It sits in a startlingly clear, azure sea, its bays so blue they hurt the eyes.

But now, and for as long as this crisis continued, she was utterly calm, her thinking startlingly clear.

Her startlingly clear blue eyes, perfectly matched by her dress color, obviously haven't missed much over the years.

"I understand," the animal seemed to say, its unspoken words startlingly clear in Limbeck's mind.

Dread's voice from the speaker by the gate was startlingly clear, as though he were standing right beside her.

That was when I saw Temellin in my head, his image startlingly clear.

Then in a startlingly clear voice, as if she was standing only a few inches from her side of the wall, Dorinda spoke.

The woman in the blue robe appeared as calm as her startlingly clear and gentle eyes.

It became startlingly clear to Pitt that the immigrants he'd just left were about to be loaded on the freight cars.

Harsh, startlingly clear, a sound tore the morning air, the alarm gong from the keep tower!