As a result, his buildings, although they unmistakably belong to their century, often have a startlingly modern look.

But Man Ray has made the image startlingly modern, the solarization giving the figure a stark, clean, metallic quality.

Its walls and ceilings are completely covered with murals, including some startlingly modern ones on the high rear wall.

Even Ataturk's definition of nationality was startlingly modern.

Its dark comedy and bitterly satiric portraits of Homeric heroes have a startlingly modern sensibility.

Mr. Hardy designed a startlingly modern structure.

It is, in fact, not only one of the most beautiful houses in England but was, in its time, startlingly modern.

His current collection is startlingly modern - think Missoni or Mark Rothko, only prehistoric.

Some of the Roman devices in the exhibition seem startlingly modern.

At the outset, she notes that Child's work seems to have a "startlingly modern ring."