Sentence examples for Startled expression from inspiring English sources

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Redmond performed in a mac, had a slightly startled expression, spoke very slowly and deadpanned brilliantly.

Herve Tullet is discovered behind his studio door, revealed by a passport snap with startled expression.

They both turned to my husband and me with a startled expression.

Watson — with her perpetually startled expression, high, intelligent forehead, and Claymation lips — is not at ease onstage.

Self-Portrait with Startled Expression The key here is to be able to constantly startle yourself as you're painting.

What to the untrained eye might look like a bunny with a permanently startled expression is, in fact, a meticulously refined modernist work.

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Or him lifting up those hoops of Victorian imprisonment to go under her dress and Hunter's hitherto blank face startled into expression.

At Harrods, where the threesome popped by for some spontaneous retail therapy, Ruby and Gest mugged for the bemused shoppers while, entirely out of shot, Liza waited for her fairground barkers to pipe down, perhaps wearing that startled fawn expression that is so at odds with her dirty cackle.

There is a lot of perfectly ventriloquised dissident teenage humour, and a deliciously throwaway surreal moment when Nora happens upon a man sacrificing a sheep in a forest: "Both the man and the sheep gazed at Nora with startled, unhappy expressions, as if she'd caught them in an act they would have preferred to remain private".

As her veil falls back over her face it covers a startled, wide-eyed expression of excitement – or fear.

As for Ms. Miller, whose angry expression startled the little boy, she was so concerned that she sought out cosmetic treatment to help soften her look.

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