He found in them a startlingly high degree of practical inventiveness, and a rudimentary but remarkable understanding of language.

Although many of the recent returns have been startlingly high, analysts say they may not last.

Human leapt upward-- startlingly high, for his legs were powerful.

Evidently keen to be positive without misleading their readers, the magazine described the maximum speed as "satisfying but not startlingly high".

What was unusual was the startlingly high concentrations of the nastier toxins.

She says that Ms. Apter found "a startlingly high incidence of depression among successful women."

But with wages low and job loss startlingly high, it is still hard to predict what programs will achieve, either in the moral or economic sense.

His voice was startlingly high and thin, almost a falsetto.

It costs $349, startlingly high for a clock radio but not unreasonable if the claims are not overstated.

That is a startlingly high threshold, equal to the Federal poverty line.