A statement made minutes, hours or even days after the startling event can be excited utterances, so long as the declarant is still under the stress of the startling event.

However, the more time that elapses between a startling event and the declarant's statement, the more the statements will be looked upon with disfavor.

Helen had had the feeling that something was wrong when Cora had made her startling statement, but took some days and a timely conversation among the young cousins to realize precisely what it was.

On September 1, 1996, Matthews's story broke, leading with the startling statement: " Scientists in Finland are about to reveal details of the world's first antigravity device.

" Ruppelt commented, " Two years ago I would have been amazed to hear a group of reputable scientists make such a startling statement.

An excited utterance, in the law of evidence, is a statement made by a person in response to a startling or shocking event or condition.

The declarant's reflective powers must be stilled, meaning that, while making the statement, the declarant would not have had a chance to reflect upon the startling event, fabricate a purposefully false statement, and then say it.

Time lapse between the startling event and the statement is a factor for both admissibility and weight.

* a shocking or startling statement

Irish Catholics serving as Cabinet Ministers was hitherto unknown in the British Empire and the Melbourne-based Protestants ' were not prepared to counternance so startling a novelty.

And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe, Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration, trembling lest his authorship become known, and at the same time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer.

The omission of the name of a mother with the highborn status of Nest would be startling, if it were true.

A startling 43 % of studies that support the Dodo bird verdict are not sufficiently sensitive to detect differences in therapies even if they did exist.

When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own ; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts.

The Catholic Encyclopedia calls the idea that God must pay the Devil a ransom " certainly startling, if not revolting.

Vestiges was published in New York, and in response the April 1845 issue of the North American Review published a long review, the start of which was scathing about its reliance on speculative scientific theories: " The writer has taken up almost every questionable fact and startling hypothesis, that have been promulgated by proficients and pretenders in science during the present century ... The nebular hypothesis ... spontaneous generation ... the Macleay system, dogs playing dominoes, negroes born of white parents, materialism, phrenology ,-he adopts them all, and makes them play an important part in his own magnificent theory, to the exclusion, to a great degree, of the well-accredited facts and established doctrines of science.

... it is startling to read the words of Werner Best, one of the top officials in Hitler ’ s secret police, the Gestapo, explaining in 1935 why the Nazi regime would not allow concentration camp prisoners like Hans Litten to have lawyers: “ The forms of procedure of the justice system are, under present conditions, absolutely inadequate for the struggle against enemies of the state .” It is also startling to read that some of the tortures inflicted on Litten and his fellow prisoners – mock shootings, “ stress positions ” – were the same as those used at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo.

No more startling contrast to a system of sullen satellites could be imagined.

( This " advance green ," or flashing green can be somewhat startling and confusing to drivers not familiar with this system.

* Floating Worlds ( 1975 ) -- Anarchist Paula Mendoza climbs from unemployed obscurity to become a diplomat trying to keep the peace ( with startling and unconventional methods ) between Earth, the Mars colonists, and the mutant Styths from the outer planets of the solar system.

A number of provisions aim to avoid making the people weak: the substitution of a universal educational system for men and women instead of debilitating music, poetry and theatre — a startling departure from Greek society.

As they venture inside and below the church, they make a startling discovery: the abbey is built over the entrance to a vast subterranean cave system.

In homely terms whose timeliness is startling today, he thus declared his own right to secede.

In this work, his use of non-color is startling and skillful.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

Skeptics may deny the more startling phenomena of dreams as things they have never personally observed, but failure to wonder at their basic mystery is outright avoidance of routine evidence.

* Dave Holden: Starting off bed-ridden after his attack by the replicant Leon, Holden is rescued by Roy who in turn leads him to some startling revelations.

But, given all the attention paid to deteriorating security, the startling fact is that Iraq is growing at all.

The monster — the outsider — is driven from his scene of domestic pleasure by two gun-toting rubes who happen upon this startling alliance and quickly, instinctively, proceed to destroy it.

The effect is a startling realism and three-dimensional quality.

Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself.

Carlyle notes: " There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and Seneca .... We think that this cannot be better exemplified than with regard to the theory of the equality of human nature.

Revisionists understand Plato ’ s dictum that, “ those who tell the stories also hold the power .” Sometimes the purpose is as innocent as wanting to sell more books or attract attention with a startling headline.

In startling form, he once spoke in support of a strong executive, at least in wartime, saying about President Wilson, " He is already ... our partial dictator.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.

A startling example can be found with theologian John Scot Erigena ( 9th century ): " We do not know what God is.

What is startling is the tendency of prime numbers to lie on some diagonals more than others.

A saccade is also an involuntary consequence of turning of the head to one side or another in response to a startling noise off to the side, or a sudden motion detected in the visual periphery ( no reference ).

As is true in many literary first-person narratives, McElwee's approach in Sherman's March is simultaneously very revealing and somewhat mysterious: the candidness of the scenes is frequently startling, but the more the film — and McElwee-as-narrator — reveals, the more we realize that there are many aspects of the relationships he is recording that we are not privy to.

While his writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity.