Sentence examples for would have startled from inspiring English sources
"My material existence was so primitive that it would have startled proletarians in Western countries," Milosz reflected later.
Either way, the establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the recent enthusiasm for replicating it elsewhere would have startled our ancestors.
What would have startled the 600 men in the garrison at Segedunum – the "strong fort" in the centre of modern Wallsend – was the enthusiasm of the local population.
Still, this conflation of yoga with the Kama Sutra -- India's most famous exports to the West prior to information technology -- would have startled not only its Brahman practitioners in the Himalayas or along the Ganges but also the sages of Walden and Concord who first embraced Indian ideas of nondualism, the indivisibility of mind and matter, and the essential oneness of the universe.
The funny thing is that Pollan identified Borchardt as "a German-Jewish landscape designer," a designation that would have startled Borchardt, who didn't make a secret of his family's Jewish origins but who always described himself as Protestant and Prussian, and who certainly did not think of himself as a landscape designer.
Some critics felt that the concerto was old-fashioned; Peter Heyworth wrote that there was little in the work that would have startled an audience in the year the met its iceberg (1912).
What could have startled him?
The contradictory approaches have startled some of America's allies.
Even my fingers and toes have startled to tingle.
What seems to have startled you?
But it is also misleading: anyone lulled into expecting a proto-Minimalist meditation would have been startled by the wild, amusingly cacophonous outbursts that drive the piece.
