"Enjoying nature after a startle," the star captioned a Jan.
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They were jerky, odd movements, resembling a newborn's startle reflexes.
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Experiments have shown that they have a reduced startle response.
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Little sounds would startle me, and my skin felt flush.
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The administration's move didn't only startle supporters of the law.
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A loud clank when it hit the floor made her startle.
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They also can startle the sea creatures they're supposed to study.
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Usually the parents say firecrackers so they don't startle the kids.
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Dogs do not bark to irritate or startle or dominate people.
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"Wings For Marie," part one and two, still startle with their tenderness.
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Voila, you just mimicked a sex position that would startle your grandmother.
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These windows of energy can startle family members sitting at the bedside.
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This selfless act would startle the electorate and electrify the Democratic Party.
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Sometimes he would hide under the bathroom sink and startle unsuspecting visitors.
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Trips to Asia are now more likely to startle us with modernity.
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While the cartridges were blanks, the commotion caused her horse to startle.
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Rodriguez, 66, is so desperate for water that this news didn't startle him.
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They would do us no harm, as long as we didn't startle them.
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Little things sometimes startle him, like getting a text message from an unknown number.
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Protesters are unlikely to startle any world leaders during the June 8-9 meeting.
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Some questions might startle an American: How often do you quarrel with your family?
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Yet some images, such as shots of the solo piece "Interior Scroll," still startle.
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The attention seemed to startle her, since she described her vocation in modest terms.
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The recommendations, among the most comprehensive and restrictive to date, may startle some parents.
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While Benz's execution is a little uneven, her unconventional tales consistently startle and charm.
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She can try not to startle the horses by speaking softly and moving slowly.
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At one point, a pyrotechnic explosion appeared to startle the penguins, sending them scrambling.
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And he was quiet too, as if any movement or sound might startle the animal.
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The play's startle factor now lies in its discomfiting depictions of undisguised racism and homophobia.
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The entire time, I was just waiting for something to reach out and startle me.
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And to do that, he said, you have to startle them and make them angry.
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It didn't upset me so much as startle me; it was like seeing a ghost.
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Should I slow my stride so as not to startle the white woman up ahead?
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All of which may startle Americans, who tend to be more prudish than the British.
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The only way to train for startle is in a simulator or in real life.
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The boy does not startle as the fake guillotine blade falls inches from his heels.
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He did it again that month when he jumped out of the dark to startle Cyrus.
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Just when the hero or heroine feels safe, the monster appears from nowhere to startle them.
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"His strength would startle you but then his softness would catch you off guard," he continues.
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Alarms should emit noises that startle, but that shouldn't mean they all have to sound terrible.
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He moves toward them slowly and quietly, so as not to startle any of the creatures.
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The digital world might startle the stern and cerebral justice: he loathed newspapers filled with "gossip".
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Unexpected sounds, sudden cuts and things jumping into the frame are guaranteed to startle the audience.
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I startle so easily, I tell people I was a spooked horse in a past life.
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A few other artists also used the anamorphic to startle their viewer with this fatal future.
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"He's there," I said calmly, as though any excitement in my voice might startle him away.
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The box would scrape against the carpet when he opened the door and startle Flores awake.
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This mind-bending novella about a writer losing his marbles contains images that startle and linger.
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He said that he didn't want to startle me, but he's never felt this way before.
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The rumble of passing trains sent women rushing out of the dressing rooms in a startle.
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For rap fans as well as fans of pop crossover, these albums startle: why such length?
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She returns to the back door and slams it behind her to startle them, and it works.
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It was strange enough to startle but not strange enough for anyone to cross the suburban abyss.
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It's enough to startle even the most hardened city dweller—and has lately become fodder for journalists.
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"When that outer pane fails, although it's going to startle somebody," it is not dangerous, he said.
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Denino would occasionally startle awake and chuck a pillow at the camera or chew out his viewers.
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Does it startle you when you see real-life politics replicating absurd things you've done on "Veep"?
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During his long, illustrious career, Robert Morris has constructed sculptures that startle, question, challenge and flout expectations.
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The only precaution his handlers take, Bourez says, is to approach Patch carefully so they don't startle him.
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Her reverie is only interrupted by birds, which startle her so much that she brings out her gun.
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He jumps when the monsters attack, but the scene is designed to startle, even if you're expecting it.
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But I also liked the ones that exercised artistic license, breaching the group choreography to startle audience members.
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These graceful, delicate creatures can startle you with their presence, just before they poop on your front lawn.
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We are going fast, but also you wouldn't want to startle your own horse with fabric flying around.
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Tip ''Don't startle the person,'' says Charlene Gamaldo, the medical director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep.
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Instead, his career is one checkered by bold experiments that startle with their daring objectives, if not their consistency.
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His presence seemed to startle the girls, and they just looked frightened – like they weren't supposed to be outside.
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Newborns can startle easily and have jittery movements in response to stimuli, and this is normal, the doctors note.
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This seemed to startle the FBI (I think out of Phoenix or Tucson) and they never contacted xxxx again.
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It can startle, whether you see it on the Met's roof or spy it from a Central Park walkway.
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You can startle yourself into action when you realize the answer is years, decades, or worse, your entire life.
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Without wrapping, your infant will flail her arms, whack herself in the face and startle easily throughout the night.
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While storming forwards and using his presence to startle Bisping, he was clipped with a couple of decent shots.
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But MoMA just owns so damn much that chances are you'll encounter something that has the capacity to startle.
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These moments startle, and yet the book feels a little too close to home, a little too, well, safe.
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Or perhaps the sudden appearance of stripes may overload the fly's vision and startle it into a buzzing stupor.
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Street Scene Nearly eight years after the onset of the financial crisis, its unintended consequences continue to startle and amaze.
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A Reuters witness said the quake was felt very briefly in San Jose, but it was enough to startle residents.
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This is a movie that aims to startle in overt and subtextual ways; the less known before viewing, the better.
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It was one way to startle people away from the best-dressed slide shows on their cellphones and into attention.
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The result may be animals that are less likely to startle, and are more amenable to being handled by people.
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Cohen could be as daring with his word combinations as Dylan, and his rage could startle with its prescience and vision.
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The team works together to corral the birds into a spot where cannons can startle them and nets can catch them.
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What did startle me, though, was that when I turned to respond "Of course!" he was holding a shiny White Claw.
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Some of them have been printed on a wall near the portrait, where they startle visitors with their open anti-Semitism.
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"Their job is to send the birds down," says Etchemendy, which they accomplish by vigorously waving the sheets to startle them.
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The flavors of Filipino cooking, like Rizal's broken jar of bagoong, still have the power to startle those unfamiliar with them.
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He also said the government should not startle business markets with an abrupt change in its approach to antitrust legal theory.
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If you have to undo them in the middle of the night, it could startle your baby, although Ellie never minded.
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It recommended Boeing take into account how multiple alerts could startle pilots and hinder their ability to regain control of the aircraft.
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That fact alone, the financial cost incurred due to extreme weather — in the hundreds of billions last year—should startle fiscal conservatives.
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Meanwhile, depictions of non-white history—particularly when not edited or modified for the sensibilities of white audiences—still seem to startle.
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It's taller than anything as far as the eye can see and thick enough to deaden any sound that might otherwise startle.
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After returning home, I experienced the usual PTSD symptoms: nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilance, the need to self-medicate and an exaggerated startle reflex.
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Art Review Turning bodies into paint brushes, Carolee Schneemann's performances, films and art still startle, as a retrospective at MoMA PS21964 shows.
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Also in attendance was a life-size cardboard cutout of Maddow, which is now in storage so as not to startle guests.
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Seidel's poems have always found new ways to startle, learned from poets whose lives ratified the desperation they expressed on the page.
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Someone with PTSD can also have nightmares, withdraw from normal social interactions, startle easily, or be constantly on the lookout for potential threats.
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Shug's character is sexually involved with each of them; she and Celie have a fleeting onstage kiss that often seems to startle audiences.
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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
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These videos, vital and yet never quite like the experience of having sat through a production, still have the power to startle viewers.
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Absorbing her paintings at John Davis, one is liable to startle at her "simple" planes of color: this is the way objects look.
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People might startle at the image of someone old enough to be their grandparents willingly embarking on a night of hallucinations and vomiting.
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Often utilizing full-body special effects make-up and prosthetics, Jader's looks startle, haunt, and sometimes provoke utter disgust—a reaction that he relishes.
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YOKO ONO has been making art for the better part of six decades, never failing to startle, provoke and sometimes get under the skin.
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While plainly pleased to startle, he takes the subject as a pretext for amplifying his specialties of sinuous form, pulsating color, and virtuosic brushwork.
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A book like this one is particularly valuable in an age when history undergraduates often startle their teachers by their ignorance of basic facts.
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Some experts are raising questions about how fast-moving bikes startle not just bears, but elk, deer and other species, and disrupt their lives.
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A combination of natural beauty and urban charm that will startle only people who have never visited before, Boise has a lot to offer.
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One classic example of a trigger is fireworks on the Fourth of July, which can startle and trigger flashbacks in veterans with PTSD from combat.
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The yen's steep climb this month has spurred a startle response among Japan's policymakers who face a fish stew of forces pushing the currency higher.
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It cannot be enough to slowly induce oil and gas companies to shift to more carbon-friendly practices, taking care not to unduly startle them.
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Aside from desiring the "high" that accompanies a startle, Dr. Berry says horror fans may have a certain level of "morbid curiosity" that others don't.
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"There is nothing on the court that is going to startle or scare me," Nelson told reporters Monday after his first practice with the team.
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After more than half a century in the theater, Mr. Ayckbourn clearly still has the power to startle us into the most appropriately inappropriate reactions.
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The pair seemed, Mr. Belzer noted, dangerous — a template that subsequent generations of comics adapted to their own times, using comedy to prod, startle, challenge.
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This prompt is much easier to understand, and will probably startle people into slimming down the list of apps that can monitor where they are.
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Wherever those shock waves reached the ground below, they'd be heard as a loud "BANG, BANG" that could rattle windows, shake structures, and startle people.
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They react to the frequency of propellers as boats are going down and it causes them to have a startle response; they jump out of water.
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After eight weeks, the researchers performed a startle test — "the equivalent of walking up behind your friend and yelling 'Boo!' and watching them jump," Liu says.
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Both disciplines use clothing to startle and amuse, and both understand its ability to undermine expectations; they exploit that to demand a reassessment of the everyday.
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At the very beginning, however, it is alive with odd ducks that startle the eye, expose technical secrets and let us watch the creative process unfold.
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His eyes were like hot oil, and I let myself feel like Suzanne, the kind of girl a man would startle at, would want to touch.
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By the mid-1980s, the Veterans Administration had linked such treatment to memory loss, an exaggerated startle reflex, horrific nightmares, headaches and an inability to concentrate.
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The human-ish language it generates can startle us into seeing things anew, so we can in turn jolt readers awake through that sense of -ish.
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The unexpected troop withdrawals in Syria and Afghanistan did not just startle allies, some analysts predicted the moves could diminish American leverage, rather than enhance it.
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But that unconscious facility can be a limitation for poets, who hope to startle and reorient the language, to use grammar without being used by it.
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The suggestion appeared to startle Friedrich, who has been pressing to get the trial started in the case, which was filed more than two years ago.
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Occasionally I forgot that the app was in workout mode, and the voice would startle me, jolting me out of whatever runner's daydream I was having.
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The Universal Pictures subsidiary saw films like "Downton Abbey" ($97 million) and "Harriet" ($42 million) over-perform in ways that seemed to startle even the studio.
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Such encounters temporarily free us from civilization's sedative effects, and startle our consciousness about the improbable, fundamental fact that we too are animals and we exist.
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Animal control officials hoped to get the critter down when it reached the 23rd floor of the building, but were afraid that personnel may startle the animal.
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NBC news reporter Miguel Almaguer tweeted early Monday morning that a "thunderous explosion" appeared "to startle many police" and send people running in the Elizabeth train station.
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The boy and girl start out with nasty looks on their faces, wielding sticks that they use to flip a helpless turtle and startle a red bird.
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Before cries of "false equivalence" shatter windows and startle forest creatures, I should make clear that I'd take Clinton over Trump in any role on any day.
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One distinctive strength of male couples is that their tendency to candidly discuss respective preferences extends to sexuality as well, including choices that may startle some heterosexuals.
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There may not be an episode as dramatic as the Georgetown slave sale, but some of the stories told at the conference had the power to startle.
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Unlike the 2002 Gore Verbinski film that started the franchise, which was built on creepy imagery and mounting psychological terror, Rings is content to startle rather than scare.
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At that point, the benefits of swaddling diminish as the startle reflex in newborns goes away, and potential risks such as flat head and plagiocephaly increase, she said.
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You start leaving eyebrow pencil on when they sleep at yours because you don't want to startle them with your Mrs Potato no-makeup face in the morning.
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Modders sometimes get carried away with themselves in their makeovers, stuffing in all kinds of fancy textures and gameplay elements that stun and startle just because they can.
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Now any loud noise made him jump—her husband took to making his smoothies in the garage, because her father would startle at the sound of the blender.
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If you mainly know "Merrily" 's music, it may startle you to realize, watching this performance, that you also already know the characters as intimately as you can.
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If someone startled you while you were watching a horror movie, you would probably show an "exaggerated startle response"—in other words, you'd jump out of your skin.
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Her victim would startle as soon as she felt (or smelled) the dead animal, loudly screaming and wildly shaking her body to get this foul thing off her.
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Avoid sudden movements that might startle the billionaire, for if that happens he will signal to the others and they will hurry off shrieking through the penthouse canopy.
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He calls them "wolf sentences" for their ability to startle both the author and the reader and for the untamed vitality such lines can add to a scene.
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According to the study, seabass typically use a method called "startle and response," where they hear an unusual sound, get frightened, and then escape from potential predatory danger.
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There are the creepy sounds that startle you awake from a peaceful slumber, then there are the existential concerns that keep you from falling asleep in the first place.
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When then chilies have plumped up, drain and cut them into very fine threads, making certain that there are no fiery clumps sticking together that will startle your dinners.
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When there's a distraction as blinding as a huge age difference, it takes a lot to startle you, to wake you from the blissful idiocy you've busied yourself with.
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I can tell you firsthand that the startle factor is real and it is huge — it interferes with one's ability to quickly analyze the crisis and take effective action.
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Wombats are herbivores, but they have powerful jaws and big claws for burrowing, and have been known to bite and scratch people who startle them or approach their young.
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You know, because I'm a very considerate person and don't want to startle or confuse my roommates in the middle of the night with sounds of lightning and thunder.
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This choreography puzzles experts: Many other birds, including the famously elaborate satin bowerbird, actually tone down their displays once a female expresses interest, so as not to startle her.
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"It will startle an intruder, as they have no idea if it was a homeowner who flipped on a light switch or if it was motion detection," he said.
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In theory, the work is not far off from the brothers' past installations, like Sex Room, that played up phallic imagery to startle and then confront how we approach sex.
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Third, it must be at a constant level: no quiet bits, when cabin sounds can seep through and break the spell, and not too many crescendos that might startle you.
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She brings her dog to the vet, her kids to school, herself to work, speeding to each destination, spilling spaghetti and coffee all over herself at every startle and turn.
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There were 2260 of each against Halep, a statistic unlikely to startle those who had watched Ostapenko slug and shrug her way through the six matches leading to the final.
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In a later gallery (number 8), Gormley's body has been cast in metal, over and over again, and these gently oxidizing body-casts are displayed in ways that stun and startle.
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At least in the comfort of her fantasyland, she could startle herself awake, but she knew that now, since this was a real-life moment, she couldn't do none of that.
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They might even startle us out of complacent acquiescence and so change our minds, helping us think what hasn't been thought before, or reminding us of what is as yet unseen.
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If you need something to startle you awake this morning, look no further: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted footage of himself stripteasing, dad-style, outside Tesla&aposs new Shanghai Gigafactory.
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Raised in prerevolutionary Tehran, Mr. Harward was known to startle his Afghan counterparts during his tours there by conversing with them fluently in Farsi, which is similar to their native Dari.
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Yet his mug shots endure as an intriguing form of early portraiture, and his crime scene photographs still startle through his inventive technique, which involved a camera positioned high on a tripod.
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Among Alice's foes are hordes of flesh-eating undead, and it's to Mr. Anderson's credit that even in a pop culture glutted with postmodern zombies, he can make his creatures startle viewers.
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Glenn Kenny named the movie a Critic's Pick in his review, writing, "This is a movie that aims to startle in overt and subtextual ways; the less known before viewing, the better."
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I get hypervigilant on a packed subway car and my manic, mercurial co-workers can sometimes startle me, prompting a time-out in a secluded spot until I'm sure I'm breathing again.
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Knock on or check under the hood before starting a vehicle and honk the horn to startle any pets or even wild animals who may have sought shelter in or underneath your car.
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And all this is happening in a part of remote, white America, in which being an adult black male briskly rounding an aisle in the grocery store is enough to startle another shopper.
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But there's often a startle effect, too, as with that show's live goose: so large and unmistakably real that when she appears she brings an element of risk, a potential for unscripted action.
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The first answer seemed to startle him: a middle-aged man who said he was a longtime Labour supporter and backed Remain in 2016, but now wanted Mr. Johnson to get Brexit done.
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The fur on their paws conceals appendages so similar to our own that meanspirited pranksters will occasionally leave a skinned bear paw in public to startle people who confuse them with human hands.
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The vocal arrangements on Reputation startle, especially when she sings over herself ("New Year's Day") or whispers a chorus you'd expect her to belt ("Dress"); the resulting hushed sense of intimacy is unexpectedly moving.
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In fact, most people experience stress reactions such as heightened anxiety, numbness, trouble concentrating, exaggerated startle response, and even physical symptoms like headaches or nausea following an event when they feared for their lives.
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The plan from Warren, a front-runner in the 2020 presidential race, may startle some workers with employer-based health insurance, some of whom have selected more pricey insurance plans with lavish health benefits.
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The elaborate costumes and detailed environments are all intended to startle in a safe setting, and that manufactured unease, detached from the strobe lights and pounding music, still creeps through the photographs in Haunt.
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Trump's seeking out the favor of Erdogan, like his shameless courting of Putin, should startle Republicans out of their favorite recurring fantasy: that Trump will go "mainstream" and support democratic norms in America and elsewhere.
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"The only way to effectively deal with the physical and mental reactions of 'startle effect' is to have previously been exposed to it," said Captain Larry Rooney, president of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations.
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Perhaps that would explain its intermittent harmonic weirdness — occasional but noticeable chordal juxtapositions that startle, jarringly unexpected notes that likely would have been corrected by a living, breathing human editor, had one been paying attention.
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An "unanticipated landing," however, typically results in a startle response, in which muscles tense and release in a random, uncoordinated way; think of how your body jerks when you step into a pothole you didn't see.
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But while Coco brings a lot of sweetness and light with it (and, undoubtedly, a lot of happy tears), not one story beat includes something to startle the adults in the audience into realizing something new.
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In a year when many voters flocked to the candidate they hoped could startle Washington into submission, Mr. Cruz galvanized millions of supporters drawn to his more ideological conservatism, quoting founding documents and free-market texts.
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As was the case with writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch is a showcase for Amirpour's fearless aesthetic choices and willingness to startle her audience.
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Since he said nothing, I grabbed two glasses, picked up the bottle, and began, inch by inch, to back away from him, around the table—very slowly, doing nothing to startle him—and into the passage.
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When he throws the occasional right hand amid his jabs he can startle the finest boxers in the world, but when he starts standing still to throw a third and fourth, Khan becomes a lot more vulnerable.
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Why it matters: ECB president Mario Draghi is painfully aware that ultra-loose monetary policy — like the deposit rate of -0.4%, which still has the power to startle — has done little to spark inflation in the eurozone.
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In her subsequent research paper, McGraw assumed that the infants' more generalized startle response was not a specific response to pain, and concluded that babies don't perceive pain—at least not in the way that adults do.
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Candice Lin and Patrick Staff's smoke machine will pump testosterone-lowering, plant-based tinctures into the museum lobby in their piece "Hormonal Fog" — sure to both delight and startle viewers when they learn what they are breathing.
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I always expect that flipping the switch will also silence game or YouTube audio, which is not the case, and then I startle my cats with an outburst of sound from some random video someone sends me. Annoying.
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If that was not enough to startle sports fans, in recent weeks a rash of withdrawals and substitutions from major competitions has wreaked havoc on Russian sports, throwing into question the lineups for volleyball and even curling teams.
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At 118 decibels, Big Ben is so loud (over the human pain threshold and louder than a jet taking off) that it might at the least startle people working at heights and could possibly damage their hearing permanently.
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PILOT WORKLOAD A startle or surprise in the cockpit can endanger a pilot's ability to maintain control of the aircraft and was said to play a role in earlier air crashes like Air France flight 447 in 2009.
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That is when Ben Olsen, an Australian entrepreneur, hopes to introduce Thim, a gadget you wear on your finger that uses sound to startle you awake every three minutes for an hour, just before you go to sleep.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers have no reason to change U.S. interest rates anytime soon but will startle global markets by resuming rate hikes rather than pivoting to cuts, according to a leading Wall Street money manager.
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Ruiz had skipped the crosstown bus in favor of a taxi — "These bugs look pretty cool," she thought, "and I don't want to startle anyone" — but rush hour traffic, of course, is Manhattan's most frightening Halloween scare of all.
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All it takes to really startle an audience is a combination of unsettling music, a protagonist or avatar creeping up on something they probably shouldn't approach, and a big blare of sound and something moving rapidly at the screen.
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Also smart: Hike in groups of three or more (on the very rare instances when bears attack, the victims are typically solo or in a pair), and make plenty of noise as you move, so you don't startle them.
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" Some of Grant's sentences still startle with their compressed poetry: "He had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought.
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He was also mischievous: He often lied about his age, once told a journalist that his mother was a Swedish model, and liked to hide from his staff members and then startle them by jumping out with a whistle.
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I wonder, if I had the opportunity to look on my dead friends one last time—if I could see them as they were in the end, as pale bodies—whether that might startle me into something like closure.
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Mr. Burningham liked to mix line drawings and ink washes in small scenes, but he would often also throw in — several times in each book — a larger, more arresting painting to startle and captivate his 7-and-under readers.
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And then, months later—when I began to startle every time I heard something fall to the ground with a similar thud as the old man's body had—I brought my jumpy ass back to therapy and talked about what happened.
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With his voice at a stage whisper—so as not to startle his neighbors—Álex speaks about the marginality and discomfort he felt in his feminine body, and the enormous relief of seeing himself in the way he had always imagined.
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All the pieces fit together—the travelling feels expansive, not diffuse—and, as Drury's script journeys along, it draws connections between the caregiving dynamic and white fragility, imperiousness, and terrorism in America which startle us with the force of their truth.
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Of the four artists on view, Leah Edelman-Brier's pieces do the quickest work to startle, in large part, perhaps, because it is so unusual and unsettling in our culture to see the kind of body that Edelman-Brier portrays.
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" But every once in a while, according to her interview and court documents, he would startle her with an inappropriate question or comment, asking about the quality of her sex life, or saying, "Your boyfriend is so lucky to have you.
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Before Stonewall, though, authors including Brown and Gorey, like Lobel later, had to find a way to express their own vulnerabilities and their quest for belonging in terms that would not startle the horses or set the pedophile canard a-quacking.
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In the judgment of the zoo's experts, the gorilla was threatening a 4-year-old human child, a tranquilizer dart would startle him and put the child in more danger, and killing the ape was the only way to save a human life.
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The style of his coronation may surprise everybody as much as the peroration of Archbishop Curry, drawing on Martin Luther King and the French mystic and scientist Teilhard de Chardin, seemed to startle the bigwigs who had gathered for last weekend's wedding.
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Split into five chapters, with each presenting a different ghoulish figure to sprint away from, Little Nightmares opens strong, as you're presented with a spider-like figure with unsettlingly long arms, completely wrapped in bandages, who wails uncontrollably when you startle him.
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"I picked him up just to see if a startle reflex would kick in, which it usually would, but his head was kind of cocked to the side and his arms and legs were really limp and he wouldn't move," Bongard said.
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Paul M. Wright Boston To the Editor: I don't want to startle Elisabeth Egan so much that she swoons, but someone needs to break it to her that beach reads (July 14) don't have to be about places east of the Mississippi.
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Amis will sometimes, in his own quest to innovate and startle, take things to a point where the descriptive phrases or metaphors are so vivid that they reduce the significance of what they're describing: the vehicle crushes the tenor, and brilliance blinds one to aptness.
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The team arrives on shore without detection, six black, wraith-like figures invisible on the moonless coast as they move silently inland, the only sound the scurrying crabs they startle as they cross the beach toward a top-secret target we'll never read about.
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When the first cars came out there was a law in the books that you had to have somebody walk in front of your car with a red flag so that you wouldn't startle the horses, which somewhat undercuts, again, the value of the car.
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I could be taking my mistrust of Camille's subjectivity too far, but what if Alice is also a figment of her imagination, like the woman in white and the woman in red who startle her in the street at the end of the episode?
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"Whilst the headline figures may do little to startle the Bank of England just yet, this will be a stark warning for the possibility of further trouble ahead for Carney and Co," wrote Anthony Kurukgy, a sales trader at Foenix Partners, in a note to clients.
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Willy Chavarria, conversely, is a designer determined to startle and move, to import not only elements of his personal narrative (he identifies himself as a Chicano from California's agricultural San Joaquin Valley, where his family worked as harvesters) into his work, but also his current emotional state.
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If an experience with wildlife is what you're after (even if you're not in search of dinner), then a camouflage suit is probably a good idea, simply because you won't startle as many creatures as quickly as you would with a black suit, or one of any color, really.
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Nonlethal stun grenades are tossed into the room to startle and disorient two suspected drug dealers who are quickly taken into custody Lt. Brian O'Keefe, a spokesman for Manchester Police, says the department is conducting more quick and aggressive operations such as these that target low-level street dealers.
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Dr. Harvey Karp, the renowned professional behind Happiest Baby on the Block, sells products on his website that support his sleeping precepts, from tight swaddling sacks to constrain the baby's startle reflex to a $1,300 bassinet, the Snoo, that safely rocks and soothes baby for better nighttime sleep.
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John Oliver's deep dive on India's prime minister is a real eye-opener Watch a quake startle a swarm of deep sea creatures Transformers head to Netflix in 'War for Cybertron' anime trilogy Trevor Noah rants gleefully for 3 minutes about how much he hates the 'Happy Birthday' song
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John Oliver's deep dive on India's prime minister is a real eye-opener Watch a quake startle a swarm of deep sea creatures Please watch this dog gaze at its forbidden lover, a blueberry Trevor Noah rants gleefully for 3 minutes about how much he hates the 'Happy Birthday' song
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What if, he wondered, it's not the concussion itself that's to blame but impaired cognitive functioning that makes the brain too slow to react when something unexpected happens—the ball takes a deflection, the player you're guarding throws a sick shoulder fake, that sort of thing—resulting in an awkward startle response?
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So if you have a flair for nail art and no plans for Halloween night aside from opening the front door every time a trick-or-treater knocks, this might be all you need to get in on the Halloween spirit and startle the neighborhood children without even changing out of your pajamas.
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The show's animal trainer, Lydia DesRoche, sought rescue puppies, but finding dogs with the right look, personality and availability that way proved difficult, so she has often turned to carefully chosen breeders, looking for dogs who seemed neither too shy nor too boisterous, and who wouldn't startle at applause or other loud show noises.
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Sufferers often have flashbacks of the event, nightmares, angry outbursts, emotional numbness, feelings of isolation, insomnia, exaggerated startle responses, and hypervigilance—a heightened state of sensitivity in which the body and mind are constantly scanning the environment for any potential threat—hence my father's insistence on the "good booth" at restaurants and the trunk full of survival gear.
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" Courtney Butler, assistant vice president of hospice at Amedisys, a Baton Rouge-based company that is one of the nation's largest hospice providers, said it takes a special set of communication skills to work with the many vets who have P.T.S.D. "You need to be careful in how you approach them so you don't startle them.
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The sea lion looked amazed and delighted — at least, that's how it looked to me, looking at my sister — and at that moment, the thing I wanted most in the world was to learn how to hold my breath and dive deep long enough so that I might also startle and amaze someone, or something, like a sea lion.
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The news that Southern white politicians wore blackface in their college yearbooks does not particularly faze or startle black people -- according to a recent Washington Post poll, nearly 60% of African-Americans didn't think Northam should resign -- because much of black people's experience has been connected to racially charged events: police brutality, lynching, segregation, Jim Crow, civil rights movement, the birther movement, etc.
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" The latter certainly proves true when reading a report from the New York Times in 1858 which lamented that "an average of three deaths per week from crinolines in conflagration ought to startle the most thoughtless of the privileged sex; and to make them, at least, extraordinarily careful in their movements and behavior, if it fails... to deter them from adopting a fashion so fraught with peril.
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I remembered the fear I had felt the first time I spoke them to him, weeks before, when they had had all their force; I had been terrified, really, not so much that they wouldn't be answered (they weren't, it would be days before he repeated them) as that they would scare him away, that he would startle like the wild thing I sometimes felt he was.
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Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, told PBS that the bill, as first introduced in 2015, "is very radical, and would startle and scare middle-of-the-road Republicans": Olson argued that the law, as it was originally written, would protect people like Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who grabbed headlines in 2015 when she denied a marriage license to a same-sex couple.
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I find myself calmly standing sentry there, part-clad in my mail of moonlight, and doing so in a state of such optical and auditory supervigilance that I perceive, with no trace of a startle reflex, the movements not only of the forest creatures as they hop and scamper and flit but even, through the blackened chaparral, the distant silhouette of a person who stands at a window on San Francisco.
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We have two dogs, though, and chickens, and we have let our trees grow full and mighty, to block out the concrete structures pressing in on us, and high on one tall tree in our back lawn, far above the treehouse wrapped around lower branches near its base, floats a nest that belongs to a pair of birds of prey that my children call hawks but are in actuality black kites: brown with light and dark markings the color of parched earth and damp soil, patterns like scale armor on their breasts, powerful, hooked beaks and wingspans wide enough to startle, almost equal to the outstretched arms of a man.
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