Sentence examples similar to face startle from inspiring English sources
Darius stands helpless in his chariot, his face startled and appalled, like a frightened rabbit.
Or him lifting up those hoops of Victorian imprisonment to go under her dress and Hunter's hitherto blank face startled into expression.
The photograph shows a baby face startled by the camera.Makengo's muddied or bloodied identity card lay in the trench where he is buried, next to a smashed anti-aircraft gun.
His self-published "Haunted Attraction Employee Handbook" gives tips on timing in-your-face startle scares and making the blood, guts and gore as slimy and disgusting as possible for gross out scares.
The living embodiment of John Waters' clarion casting-call for "faces that startle, not soothe", actor Ron Perlman has the hardest-working face in show-business.
A face looks startled one moment and is dead the next.
One of them, a lanky 27-year-old with a lean, foxlike face, seemed startled when I asked about his childhood; I got the sense that no one had bothered to ask him before.
Like his beady-eyed and bloated Bavarian forebear, the svelte Seidl favours agonising deadpan gazes at ugliness and exploitative behaviour, favours "faces that startle rather than soothe" (Waters again), and concurs with Fassbinder's claim that "love is … the most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression".
Her startled face broke into a big smile.
They all looked up to see the serving woman's startled face under her shower cap.
