Sentence examples for perpetually startled from inspiring English sources
Watson — with her perpetually startled expression, high, intelligent forehead, and Claymation lips — is not at ease onstage.
You are perpetually startled, not so much by surprising events (these are routine) as by the vague but unmistakable sense that things look different, that something more complicated is happening than the passive act of looking.
As the undergraduate, Paul Rhys is perpetually startled and eager he is an extremely intense and extraordinarily open actor, sometimes so intense and open as to be alarming he can look as if his face is about to melt.
Mr. Toast had the perpetually startled look and trembling hands of a Vietnam vet or a drinker — both of which, in fact, he was — but he proved to be a remarkably gentle man, and an invaluable guide through the intricacies of my new life.
Movement always startles chipmunks.
Mr. Stiller, with his bony, oversize head protruding from a torso that seems perpetually knotted in a tense bodybuilder's pose, often gives the impression of a turtle anxiously peering out of its shell, startled and bug-eyed.
"Oh," she said, startled.
Then something startled me.
Horses are easily startled.
