" USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and felt that the Dude was " too passive a hero to sustain interest ", but that there was " enough startling brilliance here to suggest that, just like the Dude, those smarty-pants Coens will abide.

Parker came along too, and the Eckstine band over the next few years would host a startling cast of jazz talent: Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey, Lucky Thompson, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, among others.

A later sophist who wrote one of the only remaining accounts of these great orators in his Lives of the Sophists, Philostratus describes Asianism as a form that “… aims at but never achieves the grand style .” He adds that its style is more, “ flowery, bombastic, full of startling metaphors, too metrical, too dependent on the tricks of rhetoric, too emotional .” This type of rhetoric is also sometimes referred to as “ Ionian ” and “ Ephesian ”, because it came from outside of Athens.

Hand also corrects one of the most startling scenes in Will's version, in which he breaks down emotionally, claiming that Will was too shy to do such a thing.

In later years Gibbs was sometimes criticised for being too one-dimensional but he did show startling agility to claim the winning try in the last-ever Five Nations match in 1999.

:" Some years ago, I too perpetrated some startling horrors in music, entitled Four Futurist Dances, and very hideous they were.

In homely terms whose timeliness is startling today, he thus declared his own right to secede.

In this work, his use of non-color is startling and skillful.

Skeptics may deny the more startling phenomena of dreams as things they have never personally observed, but failure to wonder at their basic mystery is outright avoidance of routine evidence.

the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics, if the present system is still in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords in the next generation '' ; ;

* Dave Holden: Starting off bed-ridden after his attack by the replicant Leon, Holden is rescued by Roy who in turn leads him to some startling revelations.

But, given all the attention paid to deteriorating security, the startling fact is that Iraq is growing at all.

The monster — the outsider — is driven from his scene of domestic pleasure by two gun-toting rubes who happen upon this startling alliance and quickly, instinctively, proceed to destroy it.

The effect is a startling realism and three-dimensional quality.

Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself.

Carlyle notes: " There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and Seneca .... We think that this cannot be better exemplified than with regard to the theory of the equality of human nature.

Revisionists understand Plato ’ s dictum that, “ those who tell the stories also hold the power .” Sometimes the purpose is as innocent as wanting to sell more books or attract attention with a startling headline.

In startling form, he once spoke in support of a strong executive, at least in wartime, saying about President Wilson, " He is already ... our partial dictator.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.

A startling example can be found with theologian John Scot Erigena ( 9th century ): " We do not know what God is.

What is startling is the tendency of prime numbers to lie on some diagonals more than others.

A saccade is also an involuntary consequence of turning of the head to one side or another in response to a startling noise off to the side, or a sudden motion detected in the visual periphery ( no reference ).

As is true in many literary first-person narratives, McElwee's approach in Sherman's March is simultaneously very revealing and somewhat mysterious: the candidness of the scenes is frequently startling, but the more the film — and McElwee-as-narrator — reveals, the more we realize that there are many aspects of the relationships he is recording that we are not privy to.

While his writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity.

It was a startling, almost numenous sight ; ;

For he was a doer of startling deeds, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

His face was swarthy, so brown that his white teeth flashed in startling contrast to his skin ; his eyes — tired, bored, but courteous.

Their victory over the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ) was a startling blow to the image of Ottoman invincibility.

Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

For instance, Babylon was assessed for the highest amount and for a startling mixture of commodities ; 1, 000 silver talents and four months supply of food for the army.

But perhaps more startling, and disturbing, was the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops.

This was startling enough.

The newly released Chicago Crime Commission publication, " The Gang Book 2012 ", conveyed a startling statistic that Chicago has more gang members than any other city in the United States: 150, 000 members Traditionally Los Angeles County was considered the Gang Capital of America, with an estimated 120, 000 ( 41, 000 in the City ) gang members ; Nevertheless, Chicago actually has a higher rate of gang membership per capita than Los Angeles ; and also the state of Illinois has a higher rate of gang membership ( 8-11 gang members per 1, 000 population ) than California ( 5-7 gang members per 1, 000 population ).

The most enduring of these " girlfriends " was an aspiring actress named Jackie Park, who bore a " startling " resemblance to Warner's second wife.

The most startling plan, the government charged, was to set off five bombs in 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a federal building housing the FBI.

On January 5, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission confirmed that the incident was caused by a resident setting off professional-grade fireworks, startling the birds into a panic flight.

'" The publication of " Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism " in 1995, criticizing this tendency, was startling to anarchists.

The deserted and solitary aspect of the island was brought out with a strange and startling effect by the presence of so many steamers ; and as Her Majesty's barge with the Royal Standard floated into the cave, the crew dipping their oars with the greatest precision, nothing could be more animated and grand than the appearance which the vast basaltic entrance, so solemn in its proportions, presented.

Entertainment Weekly felt Vurt was undeserving of receiving the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award, saying the book's " sentimental incest and adolescent self-congratulation ... is never really startling or disturbing.

However, the doctrine was startling to Mormons when it was introduced, and it remained controversial.

Similarly, Henri Labrouste proposed a reconstruction of the temples at Paestum to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1829, decked out in startling colour, inverting the accepted chronology of the three Doric temples, thereby implying that the development of the Greek orders did not increase in formal complexity over time, i. e., the evolution from Doric to Corinthian was not inexorable.

In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ), an ex-minister, published a startling nonfiction work called Nature, in which he claimed it was possible to dispense with organized religion and reach a lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural world.

In the 1990s, a dawning of a " golden age of cosmology " was accompanied by a startling discovery that the expansion of the universe was, in fact, accelerating.