhattanhenge, he asked for a more unpredictable spacing of the dissonant chords that bring it to such a startling close. John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

The misconception might also have something to do with Davison’s startling youth. Jack Davison’s Throwback to a Golden Age of Editorial Portraiture 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

The violence spills over to startling effect in neighboring Rwanda, where members of Gabriel’s Tutsi family are caught up in a blood bath. A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

What remained in his playing was startling: a smooth legato in his improvising, dynamically even, almost lapidary; a manner of accompanying soloists so silky it was almost provocative. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

On the cover is perhaps the most startling image in the collection, one of a subgenre that is especially jarring: what might be called excisionist works. Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs? 2013-04-11T16:58:00Z

Instead, contradictory impulses arrive in a startling sequence. Dance Review: Bront?s and Medea, Bent Into New Forms 2011-03-17T22:53:06Z

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Steve Keister produced a startling series of abstract sculptures, which he displayed overhead in galleries, hanging them by nearly invisible filaments. Steve Keister: ‘USOs: 1978-1981’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The potential break with dance is startling at a theater that has had exceptionally strong links to the form since 1960, when Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the Twentieth Century became its resident company. Dance Leaders Deplore Cuts in Belgium 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The supporting-acting winners capped remarkable years, Mo'Nique startling fans with dramatic depths previously unsuspected in the actress known for lowbrow comedy and the Austrian-born Waltz leaping to fame with his first big Hollywood role. Bigelow and "Hurt Locker" win big at Oscars 2010-03-08T05:49:00Z

It’s a startling portrait of the mechanics of complicity, of the intergenerational pathology of silence. A Debut Novel Probes the Difficult Lives of Arab-American Women 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The satiric opening song provided a startling counterpoint to the surprisingly tragic stories that followed. Anonymous Oscar ballot: Publicist gives "Roma" 7, "Vice" 3, "Can You Ever Forgive Me" 2 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - This is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z

And here's the really startling bit: in all that time, no security software raised the alarm. How Flame has changed everything for online security firms 2012-06-16T23:05:51Z

The most startling revelation of the book is that when they met, Jenner had been on hormone replacement therapy for four and a half years and had a bust size of 36B. Caitlyn Jenner on transitioning: ‘It was hard giving old Bruce up. He still lives inside me’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

But it only recently entered the consciousness of the fashion industry, and it did so with startling force. A rhythm travels from black sororities to a Paris runway — and now to Seventh Avenue

The other startling thing was the diversity of newer American writing. Lee Siegel may be right ? the American novel is no longer great 2010-07-07T12:34:00Z

On Monday Mr. Brown, Mr. Kuribayashi, Mr. Russell and Mr. Whitney — as if linked by strands of silk — moved through rigorous, sculptural positions with a startling airiness. Dance Review: Pilobolus Collaborates With Dan Zanes 2010-07-20T21:27:00Z

After several memorable Mozart recordings, they take on the music of Rameau here, bringing the same startling zest for innovation and untamed dynamism to a dazzling selection of vocal and instrumental selections from his operas. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

As I looked and listened, the literal met the abstract to create a startling moment of stillness. ECM Album Covers by Manfred Eicher 2012-12-30T05:20:27Z

This is stylish trash, shot to look as if it were made during the period in which it takes place, with a mixture of gauzy, dreamlike imagery and startling, graphic intimacy. `The Paperboy' delivers gooey, sleazy cheese 2012-10-03T22:40:24Z

The orchestra sometimes swells with startling Expressionist angst. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Parsons, best known as Sheldon on the blockbuster sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” has remarkable control of Michael’s feyness, and it’s startling the way he melts it away to reveal an almost heartbreaking steeliness. ‘The Boys in the Band’ Review: How Far Have We Come, Really? 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

The stage is nearly perpetually revolving, now counterclockwise, now clockwise, and some of the imagery that passes by in glimpses — bodies depicting aspects of sex, torture, addiction — is startling, tantalizing and deliberately fleeting. ‘John’ at the National Theater in London 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

But with its startling melding of three faces into one, it anticipates something a Japanese Magritte might do. Two group shows at Seattle Art Museum worth checking out 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

What was more startling — though strangely fitting — were the puddles on the pavement outside. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

She was the exact age that Win had been when Eddie first met her, and they bore a startling resemblance. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky set the same text as the final movement of “Symphony of Psalms”; Schütz’s version seems just as fresh and startling. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

At a time when so much is written about the importance of reducing our footprint on the earth, he had managed to compose a zero-fingerprint string quartet of startling complexity and beauty. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Here goes: “The tall, slender, golden-haired young woman fidgeting by the hall table fastened her startling green eyes on the closed door at the left of the hall.” Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z

"This fabulously enjoyable read will keep you entertained and rooting for the protagonist until the very end, while delivering startling truths about cricket and about Sri Lanka," said chair Margaret Busby. Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2012 Commonwealth book prize 2012-06-08T14:58:40Z

Forty-four Oscar nominations accrued to last year’s slate — which, with 25 films, represents a startling rate of return. Perspective | Now in its fifth edition, Middleburg Film Festival offers respite from all things Weinstein 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

It’s touching and startling to see these men show such tenderness at this innocent spectacle, especially because all three are gangbangers. | 'A Better Life': Drifting Apart, Struggling Together 2011-06-23T21:17:27Z

Still, as albums bearing arcane language, startling solecisms and quixotic musical structures go, Railway Architecture is probably the best of the year. New band of the day ? No 870: Silvery 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z

Nevertheless, it is startling to observe that his sensibility and knack for unsettling imagery were already formed. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z

Most startling are the images of Warhol laid out on the aesthetician’s table like a beatific corpse. An Ellsworth Kelly for Football Fans 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The music was startling: on occasion ugly, on occasion strangely beautiful. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z

But the book makes the startling choice to frame it also as a loss of innocence. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In his memory, the sudden intimacy seems startling still. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z

And during a brief trip through the Caribbean part of her catalog, she remade “Baby Boy” as startling Jamaican big band jazz. Review: Beyoncé Is Bigger Than Coachella 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Its most original elements are the startling, hawk-like angles of Aaron Eckhart's nose and chin, which compel obedience and team spirit from the embattled Marines through sheer sharpness and pointedness. "Battle: Los Angeles": Bizarre fantasy of imperial decline 2011-03-10T02:01:00Z

David Berman became a cult hero singer-songwriter largely because he never said much, making his public expiation all the more startling. David Berman was the cult musician who went away for 10 years. What made him finally come back? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

The effect was startling: The fabric of American democracy was disintegrating. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Watch when the camera pushes in for close-ups or makes unexpected movements, as when the aunt arrives and momentarily mistakes another guest for the dead David, startling Phillip. Never Given a Close Look to Hitchcock? Start Here 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

This passage is both typical of this book and startling. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Blunt announcements, startling confessions, mean little snipes… Errors of logic are subtly teased and bad spelling highlighted, the exchanges transformed into surreal little plays. Adam Buxton: 'I was called a smarmy, greased-up dwarf' 2013-05-11T17:00:03Z

“Doing her own singing, Buckley is a rich, startling vocalist who if anything seems to under-excite the crowds she performs for. Yet she is also persuasive as a reluctant, unreliable parent.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Masked Singer’ and ‘Wisting’ 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Yet the end effect is startling, different—and very, very good. First Listen to U2's New Album, "Songs of Innocence," Released Free at Apple Watch Event 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It's stylish trash, shot to look as if it were made during the period in which it takes place, with a mixture of gauzy, dreamlike imagery and startling, graphic intimacy. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-10-03T20:03:15Z

Around her, a string orchestra provides cushioning, cinematic expansiveness and sometimes desperate turbulence, while electronics add flickers of rhythm and startling, ominous swaths of noise. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

It all comes together so gracefully, and with such startling impact. ‘The Suit’: A fitting personal and political allegory 2014-03-21T23:14:10Z

Lately, moments like the one I was experiencing now had been coming on with startling frequency, and my usual approach at management, which included regular exercise, psychotherapy and medication, seemed woefully inadequate. How Joe Rogan does what he does: My day with America's most famous podcaster 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

In a series of three compact paintings, all from 2010, three bands of radiant color create a sky and sea with startling lucidity, a low sun searing even as it dips. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Her grandmotherly manner makes it all the more startling when she says things like: “I could have gone over there and shot the whole lot of them.” In Australia, Reality TV Tackles Immigration 2011-06-21T17:18:17Z

And it was startling to have a movie star of Samuel Jackson’s fame, and of his caliber, to do that. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

The most startling example of that is an al-Qaida style video starring Heath Ledger’s Joker. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

That Mr. Cole then modeled maturity and vulnerability for him — talking about his difficult relationship with his stepfather, advocating for financial responsibility, admitting his own stubbornness about hip-hop’s shifting tides — was startling and impressive. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Stephen, the protagonist of “The Long Room,” catches an unexpected view of himself in a mirror and sees “a bare, forked animal,” a startling and perfect fragment of defamiliarization plucked from Shakespeare. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

His most startling and creative conception is the title character. Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Yet the human variety he taps into is vigorous and startling. 3 Seattle gallery shows to check out in January 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Apocalyptic visions, social critique and startling lyricism are interwoven into his life's work. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z

Here, the Projectionist muses on the morning’s most startling surprises and omissions. 2022 Oscars Nominations: Snubs and Surprises for Lady Gaga and Jared Leto 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Crane was 6 when they moved to the city, and perhaps the startling transition at a young age triggered a lifelong habit of collecting things. Elizabeth Crane finds a new place and her voice in Newburgh, N.Y. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

And, of course, the exhilaration from unearthing a startling fact that just may lead to another startling fact, and another. All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism 2012-06-08T18:19:24Z

What's even more startling is that, at 46, he just made one of the best albums of his career. 'Pale Emperor' ushers in the return of Marilyn Manson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s gotten mainstream audiences to embrace a startling degree of schadenfreude, cheering on the demise of their on-screen counterparts. Hollywood's summer of revolution 2011-09-14T18:01:00Z

Still, the younger Ellison has scaled Hollywood's rungs of influence and power with startling rapidity despite scarcely a dozen films to her credit. Oracle CEO Ellison's daughter pans for Oscar gold 2013-02-23T11:09:09Z

The music becomes a neat, irresistible package that delivers a burst of emotion — something so startling and immediate that it’s more welcome with every return of the chorus. Tove Lo’s ‘Lady Wood’: More Professional Than Passionate 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The result was startling, dazzling, and wrenching in equal measure. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Some have even called it atonal because, while its harmonies consist essentially of chords, the startling relationships between them defy normal practice. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z

I liked the startling dissonance between the drink’s appearance and its flavor, but I felt a little guilty. Some drinks leave a sour taste in your mouth. And that can be a good thing. 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Among these is the sometimes startling vigor with which we're reminded how very comic "Romeo and Juliet" is until a supporting character's pivotal death late in the play. Reviews of some fine ? and free ? local outdoor theater 2010-07-15T21:18:00Z

Later, things turn ugly for the Night's Watch, while Daenerys asserts herself in startling fashion. TV highlights 22/04/2013 2013-04-22T06:00:15Z

The ending is sudden and startling and — to me, anyway — a bit of a psychological stretch. Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole. 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

The first shoot, in November, 2015, produced one of the most startling pictures. A Portrait of Prepubescent Style in South Wales 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Westeros bears a startling resemblance to England in the period of the Wars of the Roses. George RR Martin's fantasy is not far from reality 2011-07-26T11:52:51Z

His cleverness culminates in the documentary’s startling final act, where Ollie shows how the artifice of filmmaking can mirror the lies we tell ourselves about love. ‘There Is No “I” in Threesome’ Review: Monogamy Alternatives 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

What ensues is both expected and startling as Jason turns DIY exorcist. Drugs and the devil spice up 'Inner Demons' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s startling metrical switches in the Scherzo flew by without startling. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

This was startling, but it made intuitive sense, even though their styles differ greatly, visually and otherwise. Groening and Barry Take New York 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

No expressive device, from startling fortissimos to time-stopping pauses, is given short shrift. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The moment is startling and funny – also instructive. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dance of Reality’ takes a look at his painful childhood in Chile

North Korea successfully tests a hydrogen bomb, although this achievement is tarnished somewhat by the fact that the explosion causes the death, by startling, of the isolated nation’s lone remaining chicken. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

While he is introduced committing some of the most startling kills in cinematic history, the majestically maniacal last act of “Chain Saw” shifts our perspective on him from hulking slayer to stammering stooge. ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

He conducted the U.S. premiere of a gorgeous new work for cello and orchestra commissioned by the orchestra as well as the West Coast premiere of his big, startling orchestral work “Totentanz.” Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

But the breadth of its support in acting categories was startling: In Best Actor, for instance, nominations went to not just past Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown but also Milo Ventimiglia. The 5 Biggest Surprises of the 2017 Emmy Nominations 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Those who saw her Oscar-nominated performance in 2010's "Winter's Bone" already were aware of her startling screen presence - her natural beauty, instincts and maturity beyond her years. Review: `Hunger Games' should satisfy fans 2012-03-20T01:17:12Z

The detail etched into each work here is startling, yet none of it is delivered with the kind of look-at-me self-consciousness with which some groups invest their performances. This is Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets – review 2013-06-20T19:10:00Z

This sign, so startling amid the context of polite ballroom behavior, changes their relationship in our eyes forever. Dance Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ From New York City Ballet 2012-05-21T22:16:24Z

A satellite fair that takes highlights of the annual World Science Festival and transports them outside Manhattan, this daylong adventure offers more than a few startling demonstrations. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

I spent the nineties growing up in San Francisco, which, like many cities in that decade, churned with swirls of startling change. Welcome to the Future: Middle-Class Housing Projects 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Best of all with the Emmys, there were startling surprises among the winners - and none undeserving. Emmycast with Jane Lynch presiding was a winner 2011-09-19T10:54:16Z

It was, once more, a startling and joyful three hours. Bruce Springsteen's Hyde Park show proved artists aren't the best judges of venues 2012-07-16T12:47:00Z

But a recent 3-D screening of the movie reveals visual delights, especially virtual aerial footage and such clever — even startling — detail as the sight of white gliders soaring and scattering like geese. ‘Planes’: Disney takes to the skies for high adventure 2013-08-08T19:41:46Z

It added up to a startling detour from the glossy world of supermodels — “subversion,” in Ms. Day’s own phrase. Corinne Day, Photographer of Kate Moss, Is Dead 2010-09-01T17:20:00Z

That is probably a startling statement to some. Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

A bass clarinet's startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Not really, though the script has a beautifully solid structure and the ending is both startling and powerful. Review: The Compassion of ‘A Thousand Ways (Part Two)’ 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Still startling despite its age, the piece is encountered relatively infrequently, mostly because it demands a vocalist willing to do absurd, terrifying and potentially dangerous things with his voice. Music Review: Cantata Profana at Roulette 2013-05-24T21:04:28Z

A climactic shootout with startling strobe-like lighting effects is undeniably impressive. ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Review: a 19th-Century Outlaw Tale 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Never mind the mountain lioness subplot, the novel’s most startling feature is the marriage at its center: the narrator’s life with her husband, their steadiness and mutual enchantment, their kindness to each other. A Thousand-Page Novel — Made Up of Mostly One Sentence — Captures How We Think Now 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

They are right in front of you, which is quite startling. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z

Oh, and if you think things are looking up when the Resistance starts fighting back, watch out for some startling revenge-minded acts. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, the supporting-actor category went relatively according to plan, and after a startling snub by the Golden Globes, Sam Elliott found himself back in the race. SAG Award Nominations: Emily Blunt Leads; Regina King Is Snubbed 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Its opening moments — among the most famous in the Bausch oeuvre — are as startling as ever. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

On the surface, this is a startling coup for New York. L.A. Phil chief Deborah Borda to leave for New York 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But startling revelations are hardly the only criterion for a good Nixon biography. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Her structures skipped beats, made sly harmonic turns and took startling melodic leaps. Music Review: Her Folksy Parlor, Crowded With Family and Friends 2011-05-15T22:02:17Z

It’s de rigueur for purists to complain about contemporary Shakespeare adaptations stripping back his language to the nub, but the kinetic visual translations the film makes for the missing text remain quite startling. Romeo + Juliet at 20: how Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The “re, mi, do” feels musically resolved, he explained, after which “do, so” — the alien response — feels like an appropriately startling interjection. John Williams on ‘Indiana Jones’ and His Favorite Scores 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

The woman's mother is a "pob" – a spirit that "feeds on humans and livestock" – and this appetite is fully revealed in one startling scene. Cannes 2012: Mekong Hotel ? review 2012-05-18T12:21:39Z

Some of the images "are interesting, even startling," Scott says, but "the action is more frantic than thrilling and the sense of wonder rarely materializes." 'Tomorrowland' is no utopia, reviews say 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The first sip was startling, and I'm sure I reacted with all the grace and dignity you might expect from a 10-year-old. An ode to coffee milk, New England's sweetest sip 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

It was hard for my parents, and that made it harder for me, but I no longer see this as an unacceptable and startling flaw. Andrew Solomon, ‘Far From the Tree,’ Parents and Children 2012-11-18T22:48:41Z

"American Idol" remains Fox's centerpiece, as it has been for the past decade, but the show has lost a startling quarter of its audience this season. Fox has 3 new shows on fall schedule 2012-05-14T14:24:14Z

The confidence is startling – what other 14-year-old would dare wear his bass guitar so high up his chest? On the talent trail at Other Voices 2012 2012-12-06T10:54:00Z

The Vatican's acid pen was even more startling given Rainaldi's impeccable credentials. AP Interview: Pope sculptor gets second chance 2011-09-28T11:46:04Z

It’s startling to see Carey, usually volubly chatty, weighing her words so carefully in the confessional and draining them of their typical backspin of askew wit. Review: Mariah's World Tarnishes a Perfect Image 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

This startling appendage is not as outrageous as you might suppose in the context of Williams’s play, a quick flop on Broadway in its 1977 New York debut. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z

The morose conviction he injects throughout the show’s entire performance is why it’s still startling. The Real Legacy of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast 2013-10-31T09:45:05Z

The fall show is meant to be a little startling. Antiques: Olympics Memorabilia in London Auctions and Museums 2012-07-12T22:41:56Z

It was sweet, then awkward, then startling in a way that made me wonder if life ever really ends. Perspective | McCoy Tyner’s eternal return 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

This is the only explanation for Cameron's startling lack of success in the current election campaign. David Cameron feels the hand of history where it hurts 2010-04-25T11:00:00Z

And when they try, the film erupts into startling spasms of graphic violence, which Saulnier intends to reflect “the awkward, brutal, sloppy” nature of the real thing. How D.C. punk influenced one of the year’s most anticipated horror movies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

This statement, by homework research guru Harris Cooper, of Duke University, is startling to hear, no matter which side of the homework debate you’re on. Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

If you look a pig closely in the eyes, it’s startling; there’s something so inexplicably human. Experience: I accidentally bought a giant pig 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Far more startling and heartbreaking, though, are the scenes of Bonnie at home with Judy’s daughters. ‘The Fire that Took Her’ Review: An Unflinching Portrait of Pain 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Quinn’s secretive behavior and many furtive appointments also make it startling that Toby is one of the few people around who seems to be genuinely concerned. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z

Only briefly in the recital’s first half did Mr. Hamelin unleash his most startling power, in his own “Chaconne,” a frosty set of variations that deals in brutal poundings and ghostly apparitions. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Among her projects with Mr. Beard was her startling redesign of “The End Of The Game.” Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Life of Pi rose a startling 48% from its debut weekend, and has achieved a robust £10.7m after 11 days of release. The Hobbit and Life of Pi keep UK box office in festive spirits 2013-01-02T16:44:58Z

That suicides, even seemingly inexplicable ones, occur in New York is not startling news, of course. The Life and Death of the Therapist Bob Bergeron 2012-03-30T22:47:13Z

For much of this startling story, set in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s, Lee expertly takes you into a shocking American past that harrowingly leads right back to its agonized present. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

There are funny scenes as well as serious ones, and all are played with startling sincerity. Theater Review: In ‘Family Play (1979 to Present),’ Intimate Moments Unfold 2014-05-04T21:42:46Z

But whereas an experimenting Bergman peppered his narrative with startling bursts of imagery, Mr. van Hove abstains from video almost entirely. Review: Two Bergman Films, Adapted on a Philadelphia Stage 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This channel, if inadvertently, is documenting a startling acceleration in the pace of human evolution. Buzzr Presents the Evolution of Game Shows and Ourselves 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

The shift from one in two shades of semigloss plum on a Kelly green background, for example, to another in peach and aqua is startling. Art in Review: ANDY WARHOL: ?Colored Campbell?s Soup Cans? 2011-05-19T19:20:04Z

Anderson narrates the stories with a gorgeous richness and when she breaks into song the effect is startling. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Marian Anderson – Snoopycat: The Adventures of Marian Anderson's Cat Snoopy 2013-01-18T10:16:52Z

Their current craze for dyeing the hair of pet dogs to make them look like other animals has already had some startling results. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

What was startling was the lack of a defined crowd: the rows of the film studios’ white tents that were supposed to shade swarms of fans waiting to get into Hall H were ... empty. At Comic-Con, Small Tribes Rule 2013-07-19T21:30:35Z

Harrison does this repeatedly, stripping back conventions to leave places skewed and startling. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

Printmakers, photographers, and artists who push printmaking and photography into startling new territories grace local art galleries this month. November galleries: Exploring home and bloodlines 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Perhaps that explains the sudden, startling demand for “The Witching Hour,” a series that has been out of print for almost four decades. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: The Return of 'The Witching Hour' 2011-04-08T18:35:42Z

The advent of "freemium" gaming on mobile devices is a trend swiftly crossing over to the serious console market – so it's startling to see something priced on the App Store at £13.99. Apps round-up: XCOM: Enemy Unknown; Avengers Alliance – review 2013-06-29T23:05:15Z

Bernstein brings those qualities to life in his recording, right from what he called the “brusque, startling, pistol-shot of a chord” that opens the movement, immediately followed by “some kind of Bachian finger exercises.” When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The harmonies of the opening measures of the first movement, startling to 18th-century ears, offended some listeners and critics. Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

Unlike "Blood," Harper's startling, stylistically audacious new songs don't reflect the benefit of time and perspective. Ben Harper to play Marymoor Park 2011-08-19T18:27:05Z

Like all horror movies, this is a grossly exaggerated fable, one that arrives by way of its impressive cinematography and interpolated tales at a startling but inevitable conclusion. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z

A few chitchat- and exposition-filled scenes drag a little, but the play redeems itself with its startling ending, which delivers weirdness packed with meaning. One play’s weirdness has meaning; the other just seems to be fooling around 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

If you want to look for reasons behind this return of 80s style, Claire Wilcox suggests, then it might have something to do with the startling similarities between then and now. Club rules: how London dressed up for the 80s 2013-06-22T07:00:12Z

Heart-shaped leaves are veined in startling white, and orchids leap across walkways at eye level. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The ingenuity of “The Babadook” was that it behaved like a well-executed conventional horror movie, only to reveal startling emotional resonance and psychological depths right at the end. Review: In ‘Hereditary,’ the Horror is Slow-Cooked and Homemade 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

‘AMERICAN HONEY’ The British director Andrea Arnold leads a raw and ragged adventure into the heartland, discovering it to be a strangely innocent zone of greed, lust, youthful idiocy and startling natural beauty. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Seen in person, the works in the show have a startling presence, conveying expressions that are by turn anxious, haunted, dignified and reflective, in charcoal and in fluid, brightly colored brushstrokes. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Beyond its startling vivisection of grief, the book's redeeming beauty lies in its precise evocation of a transformative love, filled with tenderness and comic routines. Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z

Nana’s husband is presumed dead, and, in a startling scene, she imagines her father being beheaded by a group of men. ‘Before, Now & Then’ Review: Love and War 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

Within those window openings, he created startling, counterintuitive, exotic things. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

A notable absence is "Cloud Atlas," which used makeup and prosthetics to change actors' race, ethnicity and gender, sometimes to startling effect. The Carpetbagger: 'Hobbit' Ears and Other Makeup Contenders 2012-12-17T16:03:52Z

Silver’s commercial is an advertisement for a cell-phone camera and the processor that it runs on, and it’s both a work of great originality and a startling new direction for the filmmaker. This Week in Cultural Clicks: Sushi Cats, Post-Internet Poetry, and More 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Alongside humor, the startling juxtapositions of Mr. Zorn’s scores often feature elements of jazz, rock, classical, punk, improvisation, klezmer and cartoon and film music. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z

But, after releasing four albums in three years—including two of them, “U.F.O.F.” and “Two Hands,” in the past seven months—the band has come into startling focus. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s startling, this small admission of fault — nearly as rare an occurrence in this hard conversation as eye contact. Review: ‘Quietly’ Rivetingly Revisits the Troubles in Belfast 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Some years back — it’s startling to contemplate just how long ago it was — Mr. Shyamalan was puffed up into a cinematic visionary, hailed on the cover of Newsweek as “The Next Spielberg.” Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Calderoni gives vivid life to some of Mr. Eugenides’s most startling set pieces, including a climactic sequence in a freak show. Review: Shedding Skins in Motus’s Genre-Blurring ‘MDLSX’ at La MaMa 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Kertesz also made a startling confession that he experienced “my most radical moments of happiness” at Auschwitz. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

While attempting to report another advance obituary five years ago, New York Times reporter Robert D. McFadden made a startling discovery: His subject was already dead. How obituaries got a jolt of new life in the Internet era 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

But even her unadorned voice is startling enough to cut through their metronomic brew. Poliça – review 2012-11-06T15:17:42Z

"He has an uncanny intuition, an instinctive appreciation for understanding the current zeitgeist and acts on it in a way that to me is startling," said Lange. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T12:54:13Z

"But absent some truly startling revelation, I don't believe it will change his overall marketability." In family court, a reckoning for Mel Gibson's career 2010-11-23T01:05:00Z

It’s startling to recall how revolutionary the original vision was, and how rigid its strictest precepts were. Movie Review: ?Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,? a Documentary 2012-04-25T03:03:02Z

It was a depression that didn't entirely lift even after he had written his play, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco – a startling 2001 debut that spluttered and fizzed like an out-of-control firework. Gary Owen: Bridgend and beyond 2010-04-07T20:45:00Z

The most startling picture in the body of work is “Bowl of Flowers with Insects,” which is probably Saul’s sweetest, most earnest still life. Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

A. O. Scott designated this indie romantic comedy a Critic’s Pick in his review for The New York Times and said its “sweet, soft finish is both refreshing and startling.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Guest Book’ and ‘Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

“The objects themselves are in transition between a cultural object and a natural object,” the artist Mark Dion, a professor and mentor to Hayden at Columbia, said of these startling hybrid forms. Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The daytime soaps are being bug-zapped from the networks one by one, disappearing into oblivion after decades of reliably dishing out startling coincidences and staggering secrets. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z

The performance is startling, amusing and appalling all at once. The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Although it is a strain keeping up appearances, Kidman could rely on the startling effect her mere presence tends to have. Nicole Kidman in Cannes: her tortuous journey to Queen of the Croisette 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

For me after 50 years, it’s a startling, revisionist déjà vu. Woodstock’s Contradictions, 50 Years Later 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

The dizzying breadth of ambition of some of the films you dreamed up is truly startling. Twitpitch challenge: results revealed 2010-10-01T14:57:00Z

Born in Colombia and based in Canada, Lido Pimienta fuses Colombian traditions and electronics in startling and satisfying ways on her second album, “Miss Colombia.” Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Then, she asked the startling: Did I believe in Jesus? Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z

But the droll tone is effective, if sometimes startling. Review: In ‘Everything’s Fine,’ the Discomfort of Adolescence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Florentine government set up a formal competition between the creators of these startling works. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z

A white dress with puffed sleeves provides startling relief to all the bright colors; it’s like a quiet ghost. Elaborate paper gowns blend worlds of art, fashion, literature 2013-12-06T22:32:52Z

Now name me one image in either "Iron Man" that's as functional, startling and expressive as the two I just mentioned. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z

It’s practically Streisandian, startling in its utter rejection of the now, and ripe for some young singer on “Glee” or “Idol” to butcher. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

Luciana Paris, from the Ballet Theater corps, had moments of startling yet subtle electricity. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z

Dead Generation rhymes generation with imagination and betrays a startling paucity of same. New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z

It’s startling how much controversy “Cruising” stirred up among those who thought its representations would feed homophobic prejudices. Movie Review: ‘Interior. Leather Bar.,’ Spun From Recreated Lost Footage 2014-03-04T22:36:00Z

Then along comes Norman Ohler, a soft-spoken 46-year-old novelist from Berlin, who rummages through military archives and emerges with this startling fact: The Third Reich was on drugs. High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

For one thing, the kids sound like kids, which, considering their circumstances, is startling in itself. “Caught,” Reviewed: A Podcast That Captures the Voices of Incarcerated Kids 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cracknell again combines profound empathy for an unhappy heroine with a startling use of techniques more commonly associated with lurid genre movies. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Within two days of their arrival, President Obama made his startling announcement about the United States moving “to end an outdated approach” to relations with Cuba, casting the project in a hopeful and historic light. ‘Cuba: The Conversation Continues’ and ‘Live in Cuba’ Expand a Musical Dialogue 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Memorable, too, is the astonishing Psychology for the Fighting Man, a work of startling empathy and humanity, produced in 1943 and distributed to American forces. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z

I remember less about the details of the work itself than I do about the moment it ended — a startling return to reality. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

They are the still startling legacy of a true pioneer of photography and ecological awareness. Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review 2013-02-03T09:00:03Z

Inspired, he walked into a shop in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and came across a daguerreotype — an early form of photography, made on highly polished metal plates that is almost startling in its hologram-like effect. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Near the end of the cycle, in front of a still fountain, he flung out the final word of “Der Wegweiser” with a quiet disgust that was startling, given the performance’s intimacy. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z

Monroe’s lyrics conjure vicious images, but she consistently delivers her most startling words with an almost paralyzing delicacy. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

But it's his proficiency as a comic that's even more startling. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-30T06:00:18Z

That said, Enslaved is a richly drawn adventure whose plot and startling good looks urge you to see what happens next. This week's new games 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Finally, there was the aforementioned alluring Red Woman of the episode title, who in the startling concluding moments was revealed to actually be an Old Gray Mare. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

This led to some startling juxtapositions when one mood was abruptly contrasted with another, as if Bostridge were speaking in tongues, leaping from character to character. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

It drives her songwriting; her spare and drip-drop percussive arrangements; her light, high singing; her startling videos; and the live transmission of her music. Review: Movement Drives the Music at FKA twigs’s ‘Congregata’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The answer is the letter Z in Scrabble, a thought prompted by the startling fact reported this week that Polish is the second-most spoken language in the UK. Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable 2013-02-01T15:39:43Z

The best destinations — Boardwalk, Park Place — are the ones that deliver truly startling plot twists. Books of The Times: Caught - By Harlan Coben - Never Look Away - By Linwood Barclay - Mom and Pop Thrillers 2010-03-25T22:42:00Z

My husband: the term is a bit startling, even today. Tony Kushner: 'It's a crazy time' 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z

“The Burial of Kojo” is a near-virtuoso work, a feast of emotion, nuance and beauty, and a startling feature directing debut. ‘The Burial of Kojo’ Review: A Dazzling Modern Fable 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mark Jones Last episode of a series that has purported to tell the stories of Britain's 50 most startling historical buildings. TV highlights 05/07/2013 2013-07-05T05:59:00Z

Perhaps the most startling debut albums in jazz this year were “Fly or Die,” by the trumpeter Jaimie Branch, and “Mannequins,” by the drummer Kate Gentile. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

And that makes his new album, “Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest,” especially startling. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

A startling number of the actors chosen to play America’s founding fathers are British, including Mr. Barnes and Mr. Spall; Washington is played by an Irish actor, Jason O’Mara. ‘Sons of Liberty’ on History Looks at American Revolution 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Monk’s musical DNA had already taken root by the time he started recording for Riverside, and that connection gives rise to one of the most startling performances in the boxed set. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but incomplete. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Elle is 14 going on 44 in terms of skill—but can still project the manner of pure giddy girl. She exhibits startling depths of emotion. Ginger & Rosa: Best Friends. Forever? 2013-03-15T20:02:09Z

She wrung startling drama from traditionalist songs turned contemporary in a set that spanned folklore, humor, grief and rage. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Instead, Mr. Smith and Mr. Naifeh diligently examine the development of his ideas, his techniques, his startling ability to inhale lessons from other painters and transform their innovations into his own. Books of The Times: ?Van Gogh: The Life,? by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 2011-10-20T21:57:30Z

The first movie version was shot in Morgan City in 1917, a silent film that earned $ 1 million - startling by standards of the day. Tarzan's cry returns to Louisiana oil town 2012-04-13T17:59:09Z

And yet he has always managed, with startling rhetorical nerve, to define it as work. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z

At the Galerie Berès, long renowned for its sophisticated works by avant-garde artists of the late 19th century, the change of direction is startling. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

The revelations to be found in hundreds of artifacts never before seen outside Saudi Arabia are startling. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

Mandelbrot was not the first, but with his startling fractals concept he created a visual manifesto for a non-Euclidean universe. Beno?t B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art 2010-10-19T12:12:00Z

Not even five minutes into the album, a startling saxophone burst comes through, entwining with Lamar’s rap lines. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And since a Keystone Kops style of mayhem has been the default setting for “Errors” for many decades, the more startling approach would have been to turn down the violence and look for the poetry. | 'The Comedy of Errors': Giving Shakespeare His Sombrero and Kazoo 2011-03-18T11:00:00Z

It's both hallucinatory and startling but always strangely beautiful. `Anna Karenina' inspires 5 super-stylized films 2012-11-15T22:38:12Z

She, too, is in for some rather startling news, as Dennis Kelly's vivid thriller nears its denouement. TV highlights 12/02/2013 2013-02-12T06:59:01Z

Then a startling twist zags the film into unknown territory. ‘Significant Other’ Review: Backpacking Is a Trip 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

You are the boss here, and that’s a startling development in such an established and formal art form. How does watching a Seattle Symphony concert from home compare to a live concert? 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

Her musical and dramatic impulses seem indivisible; her timing, her boldness and her startling individuality are still thrilling. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

The video was a startling coincidence of science, culture and environmental disaster, and I thought of it often as I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s excellent new book. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

The performances overall hit a note of bland competence — there’s neither the entertaining hamminess nor the startling ineptitude that you often got in “Game of Thrones.” ‘House of the Dragon’ Review: Domesticating ‘Game of Thrones’ 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The story was a startling correction to the idea of the Italian Mafia as historic. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Even 150 years ago, the “crowds, the rush and the dizzying range of foods” during lunchtime in New York were startling to visitors. Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z

The startling exception is Judas Priest’s epic shredding of “Diamonds & Rust.” How Judas Priest turned Joan Baez’s ‘Diamonds & Rust’ into a ‘metal monster’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“But this is an epoch of sudden changes and startling surprises. What may appear absurd today will assume a serious aspect tomorrow.” These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

But the blindingly fast cuts and the inflated reprises of the franchise’s greatest hits — the startling undead Dobermans of the first film are back — yield diminishing returns. Review: Alice Returns in ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Savages” is his 13th and most boisterously stylish crime book, his gutsiest and most startling bid for attention. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z

The beatings she takes here, filmed by Kusama with the kind of blunt, unfetishised frankness that male action directors rarely direct at female protagonists, are entirely startling. Changing face: how Nicole Kidman gets under the skin in Destroyer 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

One day he abruptly awakes, and the moment is startling and emotional. Pop culture still fails queer people: Sanitizing LGBT romance is a tradition Hollywood can’t seem to break 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Like every other expectation that's been creatively and effectively exploded, I believe we're being set up for his greatest, most startling and satisfying revelation yet. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The topography depicted in these shots is startling, starkly insisting that we humans really do live on a rock. ‘Atlantis’ Review: A Bleak Apocalypse Love Story 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The result is a blend of startling lyrical depth and slow, whirlpools of murky music. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

During the performance, I was stuck again by the startling middle section of the second movement, which, without warning, enters some cosmic realm. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

Their meme-readiness has clearly been a factor in the startling omnipresence of the series since its Sept. 17 premiere. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

So “Packing for Mars” is as startling as it is funny, even if its strategic aim is to tell you more than you need to know. Books of The Times: In Mary Roach?s ?Packing for Mars,? the Gross Stuff 2010-08-08T22:38:00Z

The remarkable achievement of Robin’s thoroughly researched, cogently argued work is that it makes a compelling case for what is, initially, a startling argument. How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

But for Strauss to venture into autobiography, to turn the music on himself, was still startling. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

In “The Man I Love” pas de deux, she reveals sudden darknesses — those sharp, bleak quarter-twists of the body — that made it psychologically startling. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z

They were in the audience, which I found startling. Goodbye, Dave 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

King, an amateur historian, has an appreciation for the startling detail and the circuitous connection. A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Asked Tuesday on NBC's "Today" about reaction to comments in which Sheen called himself "a total rock star from Mars," among other startling descriptions, he shrugged off the reaction. Sheen media blitz heads to Twitter after TV shows 2011-03-02T13:01:11Z

Lanthimos, his camera gliding through gilded corridors and down stone staircases — in exquisitely patterned light and shadow, with weird lenses and startling angles — choreographs an elaborate pageant of decorum and violence, claustrophobia and release. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

This racial mix was startling and different for American audiences at the time. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

These startling and even confrontational vignettes – part of a growing and evolving street-theater program called “Revolutionary City,” which explores the social conflict of the Revolutionary era from a variety of perspectives — are not isolated events. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z

There is nothing here to unsettle an interwar West End audience, until Priestley takes a startling break from the formula. Time and the Conways – review 2013-03-11T17:48:10Z

It’s a story of such startling, shocking power and ugliness that it seemingly screams for inclusion in the film. The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Hope Springs” is an oddly ambitious blend of bland humor and startling insight into the realities of married life. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s the deathbed scene between Dougal and Colum that injects a startling grace into an episode that is suffused with death and delusion. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 12: Deal With the Devil 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

There’s a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness. ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’: Boys confront a mysterious death 2014-04-03T20:49:10Z

But from the beginning, there are really startling phrases. Book Talk: Great Reformer biography links Pope Francis to Argentine roots 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

At this point, Wolf Trap has an impressive track record: a startling number of successful American singers today have passed through its program. Summer opera: Wine, women and Gassmann 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Several insist on their innocence; others admit their guilt and await their fates with startling equanimity. | ?On Death Row?: Werner Herzog?s Documentary Series ?On Death Row? 2012-03-08T23:18:29Z

And you realize anew, with a startling pang, that this person doesn’t at all want to be talking about what she’s talking about. Review: Carey Mulligan Tells a Harrowing Tale of ‘Girls & Boys’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Those results are often startling to the subjects and rife with racial stereotypes, Foeman found. Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I’m also black. And I don’t hate Rachel Dolezal 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Considering that sex is an activity almost everyone participates in and thinks about even more, it’s startling and depressing to think about how few movies connect their characters’ lives with their erotic drives. Blue Is the Warmest Color: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex? 2013-10-24T19:38:46Z

These were awful people, but they were also damaged people, with Culkin, Snook and Strong all able to show flashes of startling vulnerability just below the cashmere plate mail. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

“In the context of classically trained musicians, he is quite startling, as they are hardly given to personal theater,” Ms. Gladstone said. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

The museum’s governing board, which includes victims’ relatives, was committed to including an exhibit on the subject; it is located in an alcove, centered around startling digital stills instead of explicit moving images. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Salonen made this a fabulously flexible ensemble, with an unusual appetite for new music and startling new challenges. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

It was a startling move that showed in many ways how he was ahead of the curve. Coming Full Circle After a Pause 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

And in a 2018 scholarly article, he used similar approach to advance a startling claim: that an earlier version of Leviticus, rather than forbidding sex between men, had actually permitted it. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Pieter Hugo, the young South African who made his name with his startling series The Hyena Men, is the only photographer here to print big and bold. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z

Her prose is instantly recognisable, with its long, coolly balanced sentences and its precise, startling imagery. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z

While traveling together at speed across the floor, Ms. Perzhu inclined her face to rest on the palm of his extended hand — a moment of startling tenderness dramatically sustained. ‘America’s Ballroom Challenge,’ a Dance Series on PBS 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Dust-flecked beams of sunlight slice through shadows; green-robed dervishes glide down the Nile in boats; the turrets of a mosque pierce a startling blue sky. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

“I’m not great at realistic gore, but I do enjoy the shockingness and startling aspect of when unrealistic gore happens,” he explained. ‘Transformers’ and a Zombie Comedy: What ‘Invincible’ Is Made Of 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

But it reveals only one facet of this Belgian artist's startling talents. Review: At SAM, Cris Brodahl's work is striking in its methods, content 2010-12-23T21:29:08Z

It was a startling hard reset for someone on an accelerated path to country stardom. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

And the plot, while reminding you of many other plots, journeys ahead in its own startling way in unpredictable directions. She Rotates, She Floats, She Glides on Her Toes 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

What is startling about these Matrix gigs is just how empty the club sounds at the end of each song. “We’re your local Velvet Underground”: This season’s one essential box set is the “Complete Matrix Tapes” 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Named for one of his earliest pieces, the album offers a version of the “Dorian” Short Service, hymns and responsories: beauty everywhere, and a few startling harmonic turns. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Technological advances are often based on older, simple ideas applied in startling ways. Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 2012-09-28T17:20:02Z

That self-assurance is why it’s startling to watch her composure crack across a fitful evening that might work better if the production felt less remote. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Childish Gambino’s new song “This Is America” opened at No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, helped by a provocative video — continuous dancing interspersed with startling scenes of riots and shootings — that quickly went viral. Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Hits No. 1, Boosted by a Provocative Video 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

His first student film, “Murder,” stages in just over a minute a fatal stabbing by penknife: a killing without motive or context, rendered with startling detail and economy. 2010-02-12T18:53:00Z

In the end, working at Victoria’s Secret didn’t necessarily make me better with women, it simply brought my image of them into a more realistic and startling focus. How to fold a thong: A straight man working at Victoria’s Secret 2013-05-07T00:00:00Z

Balmès, who was also the cinematographer, weaves together startling footage of the aftermath of technological transformation. ‘Sing Me a Song’ Review: Technology vs. the Contemplative Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Ronan Farrow, on the other hand, is, as a narrator, much better — but for one startling weakness. Perspective | Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

The startling results are sophisticated pop recordings that sound as if they were produced in a studio with live musicians. Review: ‘Presenting Princess Shaw,’ a YouTube Star in-the-Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Health experts are warning schools and parents after a Pennsylvania kindergartner reportedly ingested hand sanitizer on the second day of class, and was hospitalized with a startling .23 blood alcohol level. Kindergartener reportedly ingests hand sanitizer at school, hospitalized for .23 BAC 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

In a more startling swerve away from comedy, Lee at one point exclaims, “I don’t know what to do with all of this pain.” Review | ‘Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes’ veers jarringly from comedy to darkness 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

What’s startling here is how clumsy and uncertain his attempts seem. Review: In ‘The BFG,’ a Director and an Actor With Big Shoes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The solo for Mr. Weinert is too long, but it’s the evening’s most startling and successfully expressive dance. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z

“In the wake of a startling late run ascension to the number one spot, ‘Jumanji’ continues to energize the early 2018 box office marketplace while this weekend taking on a host of wide release newcomers.” Box Office: 'Jumanji' dominates MLK weekend, 'The Post' leads newcomer 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

I guess this counts as a minor spoiler, but Batman receives a startling beatdown in this movie, one that belongs more to the universe of crime films than superhero fantasy. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z

But this is a quibble, for even in chapters that task us, something useful — even startling — appears. Review | A look at the life-saving power of essays 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

His impatience -- and absolute lack of ambiguity -- is startling. What assisted suicide really looks like 2011-05-25T15:01:00Z

That startling, unpleasant image reignites the uncertainty and fear that rise in Marta like bile, as her fragmented memories struggle to focus. How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman – review 2013-02-08T08:00:01Z

Photograph: Alamy It was a startling, surreal sight made all the more so by the military helicopter that suddenly appeared out of a giant cloud of dust and hovered menacingly above my parked car. Spain, swords and sorcery: how Tudela enchanted the Game of Thrones producers 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Outside the Conservatory, all these ideas make for a startling sense of expansiveness. Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

The music is often exhilarating, seductive in its episodes of calm, and buzzes with startling structural inventions. Basquiat Strings: Part Two – review 2013-05-09T21:00:01Z

Sid Caesar’s death, at the ripe age of 91, is the latest illustration of a startling phenomenon: comedians just seem to go on forever. Why Do Comedians Live So Long? 2014-02-13T00:44:10Z

Barely catching his otherworldly breath, Trifonov then made a startling transition into a downright feral player for the flashy first book of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov creates a sensation in his L.A. recital debut at Disney Hall 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s startling to read Cooper describe taking on extra shifts at CNN to help pay for his mother’s nurses when she recuperated from a fall. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Lorraine Hansberry, who had earlier worked with Brown on the show “Kicks and Co.,” called him “a startling genius.” Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

In 1961, when she was Ms. Grimes’s standby in “Molly Brown,” she received a startling phone call at her West 55th Street apartment in Manhattan: Ms. Grimes had fainted during the first act. Iva Withers, a Standby to the Rescue on Broadway, Dies at 97 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Fried chicken sandwiches are usually made with pallid cutlets, so the intensity is startling. Restaurant Review: Meat Hook Sandwich in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

But there was a startling exception—one source of audio smut didn’t make us recoil, and a great deal of money and strategy had been invested in insuring that we didn’t. The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

What she shows on Mothers’ debut album, “When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired,” is startling. Review: On the Debut Album by Mothers, Austere Honesty 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

This lends a precise and sometimes startling individuality to what are usually collective observations. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The scenes between, merging slapstick mishaps with sneaky sensitivity, exemplify the show’s sweetly startling tone and original rhythms. The Startling Sweetness of “The Other Two” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Later, I spotted seven bighorn sheep, as still as statues as they balanced effortlessly on a precipitous mesa face, a startling image. In the Badlands, Where Hope for the Nation’s First Tribal Park Has Faded 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

I thought about going downstairs, which would have involved unlocking Sara’s door and startling her awake. Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex) 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

That Kyra has chosen to live like this comes as a shock to Tom, who shows up at her flat one night with the startling and disruptive energy of an unforeseen tornado. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In a quietly startling way, Harry looks like a lot of other men in the Western world who work office jobs and goof around with their kids in the backyard on the weekends. Analysis | Prince Harry’s rejection of fashion is a fashion statement of its own 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

And then there’s the final, startling trope: To demonstrate the seriousness of the enterprise, he is giving away his 2,000-volume library, one book at a time. Playwright Clears His Stage and Bookcases 2010-12-09T23:25:00Z

Brian Mizer, emerge as compelling figures, arguing with startling force against the legitimacy of the Bush administration’s military commissions and questioning the possibility of their client’s receiving a fair trial. | 'The Oath': Laura Poitras?s Documentary on Two Al Qaeda Cases 2010-05-07T00:09:00Z

And the dance style, featuring extraordinary juxtapositions and oppositions, is compelling and startling. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

It's been a great year for back catalogue titles, with startling digital dust-offs being given to Lawrence Of Arabia, Jaws and even the slightly less classic Zombie Flesh-Eaters. The best DVD and Blu-ray of 2012 2012-12-29T00:06:07Z

Like death, the essays end with startling abruptness. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Arthur Fleck is one of startling, nihilistic majesty – a jewel found shining among dead things. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Joker must be kept isolated from the rest of the Batman films 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The mere fact they happened at all was startling. Will McAvoy Nostalgia Proves How Awful 2016's Political Comedy Has Become 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

These movies entertain a startling array of subjects — Neapolitan music; ancient art; cloned dogs; trained apes — and they entertain audiences with thoughtful and thought-provoking excursions into reality. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

The beauty of Independence Day is that the success of any follow-up is surely predicated on spectacular special effects, rather than a startling new story arc. Is the world ready for an Independence Day sequel? | Ben Child 2010-03-31T11:17:00Z

In the context of his usual offhanded compositions and wayward framing, the formal self-consciousness of these circular shots is startling — as if Jean-Luc Godard had suddenly taken over an episode of the “Real Housewives” franchise. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z

Something startling and powerful happens, though, midway through the book. The Unknown Hostess of 1930s Hollywood 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

There was his unfortunate description of Barack Obama as “Your President,” a startling enough remark to be called out by “Good Morning America,” not exactly a bastion of political cynicism. The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Quoting Scripture, he pushes back against this startling assertion, which contradicts what these good Christians, under Paul’s ministry, have long been taught. Review: In ‘The Christians,’ a Schism Over Fire and Brimstone 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the main key to the food’s ascendence may be the startling difference between fresh and pasteurized tempeh. Tempeh, the "OG of fermented foods," is having a moment 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

I’d like to invent or order up new adjectives to describe the startling originality and ambition of Smith’s work. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

His 1972 play “Jumpers,” she argues persuasively, is both “showbiz incarnate: tricksy, hilarious, flamboyant, startling,” and a grieving depiction of a doomed marriage that opened two days after Stoppard’s first divorce. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

Films can reveal startling erotic truths about their characters, about us, without exposing so much as a breast or a butt. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Sure enough, the results were startling: The yogurt was rich and firm when I removed the jars from the Euro Cuisine unit, the texture like that of silken tofu. DIY yogurt beats the store-bought stuff

“What we saw was startling,” says Clagett, now the director of college counseling at St. Stephens Episcopal, a college preparatory school in Austin, Texas. Why Your High School Senior Should Take a Gap Year 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Khristenko’s gentle, loving approach to the keyboard — and his palette of touches — yielded a startling array of emotions. Pianist Khristenko helps Fairfax Symphony finish season joyously 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

An aerial shot brings leaping strings, startling anecdotes from the past get banging brass. TV matters: Orchestral overkill 2011-08-03T19:30:02Z

The photos and videos, some of them taken inside by the rioters themselves, were startling. Curators Scour Capitol for Damage to the Building or Its Art 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a remnant of the vast private library of the 19th-century British bibliomaniac Thomas Phillipps — and, for the unprepared, a startling reveal akin to the first sight of Norman Bates’s mother in “Psycho.” A Book Lover’s Haven Turns 100 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And yet no matter where you travel in the world, you run into a startling number of people for whom Orlando is America. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z

Hitting a startling, prolific high point nearly 30 years into their career, Cowboy Junkies are doing anything but resting on their laurels. Cowboy Junkies’ globe-hopping ‘Nomad Series’ 2013-04-25T20:49:28Z

Over coffee after rehearsal, Sutherland made some startling disclosures. Bottoms up for martini trapezes in always surprising Moisture Festival 2012-03-08T22:04:06Z

Tilson Thomas brought sometimes startling life to small points of Beethovenian expression, by letting an oboe line provide better narrative content than any stage dialogue might. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The composer Meredith Monk is known for her uncanny ability to coax the human voice into sonorities both ethereal and startling. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The other startling development in the episode, of course, was the revelation that Jane is indeed the playmate who disappeared when Kurt Weller was a child. 'Blindspot' Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Daylight 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

There’s a cultured butter from Vermont Creamery that’s a startling 86 percent butterfat, rather than the 80 percent of most of the others — it’s at once milky and tangy. Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

He has a lot of definite ideas on a variety of topics, including morality in art, and his statements are sometimes startling. ‘Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod’ Review: Into the Spotlight 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The view is startling: Tower Bridge is slapped across the window like it's perched on your hooter as a pair of novelty specs. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z

Their overhead shots of irrigated landscapes, printed on crumpled paper, evoke the land’s topography in a startling tactile way. Review: Landscapes that escape boundaries are at 2 Seattle galleries 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Not that the White Label boys have gone for the startling juxtapositions of 2ManyDJs. New band of the day ? No 1,093: White Label 2011-08-26T15:44:34Z

Tacked on to the poem’s original six books — out of the 12 Spenser planned — it’s a conclusion of startling ambiguity. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

In some ways the most startling pages of Markel's book are the early passages, where he shows us how Western science took those unremarkable pale green leaves and turned them into a catastrophe. An Anatomy of Addiction: When Two Brilliant Minds Met a "Miracle Drug" 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z

“Black Ops” presents some startling examples of stealth advertising. Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Their mutual respect for each other was genuinely startling. Donald Trump, the ultimate “Survivor”: How watching Richard Hatch win laid the groundwork for Trump the GOP nominee 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

But this book is best remembered for flashes of startling beauty, despite a racetrack milieu of “la crème da la crud.” Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z

One startling change: The Visiting Orchestra series has been discontinued in an effort to "streamline" Symphony offerings. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-25T21:49:03Z

In the introduction to his new book, “The Road to Character,” David Brooks breaks the columnist’s fourth wall with a startling confession: “I was born with a natural disposition towards shallowness.” David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

And 26 years after they formed, the Bad Seeds are in the midst of a startling artistic purple patch: their last two albums, the double Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus and 2008's astonishing Dig!!! 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z

The numbers are startling: On Tuesday, March 8, the head of the United Nation's refugee agency said the number of people fleeing Ukraine has now reached 2 million or more. Ukraine's refugees flood across western border, fleeing for their lives: Photos show the reality 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Here we are asked again and again to confront the bodies themselves, and the quantity and variety are startling. Exhibition Review: Long Dead, Yet Somehow Vaguely Alive 2011-06-16T23:27:50Z

But Beaton’s portraits also evince a startling purity—a sensual directness and a spareness of composition that seem to free his subjects from their respective eras rather than pin them down. Cecil Beaton Through the Decades 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

A startling package addressed to Nev one day appears to have inspired Ariel and Henry to pick up their digital cameras and start filming. Catfish 2010-12-16T15:00:01Z

To be clear, we’re still talking about the works of a capable amateur, of note — and of occasionally startling financial value — chiefly because they were made by the wartime prime minister of Britain. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

She witnessed a startling transformation, though, anytime the band struck the opening notes of another song and Bennett began to sing. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn. 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

I mean, this movie is startling, shocking, completely unpredictable. The Return of the Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Even so, just enough detail came through to encourage a look beneath the hypnotic breaking of waves and into the startling musical biosphere underneath. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A gambit of daringly bleak nihilism that managed to be simultaneously hilarious and genuinely startling. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

For Gleason, holding nothing back means inviting the camera into his bedroom and bathroom — where his frank, occasionally funny and sometimes heartbreaking perspective on the indignities of his illness can be startling. In ‘Gleason,’ filmmaker Clay Tweel follows an unintentional hero’s journey 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Still, when Barry meets Charlotte’s parents, a startling encounter in the Yale Club men’s room reminds him of his persistent sense of not belonging. ‘Barry,’ on Netflix, explores a pivotal year in the life of a young Barack Obama. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The personal variety of these six fairies is a bit startling: As soon as each starts to dance, you feel you know her. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The startling changes to the way the size of the economy is calculated brings the UK in line with European Union rules. Drugs and prostitution to be included in UK national accounts 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Jean is soon having cozy coffee chats with Zip, who asks some startling questions about her attraction to her husband. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z

In a startling second, at the change of a beat, she's become someone else. Rinko Kikuchi: the interview 2011-02-27T00:05:20Z

The composer and keyboardist Missy Mazzoli has a thing for unlikely connections and startling gestures, and one of her gifts is the ability to tease out the hidden logic behind her choices. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

It takes us to task for the startling amount of food we throw away. On TV, Ecological Themes for a Small Planet 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

In general, the energy was genial but listless — which made the occasional edgy joke startling. The Golden Globes Sets the Thermometer to Warm 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The startling thing about the encounter with Hoffman was that, from Oliver’s point of view, there was nothing funny about it. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

In his 70s, at any rate, the author was a startling combination of ribald and dour, adorable in proportion to his dogged efforts not to be. Review: Reviving a ‘Really Rosie’ That’s Hard-Candy Cute 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

But then, for all the experimentalism, not one of these productions is truly startling. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Maybe the Dia Foundation could take it over; it has just as much startling displacement as Walter De Maria’s famed “New York Earth Room,” yet it is also profoundly at home. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

Viewers imagining further scenes of depravity have been happily wrong-footed in subsequent episodes that – in shifting between different periods – have yielded startling changes in tone and pace. Patrick Melrose - Cumberbatch finds privilege corrupts 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Bell's comments are all the more startling in that they were written by an English painter rather than by, say, an Italian Futurist or a forward-looking French critic in the thick of things. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z

"Catfish," which follows a young, media-savvy New Yorker's Internet romance with a far-away girl through a series of increasingly startling revelations, has been playing around the country for several weeks now. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z

One film includes this startling exchange between a teenage boy and his instructor: Sex ed films through history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

That’s the Eno touch: the startling, often hilarious eruption of blunt honesty or, just as often, offhand profundity, into the meandering byways of everyday chitchat. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z

It is, for example, startling to see evidence that France on the eve of World War I was, if anything, more unequal than it was before the French Revolution. Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

This alone provides a startling theatrical and musical vibrancy. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a movie “that is by turns startling and generic, subtle and blunt, and consistently keeps you in its grip if not its heart,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in April. New on DVD: ?X-Men: First Class,? ?Scarface,? ?Hanna? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z

I only heard the cackle of the grouse that came flying from under a shade tree, startling my husband, walking in front of me. In Idaho, Tracing What Remains After the Flames 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The word "rifle", rather than "musket", denotes a more recent war, and produces a startling para-rhyme with "bible". Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z

“The pictures in some cases displayed their physical attractions with startling frankness, but they were in general highly artistic,” the article noted. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

In terms of art, this moment has been distinguished by startling fluidity, rapid change and thrilling expansion both in terms of what constitutes art and who makes it. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was a very bloody time, and you suggest our presence didn’t help, which in some ways is a startling admission from a Marine. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

While stillness and silent transmission of thought are the most important parts of small-screen acting, a performer also needs to be able to shatter the mask for startling contrast. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z

Young Gerhard Trimpin was playing with friends in his native Black Forest village of Efringen-Kirchen, Germany, when he made a startling discovery: a graveyard on the edge of town, with tombstones inscribed in Hebrew. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z

Then, in a startling example of the financial damage caused by the pandemic shutdown, McCollum decided to close his production for several months, saying he saw no other way to save it. ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ to Close on Broadway, After Reopening 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Back when my wife Caron and I were engaged, she volunteered some startling information about herself: She makes her seafood salad with fake crab. Real crab — not imitation krab — is an ingredient I'm willing to fight for 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's startling to be reminded via an original broadcast that in those days "aliens" weren't permitted to "control" so much as a bicycle. Radio preview: from FIP to Love, War And Trains 2013-04-27T05:00:14Z

That level of success must be pretty startling for you, especially for a series you conceived as a “vanity project.” ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Steven Moffat, a ‘Sherlock’ Co-Creator 2014-01-17T18:12:54Z

This show was Barnum’s final stop in New York after nearly 150 years of performing, part of the startling end for a storied showbiz institution, for decades a symbol of American ambition. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Episode 3 has some of your most startling scenes, particularly because they are our first departures from Offred’s point of view. Reed Morano on Directing the First Three Episodes of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The new reality is startling for locals who recall a time, not long ago, when the valley was a smoke-free Eden. The Rogue Valley Was Set to Become a Food Paradise. Then It Burned. 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Sackville's prose style has been widely remarked on by critics, who have identified a "startling originality" and "beautiful" restraint. Amy Sackville wins John Llewellyn Rhys prize for The Still Point 2010-11-23T19:30:00Z

It’s a startling, magnificent performance, full of belting bravado and softer shadings of nuance and pathos. Renée Zellweger is just fine, thanks: The actress reflects on her long journey to ‘Judy.’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

These startling images ramp up to the relative tumult of Mr. Winter’s found photographs at ZieherSmith. Art Review: ‘Snap Noir’ and ‘Photo Brut’ Display Found Photographs 2013-08-08T21:53:25Z

“And I find that very startling from a group of people that claim to be the champions of women empowerment.” Perspective | How Lisa Bloom, feminist attorney, became just another complicit Aunt Lydia 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Woodham’s book contains startling information about the number of people in the market for the world’s most expensive art. ‘What Next?’ an Uncertain Art World Asks, Sticking to Proven Brands 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

"All offspring are startling to their parents," Solomon writes. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z

His eyes, absent a hailstorm of glitter, are a startling azure. Taylor Mac defies all comparisons and adjectives, and he wants you to leave his shows exhausted 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

While it contains some startling personal revelations, equally affecting is Stone’s warmth and grace, qualities that, by the end, feel quite miraculous. Review | Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

The lip-synched performances, necessary and expedient for shooting a show of this nature, are also an incursion of startling insincerity into an environment that privileges earnestness over all. Television: ?Glee?: Attitude, Yes, but Without a Song in Its Heart 2010-04-10T04:10:00Z

Moreover, it might seem as if a startling increase in the number of anxiety disorders has occurred in recent years. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z

This is a play about the daily process of politics rather than big ideas, but it recreates, with startling vividness, the madness of life in the Westminster village during five action-filled years. This House – review 2012-10-09T22:01:01Z

The Unthanks Last Rabble Rouser The Unthanks experiment continues, with an album of gentle melancholia that matches their most elaborate instrumental arrangements to date with a reworking of a startling variety of songs. The Unthanks: Last - review 2011-03-10T23:07:00Z

It’s here where Paltrow makes a startling revelation: She had no idea she made an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Gwyneth Paltrow shocked to discover she starred in "Spider-Man" is the week’s best viral video 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Well, the absolute indifference shown by Grace to her kids here is startling. Grace of Monaco review: Cannes opens with a royal biopic worse than Diana 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

And the 10 dancers of BalletX perform these with startling spontaneity and urgency. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z

“It was startling and powerful. I think that was a very personal moment in the movie. I think that was him.” Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

And then there is the most startling symbol of this influx: pork. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z

Filmmaker Adam Pesce caught that moment in his sometimes startling documentary "Splinters," a hybrid work that will appeal to both surf-movie fanatics and armchair sociologists. 'Splinters': Surfers ride waves of change in Papua New Guinea 2012-08-16T20:57:03Z

Here he shares a startling realization: “We’re living through a time when we are all learning about the presidency at the same time as the president. That’s never happened.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia’ and ‘Little Women’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

When something startling happens, like a fleeting mezzo-forte burst of chords, it sounds almost momentous. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

That gesture, tender and a bit awkward, is the most startling of the night. Dance Review: Patricia Noworol Teams Up With Renegade for a Dance Theater Piece 2013-06-14T22:09:22Z

More startling, the cash price for a CT scan at a nearby medical center was only $250. These Start-Ups Can Help You Reduce Health Care Costs 2012-06-01T13:30:04Z

"The ferocity with which they pilloried the royals and their cruel depiction of the poor princesses is still startling," said Suzanne Groom, the curator of a new exhibition at Kew Palace. Royal wedding cartoons show William and Kate are lucky it's 2011 2011-04-02T06:00:01Z

These works are grouped in the second and most startling of the three galleries into which Ms. Allen has divided the installation. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z

Even more startling, 12 percent reported purposely posting “controversial statements.” Over one-quarter of of Americans own up to Internet troll behavior 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

This startling revelation led a group of VA psychologists to argue that many were not traumatized; they were morally injured. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Now that I'm free from full-time work, my once-murky canvas reveals a startling image. The sobering truth about quitting my job: I was addicted to high-stress, nonprofit work 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

It employs the cross-cutting techniques of movies and TV with startling aplomb, and plays on the drama's presentiments of disaster through dreams and hallucinations. Romeo and Juliet ? review 2012-02-08T19:16:29Z

The current proposal “threatens the integrity of the scene in a startling and major way,” the letter added. New Forces Join Lawsuit Fighting Palisades Tower 2014-01-22T20:53:00Z

The reversals the characters suffer across the movie’s running time are epic, and the movie’s finale unfolds to genuinely startling effect. ‘Cut Throat City’ Review: Desperate Straits in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

The grown-ups get “Legends,” a retrospective of Antony Tudor, the British master choreographer celebrated for merging psychological tension with startling elegance. Dance Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:46:10Z

So does the fact that, to a startling degree, and despite being a state-sponsored institution, the museum refuses to sugarcoat history. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Varda is a director of a startling originality, for whom the New Wave was already a modern myth to confront. The Photographs That Helped “Breathless” Start a Revolution 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

My mother, who was to remain a startling beauty, met my father, a handsome soldier, in 1924. All about my mother 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z

Indhu Rubasingham staged a vivaciously physical version of The Ramayana, and Jonathan Church offered a startling reassessment of the David Hare trilogy of Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z

You’re bound to witness some startling moments if you let them put their own art onstage. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

That's a startling line, emphasizing Melville's suggestion that Queequeg, whom many characters dismiss as a "heathen," is actually the most ethical character in the book. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

What depressed but didn't surprise me was the startling regional variations. Some good cuts news? Plus Philip Pullman, philanthropy and Joan Bakewell 2011-02-02T17:44:00Z

Natalie Merchant sings on her self-titled new album, a set of dark, brave, thoughtful and serenely startling songs that is her first album in 13 years with her own lyrics. Critic’s Notebook: Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan 2014-05-07T21:46:14Z

There will be blood in Gone Girl, but some of the most startling moments are glancing — Amy’s quick kiss that includes a lip bite — and claustrophobic. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Rather than accept blame for mismanaging the Cuban economy and for the startling decay of the nation’s infrastructure, the Castros were forever pointing at the U.S. trade embargo. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Whilst he has some reservations both about the villagers' extraordinary phlegm and the flatness of the characterisation, Savage is still convinced by the "insidious nature of the alien invasion" which remains "startling and strange". Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-29T14:44:12Z

Some of the items later appeared in scholarly books co-authored by Latchford, startling Cambodian archaeologists who said they had no idea they existed. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

This book contains many startling confidences on the order of “Jean-Paul Sartre told me in 1953,” or “Groucho Marx said to me,” or, about Mitford, “I met her in Paris in the early ’50s.” Books of The Times: Laughing Matters: Discuss 2010-12-07T23:00:00Z

This was probably a mistake, because soon they were startling onlookers by drawing on their eyes. Perspective | Miss Manners: Can I apply lipstick after taking my mask off in public? 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

Still, there was something startling about the coldness on Thursday. Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

On several levels, it’s startling to hear Mr. Olson, a onetime Reaganite stalwart, call this probably the most important case of his life. ‘The Case Against 8,’ on Fighting a Same-Sex Marriage Ban 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ellman, who dabbles in distortion and pedal effects elsewhere on the album, pushes himself further here, producing a track that’s startling in its surface disruptions. Review: Liberty Ellman Releases ‘Radiate’ 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Even more startling was the sight of mini icebergs and chunks bobbing in the glacial waters the next morning. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It yields some startling moments, as when Lear and his retinue announce their arrival at Goneril's house by simply bursting through the wall. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z

It’s a trove of untamed three-minute dispatches from distant places and eras, full of raw voices, rough-hewed virtuosity and startling structures. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

"For me as an artist, the idea that music and art can be so powerful that a regime goes after you is a really startling idea," Yee tells Times contributor Steve Appleford. Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

He brings a startling humanity to the role, adding real pathos. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z

Most startling, though, was how it no longer mattered — to either of us. When Your Uber Driver Brings a Time Machine 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Still, his band sound spectacular – there's a relentless, crushing power to their playing on Senselessly Cruel, a startling series of surges from delicacy to violence in their version of Ecstasy. Lou Reed ? review 2011-07-06T17:30:02Z

This is a startling, affecting first book by an author who is confident in her craft, who knows that a loving portrait includes flaws. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Which is also what makes her end so startling. What Kate Spade Stood For 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

What happens shortly after those legs come to a halt is startling, even though it isn’t actually in the original book by Elizabeth Strout. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Vanessa Hua made her startling and impressive debut in 2016 with her collection of short stories about the immigrant experience in America. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

He achieves a number of other startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant. ‘Ham on Rye’ Review: Coming of Age, With Existential Unease 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet there is something undeniably startling about the photo that Andrews took. The Startling Image of the Blood-Spattered Victim of the Virginia Beach Shooting 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

The professor's doubts about the authenticity of her diagnosis begin to waver when he sees Tara's startling alter egos emerge. Izzard finds his kind of role in Showtime's 'Tara' 2011-04-20T21:48:13Z

What originally made this work startling, though, was, again, how it revolutionized sculpture as we knew it. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

What’s impressive about this first novel — apart from the startling music of its language — is Ms. Townsend’s willingness to steep her characters in heartache without relief. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z

But the timing is so exquisite and the presentation so startling that the oldest joke in the world, involving a Hustler magazine, is a comic high point. | '666': The Spanish Trouple Yllana at the Minetta Lane Theater 2010-04-22T23:13:00Z

Both of them are just trying to get closer to ghosts through objects, even if some of those objects are a little startling. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Working with what looks like a straight-to-video budget — in startling contrast to the other, more lavish "Narnia" releases — the director hopes the less-impressive production will succeed on ideas and character development. 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader': Series hits rough waters 2010-12-09T16:43:00Z

The juxtaposition of early radio and contemporary Twitter provided a startling symbolic demonstration of what the Science Museum’s new permanent gallery — “Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World” — is all about. London calling: New Science Museum gallery celebrates ‘Information Age’

Near the end, there’s a startling moment where we hear the taped voices of the actual residents in their natural, unmediated cacophony. Theater Review: At the National Theatre in London, Other People's Pain 2011-05-03T13:00:07Z

From the outside — and even for some inside Spears's world — the restrictions surrounding the pop star are startling. The battle of Britney Spears 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

You just got startling news that you aren’t as assertive as you want to be. Carolyn Hax: Wife wants to erase line husband has drawn with his family 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Much has been made of the startling physical transformation he made for the role, and the Oscars are known for rewarding actors who go the distance for a project. And the Oscar may go to: 30 key movies that could win big next award season 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Whelan’s Sleepwalker was, once more, a startling apparition: driven, urgent, darkly ambiguous. Wendy Whelan Leaves City Ballet After 30 Years 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

And it was macho, in a manner that felt startling and bold. Music Review: The R&B Star Miguel at Bowery Ballroom 2012-10-03T22:19:09Z

Still, what’s most startling about the show isn’t its interest in science; it’s its interest in women. The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

In between its shocker start and equally startling windup, this Argentine anthology offers up a scabrous, often unsettlingly funny look at human behavior in extremis. Review: ‘Wild Tales’ Explores the Blurred Limits of Morality 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s a startling thing to see because the contrast with her regular expression is so stark. ‘Barbara’: a doctor’s quiet, fascinating battle of wills in Germany 2012-12-20T21:54:47Z

Here, he turns his outsider's eye on contemporary Blackpool in a single startling image entitled simply A Saturday Night Out in Blackpool, 2010. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:47Z

“Mr. Kaufman’s gift for quotidian horror remains startling; he’s a whiz at minor miseries,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mountain Lion and Me’ and ‘Speechless’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Many died young, a startling number by drowning. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

At times, the humor is more corny than funny, but even after “Dust” settles into its rhythm, a problem remains: Nothing can rival Ms. Rainer’s startling and dazzling beginning. Review: Yvonne Rainer’s ‘The Concept of Dust’ Keeps Viewers on Their Toes 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Past mysteries haunt the present in ways that are both startling and claustrophobic. Four High-Octane New Thrillers 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

It remains startling how unambitious New York’s men’s wear retail is. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

This gorgeously sad and atmospheric book about family, lust, friendship and '50s-style repression also considers, sometimes to comic effect, the social effects of bad driving and really startling amounts of cigarettes and alcohol. New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z

They currently operate 777 bookstores by his count, a number he whips out with startling specificity. Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The exception is a startling picture of intersecting gravel roads that looks like a body being flung. Capturing Human Moments Amid Chaos in Israel and the West Bank 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

That a couple of the magicians actually managed to fool two men who I thought knew every trick in the book and have made it their business to expose charlatans was genuinely startling. Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z

In a manner that now reads as quite startling in a children’s book, the focus sometimes shifts from the child to the parents. “My Friend Flicka”: A Book About Horses That Is a Book About First Love 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the second season, the series has doubled down on its vision of a startling fascist normalcy, shifting its focus to the home lives of Nazis and the bureaucratic politics of fascism. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

It was a startling reminder of the pain and blisters behind the beauty. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Burgeoning buds, a drooping petal or a yellowing leaf, as well as the startling beauty of full-fledged flowers, tell the story of each plant’s past, present and future. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z

At first, this neighborhood will confuse you with its pleasantly startling mix of cuisines, ethnicities and income brackets — that’s a good thing. 7 travel and sightseeing tips for your next trip to Vancouver 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Still, the variety of the masks is startling. The Masks in Venezuela and the Pathos of Protest Art 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Each inmate briefly introduces himself and his life and then acts, either with comic overstatement or startling intensity, the same nondescript scene. Movie Review: ‘Caesar Must Die,’ by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 2013-02-05T22:49:07Z

Because, ultimately, life is like that: rife with indelible metaphor, and more startling in its poignancy than any fiction. Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The stupefying heat at times meant the works for toy piano took on a particularly surreal quality, with the whistles of Jorge Torres Sáenz’s “Toy Symphony” piercing the heavy air with startling force. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z

Stories We Tell is a challengingwork, with that startling use of reconstructions, which are arguably self-conscious and in questionable taste. Stories We Tell – review 2013-06-27T14:29:01Z

Not every program can offer the startling views of the studios provided by Silver Art, which was co-founded by Cory Silverstein, the grandson of the owner of 4 World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein. These Artists’ Hunt for Studio Space Ended at the World Trade Center 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

The show holds no startling revelations — the notebooks are “unknown” only in the most literal sense that they have never been exhibited before. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

A startling burst of blinding light, like an explosion, was the wake-up call announcing the opening Kyrie. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Anyone seeking to rock the Passover Seder with political debate will find the perfect conversation piece in Mr. Sarna’s account of this startling American story. Books of The Times: ?When General Grant Expelled the Jews,? by Jonathan D. Sarna 2012-04-04T22:37:42Z

But the play contains moments of startling poetry. ‘Nasty Women Rep’ grapples with sexuality, society 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

But because the world is, and Rogers’s hopefulness, patience and kindness were so pure they’re almost startling. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Seemingly banal in its conceit, wildly startling in its execution, it tracks a film crew that, like a detective squad, investigates what became of an ordinary man. Movie Review: ‘A Man Vanishes,’ Directed by Shohei Imamura 2012-11-14T22:56:23Z

Showbiz is not for the weak of heart, and the ability of these gals to cut one another dead with their eyes is as startling as it is giggle-inducing. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at the Joyce 2012-12-21T22:29:13Z

And they are all men in this collection, except for one startling image of a baby cushioned by a dark garment on barren ground. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

In any other public context, that might have been startling. Review: ‘69 positions’ Explores the Sexual Politics in Performance 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

While playing with plenty of virtuosic flair, he brings out inner voices and harmonic subtleties that seem fresh, even startling. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

But the cyclic form, the startling use of piano resonances and rhythmic flexibility mark a huge step forward. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

But what was truly startling was the idea that the main line was being “suspended,” and that there were no immediate plans to replace her. Reimagining Donna Karan 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Despite what Canellos describes as Harlan’s startling “prescience” — crafting dissents that refuted the widespread prejudices of his own time and resonated with later generations — Harlan doesn’t occupy much of a place in the public imagination. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Then he recalls the murder that has haunted him for decades: shots of the beautiful, battered Liliana, splayed naked on the floor like the startling nude in Marcel Duchamp's final work, Étant donnés. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z

Much of the stage business here has precedent, including the startling amplification of the slamming of doors, an activity with which “Fool” is filled. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

The sense of dread hanging over the film builds to a startling discovery when Sergeant Howie realizes he has been lured to his doom. Robin Hardy, Who Set ‘The Wicker Man’ Cult Alight, Dies at 86 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Helene Binet A startling red box has landed on the South Bank, nestled near the National Theatre right by Waterloo bridge. Is this the future of the South Bank? 2013-04-16T09:31:45Z

When Chloe suspects something is not right with the medication she is being given, she investigates and makes a startling discovery. From "Only Murders" to "Sex Lives," disability onscreen is improving but "still not enough" 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Penderecki eventually abandoned the startling tone clusters and imaginative timbres of his early works and adopted a more conservative idiom, sometimes combining experimental and traditional forms. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z

Yet one startling 10-minute sequence, in which Disney debates an animatronic Abraham Lincoln about the civil rights movement, is among the highlights of Mr. Glass’s output. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the most startling thing about Write About Love is its guest performances. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

But in the 1954 version, where Maine was played by James Mason, the heart of Judy Garland’s startling performance was song. ‘A Star Is Born’ Review: A Brilliant Reincarnation 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It was a startling touch, but it pulled you in. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z

“Buika has really developed as a singer in a truly startling way,” Ms. Vargas said in a telephone interview from her home outside Mexico City. A Singer From Everywhere Arrives Here 2010-10-21T21:15:00Z

Harrison’s masterful diction could bring you completely into the moment as he brought to life the jarring physicality of a bitter cold river startling the skin and piquing a sense of the divine. Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Harrison and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

But aside from the startling flashes of vulnerability that tear the carapace of Ms. Johansson’s Maggie, there’s scant evidence of subtext, of the thoughts behind the blustery facades. Theater Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2013-01-18T03:00:00Z

But as her studies broadened beyond the purely technical bounds of the conservatory and into philosophy and theory, she made a startling realization: In many ways, music was keeping her from embracing disability. For composer Molly Joyce, disability is no barrier to virtuosity 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Then one day she witnesses a startling act of creation. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Most of us who saw Ross's surprise critical smash, with its startling central performance from Jennifer Lawrence, were left hungry for more earlier this year as the credits rolled. Why Hunger Games 3 will kill one Mockingjay with two stones 2012-07-12T14:54:53Z

His exhibition of photographic works from the 1970s at Michael Benevento takes us back to a moment when the documentary impulse in art was still a startling thing. '70s social commentary still resonates in Fred Lonidier artworks 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Few chapters offer startling new arguments, though Mr. Wu is well attuned to paradoxes and ironies. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Even well into the movie, it’s a startling image, showing just how alone Robinson was on that field even among so many men in the same uniform. 42: The Jackie Robinson Biopic Is a Solid Hit 2013-04-12T09:45:25Z

Beyoncé won video of the year for her startling political statement, “Formation,” but kept her speech to formalities. MTV Video Music Awards, a Playground for the Next Generation 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

That immortal figure rises up at the center of Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise,” the latest of her startling novels about academic life. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Her woven paintings, on the other hand, are a startling delight. It's not what it seems: Unraveling the secrets of Analia Saban's 'Threadbare' 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

It's a startling reminder of the size of the stage where the ballet was premiered. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

At Otramanera, servers are educated about the menu, wines and the startling fact that some foreigners abstain from meat. What, Reserve a Table? Cubans Confront a New Dining Culture 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The first 13 episodes generated musical/psychological moments of startling power. Why "Glee" is this century's "Twin Peaks" 2010-06-08T17:10:00Z

It’s a startling, creepy and comical head-scratcher of an image that suggests more questions about Mr. Goulet’s dark comedy than it answers. Behind the Poster: 'Filler' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Chopin advanced the technique of piano playing, often horrifying conservative pedagogues in the process, and created startling new sonorities. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z

In his thoroughgoing new biography, “David Bowie: Starman,” the British rock journalist Paul Trynka considers at length the startling androgyny that made Mr. Bowie a defining human being of the 1970s. Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z

Yet von Trier, a serious man when he isn't being the most ill-advised ironic wiseacre this side of a visiting planet, creates startling moments of beauty. Cannes, Day 8: That's Lars! 2011-05-18T14:28:01Z

Ms. Hogue’s line of questioning jeopardizes his public reputation and his reaction proves quite startling, in the way he uses stereotypes of race and sex to try to kill the story. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

What's happening in Arcadia is less about big new houses and startling sales figures than how new patterns of immigration are transforming the architecture of Southern California. How Arcadia is remaking itself as a magnet for Chinese money 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Griffiths's language is lyrical, brutal and startling; it requires and deserves a robust reader. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z

After their extremely long period of immobility, the two dancers began to do isolated staccato moves that were amusing and startling; and the patches of silence in the peculiar music were funny too. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z

And then there is a crazy encounter at a hotel pool between Bryon and Desiree that escalates in to some startling physical violence. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

It's a startling admission from one of modern American literature's unquestioned giants. Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue' 2012-12-13T17:42:53Z

In The Odyssey, there's another startling moment – a moment of inventive splendour – when Achilles's horse turns and speaks to him. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

At times these entries convey a startling tenderness and intimacy, as they do in “Mask / Conceal / Carry,” her current exhibition at 52 Walker — a multidimensional meditation on guns. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ellison’s photographs are eloquent, and in a few instances startling. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

The quarrel between the men dates back several years to when Mr. Bouvier helped Mr. Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire mining magnate, buy 38 pieces of world-class art for a startling $2 billion. Charges Against Dealer Dropped in Art Dispute With Russian Oligarch 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Bridge gave him an impregnable technical command, and remaining in Britain introduced him to a startling band of homosexual men, led by WH Auden. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z

I started noticing the trend in my own home, where my husband, furloughed federal employee Adam Wendell, has been burning through books at a startling pace. Furloughed employees are filling workless days with books — lots of them 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Responding to Sorokin, Edwin M. Schur commented in 1964 that many sociologists of the era believed “there really may not have been any startling change in sexual behavior in the very recent years.” Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z

The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Sacks calls it “a distressing book, one that delivers a startling rebuttal to the shining idealism of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ What the critics are saying about Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Where ordinary lagers are easy and pleasant, good pilsners are like a startling handclap, snapping your taste buds to attention. When a Summer Day Calls for a Beer 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

For an audience that saw her not quite a decade ago as the youthful Jenufa, the physical transformation is startling when Ms. Mattila enters as the Kostelnicka, her face lined with care, her movements heavy. Same Opera, Different Role: Karita Mattila Returns to the Met 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

In another startling series of images, slender corpses are strung from the branches of a tree like tendrils of a weeping willow. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The difference was startling — it glided through her coat and didn’t jam once, even when it was full of hair. You Missed a Spot: How Not to Groom Your Dog During Lockdown 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

But the real value of the program was its startling illumination of not just what Adams wrote but he has wrought. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

More often than not, though, Doyle plumbs the bleaker aspects of literary life with startling precision and candor. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

What’s startling now is to realize that we were all watching her die. Review: ‘Amy,’ an Intimate Diary of Amy Winehouse’s Rise and Destruction 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

It begins with a startling vitrine of 39 drawings, which are being exhibited for the first time: tiny scraps mounted on index cards made in 1951. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

There is at least one startling exception to the rule that real artists never retire: Shakespeare. Real artists never retire ? or do they? 2011-03-22T11:48:34Z

Duke gets a little jealous, though, so when I was crouching to take this photo of Poppy, chomping on plants, he came up behind my head and barked loudly, startling everybody. From Geoffrey Chadsey, a Visual Diary of the Last Days of Summer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

His latest film, “Hereafter,” is at once recognizably his — in tone and atmosphere — and a startling departure from his previous work. | 'Hereafter': The Dead Have Messages for the Land of the Living 2010-10-14T21:49:00Z

In an era when even many ordinary people strive for fame by whatever means necessary, Bernstein’s exit from the stage is refreshing but a little startling. In 'Seymour,' Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein as creative odd couple 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

His florid dark looks were striking, almost startling. Ivor Novello, master of the musical 2012-08-03T21:55:11Z

Tim Mitchell's dramatic lighting pulls off a couple of startling apparitions. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z

Musically this makes for ineffably compelling listening, startling and engaging at every turn. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

More surprisingly, Broken Bells' 2010 hit The High Road is given a startling, spirited remodel. Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions Vol 2 – review 2012-07-19T21:00:02Z

He can be a joy and a conundrum, startling and remarkable, but also fantastically, gloriously untethered. ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review: Being Nicolas Cage 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

"The decision is quite startling," Berry said in an email. Rap star Jay Z prevails in lawsuit over Roc-A-Fella logo 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a not so startling disclosure, considering the singer himself cut short a 1993 concert tour to check into rehab for a painkiller addiction. Expert Witness Says Michael Jackson Hid 15-Year-Long Addiction to Painkillers 2013-08-28T10:58:58Z

“The Gone Dead” is a startling work that will set your skin tingling and interrupt your sleep. Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

It's startling, then, to learn that the author, nearing the end of in 1962, was tempted to throw in the towel in disgust. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z

As each bubble hits the wires, it bursts into flames, an effect that is startling, dramatic and hilarious. The global economy, summed up in these two bubble machines 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

That hierarchy began to be challenged a century ago, yet a piece such as Jen Noone’s “Vacation” is still a bit startling. Review | In the galleries: Synthetic consumer products prove to be a natural medium 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Unthanks' startling folk has all the eerie power of their native Northumbria's coast. The Unthanks ? review 2011-03-29T16:58:14Z

To find such a combination of sweep and sweetness was startling. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z

There are no startling conclusions in this book. 'The Puzzle of Left-Handedness': A southpaw story 2011-12-22T00:53:04Z

This startling visual connection made me laugh out loud and kept me there until it looped around again, twice. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The movie's independence from studio fare no longer makes its style seem particularly unique or startling, but the rough edges hint at the young filmmaker's potential. May 22 at SIFF: John Jeffcoat's 'Amplified Seattle' rocks the Neptune 2010-05-21T19:15:00Z

They gaze out across the immensity of time with a common humanity that is utterly startling. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z

She rattled off business-oriented goals and added a personal one that was startling in its honesty. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z

Women with guitars were something alien and threatening to the male-oriented scene of the time, so everything they did was a fight – a fight they won by the power of their startling image. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-02-05T00:05:34Z

One startling moment in the film involves a shot of a prominently displayed Confederate flag, which then recurs several times in a short span of time. The Unintentional Politics of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

I try to think of a startling emotional thing that jogs my memory or something that’s frightening, or my grandmother’s name with 666 at the end. Cultural Studies: Computer Passwords Grow Ever More Complicated 2012-06-22T20:21:40Z

But the German references are startling, and hard to process. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

These assets are displayed in The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, even though this is one of their less startling creations. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; The Machine; The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-20T23:06:09Z

Although Bigelow’s recent films can be enjoyed as visceral mainstream entertainment, they’re also sophisticated, intellectually grounded works that manage to disassemble cinematic grammar and reconstitute it in startling, even revolutionary ways. Perspective | With ‘Detroit,’ Kathryn Bigelow refines an aesthetic grounded in equal parts theory and reality 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

She believed in herself, which was very, very cool, and yes, startling. Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy: Hilarious Performance, Not Oscar Worthy 2012-01-25T18:38:22Z

Tom McAllister’s How to Be Safe is as startling as the crack of a bullet. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: PA Last week the Guardian Northerner brought you news of the startling number of tents abandoned at last year's Leeds Festival – over 700 – and the imaginative community trading scheme which collects and resells them. Leeds Festival scavengers have 72 pairs of wellies for sale, and hundreds more tents 2012-08-28T10:00:00Z

But he puts it over with a startling sincerity and sense of innocent fun. Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

It is there in the music, of course, but also in a personal presentation only marginally less startling and radical today than it would have been in the repressive and homophobic America of the 1950s. No Prince Without the King 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

His startling, frustrated roar, toward the end, at 3:11, sounds real. Review: Royal Headache Releases Its Second Album 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

This shaggy, darkly comic and deeply eccentric tale begins as the suicidal Axler takes a startling swan dive off a Broadway stage during a production of "As You Like It." 'The Humbling' is Al Pacino's act all the way 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The intent seemed to be to channel not the startling public face of Nomi but the lonely, insecure man behind the image. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

But the race wasn’t that close: About two-thirds of the way through, Felix put on a startling burst of energy and left the entire talented field, including Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown, in her trail. Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh: America’s golden women 2012-08-09T11:35:00Z

Equal parts tragic and tense, the series finale for “The Americans” pulled off the nearly impossible: A conclusion that felt startling but appropriate. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z