Politicians and newscasters cannot look wide-eyed and startled about everything; soon, they just look comical.
Wolfsburg applied some concerted pressure and Van Gaal seemed startled about the way his side lost their rhythm.
"I was feeling very open in the conversation and told him about my interesting life experiences and he was quite startled about that," Judge Olson said.
So I was pretty startled about a year ago when I spotted Tony slowly walking around the pond.
To visit The Oval, in south London, during an England v West Indies Test was to be thrilled and startled in about equal measure by the carnival atmosphere created by the massed ranks of West Indians as they delighted in the ritual humiliation of England by the great teams led first by Clive Lloyd and then, even more formidably, by Viv Richards.
At the Luen Fat Market, where fresh snails, conch and grouper are on display, an employee dumps a big net full of live fish into a tank, and the startled creatures thrash about, splashing water all over my sandals.
"His leg was there," Hill said, "and it just kind of startled me about what was taking place.
But what both impressed and startled me about that afternoon in Flushing in 2012 was the insistence with which she tried to convince me how "normal" her life was.
"What startled me about the numbers was that for many procedures, a high percentage are being done by physicians who do one, two, three of these a year, not the ones who are doing 50, 100".
The Colonel, questioned by the startled Hoshino about his nature, quotes another venerable text, Ueda Akinari's "Tales of Moonlight and Rain": Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
And civilian bombing campaigns generally fail to break the will of the people What startled me about the response to disaster was not the virtue, since virtue is often the result of diligence and dutifulness, but the passionate joy that shone out from accounts by people who had barely survived.
