There are moments of absolute horror and of startling beauty and its imagery will surely haunt all those privileged to read it.

Yet these horrors are inter-weaved with poetic images of startling beauty and mystery.

The startling beauty of autumn camellias suddenly blooming just as all other plants seem to be disrobing stops my heart every year.

It was a straightforward production but made a startling effect on stage.

First-person evidence forces the past into the present, with sometimes startling effect.

It has a startling effect.

It was an auspicious encounter, their differences coming together to startling effect.

With the violins and violas stood upright, the cellos raised on a plinth, and the woodwind and brass raised yet higher, the orchestral textures were clarified to startling effect.

A startling figure that demonstrates the scale of the problem.

Buried in the report was a startling figure: mortgage rates can stay high for six to nine years after the onset of a banking crisis.

Sometimes we need the shouting, the large and startling figures.

An extensive three-month trawl through court records and local library newspaper archives eventually produced some startling figures.

It's unfortunate because this startling image makes everything that follows feel like a falling-off.

It was a startling image of the future that made news across the world.

But a friend, who posted the startling image online, revealed she'd wanted to keep it until the hospital said she couldn't.

This startling image of shrouded skeletons, far more vivid than many of his poetic personifications, evokes the buried poems rather than those new-minted, and suggests the direction of his thoughts.

It's just such a startling image.

But it succeeds in overturning few platitudes, offers no startling insights, and adds little to an understanding of history's worst conflict.

No startling insights, just solid reminders of the fundamentals.

It has led to some startling insights.

But they were all too often overshadowed by his failings: obstinacy, pettiness and a sometimes startling lack of perspective.

When the kit comes on the market, brisk sales are expected to reflect the public's startling lack of trust in what they eat.

Despite its startling lack of originality, or indeed ethnicity, it's hugely successful - the biggest-selling single in the country's history was a kwaito song.

Most have been met with a startling lack of success.

The startling number of deals or talks about them confirmed of late has brokers taking seriously rumours that they would normally dismiss.

A startling number of shops and commercial premises stand empty, with anxious landlords offering rent holidays to attract new tenants.

At the time of writing, a startling number of this year's competitors appear merely to be on bikes.

Now here's the startling number.

It also published startling numbers showing how branch transactions, including checking balances, have tumbled and are set to fall further.

Several other 'common ancestor' projects have arrived at some startling results.

The jabs trigger growth of nerve fibres which, coupled with exercise, gave startling results.

Such relatively simple though time-consuming tricks can have startling results.

A good eyebrow shape can have startling results, opening up the eye area and altering the focus of the face.

However, the night's even more startling results were as follows.

He started out as an author of pulp fiction, churning out words at startling speed.

In those conditions the growth aspect of the portfolio could recover at startling speed.

On a good day, my decade-old modem manages to connect at the startling speed of 28 kilobits per second, but on many days it's much less than that.

One startling statistic stands out.

In it he provided a startling statistic.

However, that thought has to be tempered by the startling statistic in the leading article that half a million security personnel were needed to supervise that election.