The question had a startling effect on the tough-looking American.

This action caused a startling effect in the closed room beyond the door.

Still, the designers were free to experiment - sometimes to startling effect.

The new arrangement has a startling effect on her marriage.

It was a startling effect, as though he'd stepped through an empty space.

Tom Cruise thinking is the year's most startling special effect.

It also seemed to have a startling effect on the kind of vehicles people brought over.

In the presence of any atmosphere at all, they had a startling effect.

That was the only change, but it had a startling effect of command.

She does not come into focus until later in the novel, with startling effect.