It startled not only Kromer but Renee, too, enough to spare him the laugh.
When they performed on television, Han was startled not only by their sequinned miniskirts but by their short hair.
With all the predictable bad taste in films, it's quite something to be startled not by mean-spirited jokes, but by an actress's openness.
Again, some ambassadors were startled: "not the most compelling possible candidate," said one.Technically Mr Gurría can appoint anyone he wants.
With all the predictable bad taste in films, it's quite something to be startled not by mean-spirited jokes, but by an actress's openness.
National Democrats said yesterday that they were startled not by what New York Democrats were complaining about -- the national committee routinely finds itself competing with state party leaders -- but that the party was making its case so publicly.
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.
Mrs Merkel played to the gallery by suggesting that persistent euro sinners should be thrown out of the group.These unEuropean outbursts startled not just Greeks, who brandished swastikas in response, but Europeans generally.
After Wright took her bow, on the night I was there, I was startled not to see a team of EMTs rushing backstage to resuscitate her.
