And now, with a broadening idea of family and an emerging interest in genetics, it also permeates television, cropping up on weekly series and made-for-TV movies with startling frequency.
His right hand, one of the most famed weapons in Olympic boxing history, scores points - justly or not - with startling frequency.
Criticisms of Bush's staff occur with startling frequency.
In harsh denunciations and gleefully venomous jokes, one sentiment has surfaced with startling frequency in the wake of the stock market plunge: now the yuppies will get theirs.
By the time Piemur could slide from Brown's shoulder to the ground, he marveled that the dragons hadn't collided midair, appearing as they had with such startling frequency.
In the grand liberal tradition of manipulating the will of the people, just like the Ninth Jerkit Court of Appeals does with startling frequency, this teacher claimed a mistrial because I won.
Dietrich's one-woman show carried on until the late 1970s when accidents recurred with startling frequency.
Prostitutes die in the Middlesex boroughs with a rather startling frequency.
Magazines are being born with startling frequency - 477 appeared in 1987 and more than 500 last year, according to Samir A. Husni, a University of Mississippi journalism professor who publishes a guide to new magazines.