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  • A conclusion urges on the audience the unstartling idea that they make up their own minds.

    The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review 2011

  • Gallup tells us that the political values of young people are startlingly unstartling.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • Gallup tells us that the political values of young people are startlingly unstartling.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • Gallup tells us that the political values of young people are startlingly unstartling.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • Online music Yes, radio, No p2p news/p2pnet: - Teens would rather listen to music online than on the radio, is one of the unstartling findings in a new study.

    Online music Yes, radio, No 2005

  • Online music Yes, radio, No p2p news / p2pnet:- Teens would rather listen to music online than on the radio, is one of the unstartling findings in a new study.

    Online music Yes, radio, No 2005

  • A study of help-desks has uncovered the unstartling fact that bosses -- managers, supervisors and other members of the pointy-haired cohort -- account for a disproportionate volume of tech-support calls.

    Boing Boing: January 20, 2002 - January 26, 2002 Archives 2002

  • One of the most startling things about California's groundbreaking adoption of a market-based policy to cut emissions of the heat-trapping gases was how unstartling the final meeting was.

    NYT > Home Page By FELICITY BARRINGER 2011

  • It was easier to call the revelations unstartling, dull even, if one lived in western Europe, rather than in Belarus, Tunisia, or in any other oppressive regime.

    The Guardian World News Simon Jeffery 2011

  • When we first read the statements of Jesus, they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unnoticed into our subconscious minds.

    Latest Articles 2010

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