Sentence examples for much startled from inspiring English sources

PARIS — The French capital was almost as much startled yesterday [Aug.

Thus, it seems that the attenuation effect is partly driven by the fact that we are not (that much) startled by sounds produced by ourselves.

This was not a result of a natural disaster or armed revolution, but rather of a very proper, very democratic election that shocked me and my friends and startled much of the world.

In an opinion two years ago, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit startled much of official Washington and the legal world by reviving the so-called nondelegation doctrine, which the Supreme Court had used to strike down two New Deal programs in 1935 but that had fallen into great disfavor since them.

MPs may have been startled, as much as anything, by the spectacle of a resignation on principle from the party of shift and spin.

He offered me so much that I was startled, and left the picture with him, as I could not afford to insure it for that sum.

"I wasn't startled so much as I felt validated" by the new numbers, said Anthony W. Sutton, deputy commissioner of the department of emergency services.

Long before Silvio Berlusconi inflamed much of Europe and startled the world beyond it by comparing a German politician to a concentration camp leader, he had established -- even cultivated -- an image as a flamboyant politician who brazenly speaks his mind.

"Inverted Utopias" — the blockbuster exhibition that, in the summer of 2004, filled much of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston with Latin American art — startled viewers as much with its omissions as with its contents.

I was startled by how much those words hurt.

This startled me so much I almost fell off the scaffold.