Luisa has a startling vision in the night.

They were silent awhile, contemplating this startling vision.

(This would indeed be a startling vision.)

Here, in the most unexpected, purest way, we had a poet, someone of startling vision and muscular expression; some of his poems have never left me.

Yet Ms. Makhmalbaf's startling cinematic vision is also the product of a unique education and circumstances.

They were a startling vision in the city's most crowded borough.

Only when the startling vision of my severed hands came to me clearly did I open my eyes and sit up, rubbing one hand with the other.

Zaha Hadid's startling visions of tectonic thrust make one wonder how they could be built.

A visitor staying in an upstairs bedroom awoke to a startling vision of African slaves working in fields.