The academic scientists came up with a startling idea.

But it certainly does not lack for original and even startling ideas.

Rohder blinks as if this is a startling new idea.

Only now was his mind beginning to play with the startling idea that they had not come from the High Plateau.

The inventor considered the startling idea as he took more pictures.

She was going to have to put some thought into this startling idea Jondalar and the foreign woman had presented.

A sudden startling new idea had occurred to him.

It's kind of a startling idea, but it figures.

That is a startling idea, with all sorts of implications.

It was a startling idea, but it seemed like a good one.