"We're always startled at the level of trust and honesty," Mrs. Beckwith said.
In these bare-branched months, I am always startled to rediscover them, bisecting the slopes like spines.
I met Michael through mutual friends a few years ago, and we became friendly; I was always startled and delighted when he'd propose a drink.
I'm always startled when some of the same people who say that gays are too promiscuous and irresponsible to marry turn around and urge us into marriages that practically beg to end in adultery and recklessness.
Still, when our media-digest packet finally turns up (there's so much demand for our scrawny bandwidth, so many technical transmissions in line ahead of anything personal, that the packet is usually delayed a week or two), I'm always startled at how many columns the papers devote to us.
I particularly liked the novelist Penelope Lively's admission: "I am always wonderfully startled by the first sight of the jacket art for a forthcoming book — Oh!
(LE) POISSON ROUGE 158 Bleecker St. (212-796-0741) — SepThree Three players who are always willing to startle an audience — the saxophonist John Zorn, the bassist Bill Laswell, and the drummer Milford Graves — stir up free-jazz trouble.
But as my babies let out that startled wail there was always a tiny moment of panic: what if I'm wrong?
When I was younger, some of my family thought it was fun to startle me and I was always good natured about it.
The auditory blink and startle reflex task was always administered first, to minimize habituation effects on this task.
