1.   As one of the few computer users who has experienced such a software agent, Horvitz concedes that it has had a startling effect on him.

2.   Actually, after the startling effect of the first contact, this coarse scrubbing had a strangely soothing effect.

3.   One could go on and on about the work, the lavish embroideries, the provocative way in which the designer mixes disparate elements for startling effect.

4.   Soundtrack compilers use music from afar to provide subliminally startling effects or instant exoticism.

5.   The new arrangement has a startling effect on her marriage.

6.   The sheer firepower of computers, experts say, is certain to race ahead to startling effect over the next few years.

7.   This startling effect of immediacy is necessarily accompanied by a sense of detachment, not only from the people and objects Nachtwey sees, but from the man himself.

8.   When Omar ordered opium production halted, the decree had a startling effect.

9.   While some studio-made rock refuses to recreate the illusion of a concert, mere stereo already provides plenty of startling spatial effects.