"Hester's lying to you," she said with sudden startling intensity.

The relief of it eddied through Adam with startling intensity.

She paused, then added with startling intensity, "We've got to get to the spook pusher!

He looked around at her with a startling intensity, going still in the faint morning light.

"Nothing is real," she sang in a husky contralto, giving the line a startling intensity.

Raederle was struggling against his mind-hold with a startling intensity.

The sudden shout caused a thousand echoes to boom and bounce off the walls with startling intensity.

David's eyes, which mere moments ago had been closed, now held her gaze with a startling intensity.

The answer came from three throats with startling intensity.

And beyond that, far beyond, was a speck of light, little bigger than a star but with a startling intensity.