startling

So startling is the transformation that the Bruins have made since their winless start that they are the ones now being praised by the coach of one of the nation’s top teams.

The camera tracks the characters with startling skill and speed, from above, below, alongside and even behind as they rush through groves and thickets.

Candy’s son, Christopher, and his daughter, Jennifer, partially attribute Candy’s chronic anxiety and health problems to this massive childhood trauma and the startling lack of response to it.

The star was also in a constant battle with stage fright—a startling admission for a larger-than-life performer with a reputation for spooky, unnerving antics.

“They are euphoric,” he writes in “Hostage,” a book of startling eloquence, unimaginable anguish and exceptionally restrained rage.