The startling shift in scale from many tiny works to a few large paintings reveals Ms. Nelson's powers of appropriation even more intensely.

Only with a final startling shift in imagery at the end does the piece become something more than itself, in true Pilobolian fashion.

"You idiot" she screamed, with a startling shift of attitude.

With a startling shift of perspective he realized that he had come to think of himself as a god, an observer, invulnerable, above interference.

Dahlkoetter said that, in a startling shift, most newcomers made the marathon their first race.

One of the most startling shifts in American attitudes since Sept. 11 has been toward pharmaceutical patents.

Yet there is also a startling shift of perspective that vastly enlarges rather than diminishes feeling.

True, they had shown startling shifts, almost as if a light had blinked from two places at once.

When she spoke again it was with a startling shift of topic.

The Republican concern arises from a startling shift in political donations from businesses to the House fund-raising committees.