startling
The information can be startlingly detailed.
He is passionate, wealthy and startlingly handsome.
You have to understand the rules of the game, which can be startlingly different from what you are used to.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surprising and shocking
against all expectationsphrase
amaze
amazing
amazingly
astonish
dumbfounding
dumbfoundingly
dynamite
earth-shaking
earth-shattering
one for the booksidiom
pull
pull something out of the bag/hatidiom
raise (a few) eyebrowsidiom
reality check
turn-up for the book(s)idiom
unbelievable
walk
walk in on someone
world-shattering

Examples of startlingly

startlingly
He was tenured in a startlingly fast four years!
He begins by presenting a startlingly novel definition of history.
But when examined closely, they proved startlingly elusive.
This startlingly candid speech thus reinforces the conclusions reached throughout this paper.
This is a startlingly high proportion, and the correlations were only marginally weaker when they excluded participants who had used regularly but were now abstaining.
Some of her most startling movements are startlingly precisely because the provenance of their contours is not easily recognizable.
Of all the goods on offer, priority went to the car which changed shape startlingly as the decade progressed.
More startlingly, it appears to betray ignorance of some elementary requirements that must be met for a language contact hypothesis to be at all plausible.
Nevertheless, it has within it some startlingly good contributions.
If the collection evidences any one deficiency, it is that it does not present any startlingly original theoretical perspectives on the issues it addresses.
In fact, their factor effect for on use is startlingly low (.14).
Litigation as an aspect of business life is still startlingly absent from monographs devoted to particular merchant groups.
Instead, the horror of it all is suddenly and startlingly undermined.
Most geneticists will know that the enthusiastic response from an everincreasing number of laboratories has led to a startlingly rapid growth of knowledge on the worm.
It made startlingly accurate demographic forecasts at the time, and drew attention to the ways in which needs, and policy responses, had to be seen as inter-related.
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