The country's well-known Muslim comic, Shabana Rehman, decided to find out Tuesday when she lifted the founder of Iraq's Ansar al-Islam terrorist group off the ground before a startled audience.
Many were unable to verify the safety of their parents, many had heard a rumor that Stuyvesant High School was attacked and then, after hearing that all planes were grounded, many were startled by the sound of two planes flying overhead.
Then he was invited with a group of other actors to visit with some of the rescuers near ground zero, and was startled at how grateful they seemed for the respite from the horror.
Nonetheless, residents accustomed to more stable ground beneath their feet have been startled.
The phrase "No, totally!" seemed to suggest, instead, genuine engagement: a startled, joyful discovery of common ground.
It normally stays on the ground all the time and runs when startled.
The cane clattered to the ground as he stood there, Girayuth said, startled but unhurt, and grateful.
So when the grounds were dug up for development in 1929, startled workers found the site full of skeletons.
Someone wandering along the banks of the Rio Grande, on the American side, in the summer of 2009 might have been startled by a small cardboard box plummeting to the ground.
Following it inside, I'm startled to see a mysterious woman lying on the ground, her head entirely shrouded and her hands tied in plastic bags.
