The theory, which has its proponents and detractors in both academia and the television industry, is startlingly simple.

Some of those lessons are startlingly simple.

In concept they had been startlingly simple.

In 1921 Alfred Watkins made an apparent discovery that was startlingly simple and yet revolutionary.

The technique is startlingly simple.

RECORDS, it said, in a startlingly simple statement.

And while he seems to register every tremor of thought with startlingly simple lucidity, there is nothing simplistic about him.

His method had been simple . . . startlingly simple in the light of what was about to occur: he had cleansed himself.

But Ms. Silva shot back with an explanation for inertia that was startlingly simple.

And now, 10 years later, he has become a very different kind of do-gooder, one with a mission both radically ambitious and startlingly simple.