1.   The big modern factories make a startling contrast to the opposite side of the road.

2.   The two visitors provided a startling contrast in appearance.

3.   It is a city of startling contrasts.

4.   Then, after miles of road lined with orchards in full blossom, came the startling contrast of the area populated by Hungarians.

5.   Below the whitewashed monastery, the little village seems to hang down the slope, its emerald fields of barley in startling contrast to the barren landscape.

6.   Biting into the oyster releases its briny essence, setting up a startling contrast to the luxurious sauce.

7.   But he was grinning, well aware of the comically startling contrast he had already created by dressing up this venerable site for a gaudy funeral with commercial sponsors.

8.   But Smith offers those aspirations with an air of quiet humility, a startling contrast to his on-field persona.

9.   Eicher has given us a CD of startling contrasts -- aridity and fecundity, passion and clarity, spiritual desolation and the songs of angels.

10.   His life was distinguished, and to a great extent defined, by startling contrasts and contradictions.