Among other things, the production is a startling reminder that while the play is forever adaptable, it's not indestructible.

But to have the former Beatle turn up as a poster boy for codgers-in-training was a startling reminder of time's relentless passage.

I think Table 1 is an absolute killer - a really startling reminder of the underlying asymmetries that it is proposed are ignored.

It was a startling reminder of how little the experts know, in this obesity-plagued nation, about the best way to lose weight and keep it off.

It's a startling reminder of the size of the stage where the ballet was premiered.

The violence was a startling reminder of the depth of radical Islamic fervor in a country that is trying to make a transition to democracy.

The death of a sibling, he said, grievous in itself, is also a startling reminder of our own mortality.

For a startling reminder of the region's past, one need only stop before a recently installed pink stone sarcophagus, dating from the third century B.C.

Cajun-flavored or just plain salted, they are a startling reminder that peanuts are not a nut but an earthy legume.

Instead he found a startling reminder of her ex-husband.