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Denzel Washington startled me with his "decent" British accent and his ability to remain consistent throughout the film.
Viewers accustomed to the Charlie Chaplin of CITY LIGHTS and MODERN TIMES may be startled to see just how rowdy his early Keystone comedies could get.
Fortunately, the film didn't prove realistic enough to provoke anything more than a startled gasp or two from me.
at the end of the scene, they are startled by nothing and in the corner of the screen you see a man's hand holding up a lantern to light the set.
Back at his digs, Paul makes the call and is startled to get an invitation from the lady to visit her apartment in Soho.
He has also been startled by the rise of domestic opposition.
Like sleepers awakened by a shock, people across the globe are startled to discover that they are still living in the nuclear age.
I attended the committee’s launch and was startled that the “Climate Commission” barely mentioned climate change.
The e-commerce giant Amazon – which has lately been cultivating India as the next frontier of its global expansion, reflected in plans to invest $5 billion in the country – was recently startled by a series of intemperate tweets from Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
“I am very sorry,” he said to startled onlookers.
That move startled so many people in and out of the White House because it seemed to come out of nowhere, and there was no good explanation for it.
Likewise, the leader of Britain’s Conservatives, David Cameron, startled more old-fashioned supporters of his party by saying that people released from prison “need, above all, love.”
In January, for example, Abbott informed a startled Davos conference that the global financial crisis was caused not by unregulated global markets, but rather by too much governance.
Argentina the OutcastBRASILIA – Roughly 20 years ago, an important Argentine minister startled a newly arrived Brazilian ambassador by telling him that “Argentina is prodigal in three things: meat, wheat, and insane gestures.”
French President Jacques Chirac unguardedly speculated that an Iran with one or two nuclear bombs might not pose a serious a threat, given the possibility of nuclear retaliation -- his musings so startled French officials that they quickly jumped in to correct the President’s comments.
A second possible explanation is that Bernanke and other Fed leaders were indeed anticipating that they would begin tapering QE in September but were startled at how rapidly long-term rates had risen in response to their earlier statements.
While the West accumulated debts, Asia had startled the world with its long economic boom.
But he startled markets recently by saying that the FOMC’s expected path of stronger growth could lead to a slower pace of buying later this year and an end to the asset purchases by mid-2014.
The Saudis were never comfortable with President Barack Obama’s overtures to Iran, and were particularly startled when he told The Atlantic magazine that the Iranians and Saudis “need to find an effective way to share the neighborhood and institute some sort of cold peace.”
Since mid-August, when Chinese policymakers startled the markets by devaluing the renminbi by 2%, China’s official intervention in foreign-exchange markets has continued, in order to prevent the currency from falling further.
When I produced my parliamentary ID card, his response startled me: “Yet another reason to fuck you.”
While investors were still digesting the full significance of this event, US President Donald Trump’s administration startled the market by labeling China a “currency manipulator.”
Only during the very first days in Moscow had the unproductive but inevitable expenditure, so strange to country folk, yet demanded on all sides, startled Levin.
M. Hennebeau startled; then turned off the question with a vague phrase.
He roared; his breath startled the flowers of painted paper beneath the low smoky ceiling which sent back the sound of his voice.
Startled by these reproaches in the midst of his report, Dansaert denied, stammered excuses, while his great nose confessed the crime by its sudden redness.
A devoted lad who went with me on all my journeys; a gallant Flemish boy whom I genuinely liked and who returned the compliment; a born stoic, punctilious on principle, habitually hardworking, rarely startled by life's surprises, very skillful with his hands, efficient in his every duty, and despite his having a name that means "counsel," never giving advice-- not even the unsolicited kind!
CHAPTER 7A Whale of Unknown SpeciesALTHOUGH I WAS startled by this unexpected descent, I at least have a very clear recollection of my sensations during it.
Under the green shade of some tropical evergreens, I spotted a few savages who looked extremely startled at our approach.
What happened to master?"Conseil asked, very startled.
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