Eliezer Yudkowsky

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

American Writer

Mila Kunis

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

American Actress

Tyler Henry

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling you this! Because if someone is a medium and they are legit, they're not going to be shocked by skepticism, they're not going to be taken aback or intimidated by skepticism.

American Entertainer

David Baddiel

I tend to feed the trolls because it gives me material for my work. I'm sometimes taken aback by the racist and antisemitic abuse I get, but most of the time I'll get angry for a second, and then remind myself, 'This is material.' The trick is not to be too reactive.

English Comedian

Riya Sen

On the sets, Bharathirajaa would treat me like an adult even though I was just 16. One day, he slapped me. I was taken aback. I cried and went back to school. Then, he called me and said, 'You are like my daughter. Come back.

Indian Actress

Sean Baker

Somebody who doesn't understand my directing style could be pretty taken aback by it if I start going off the schedule and focusing on something because I'm inspired in the moment.

American Director

Summer Altice

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

American Model

Sam Smith

I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

English Musician

Amber Rudd

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

British Politician

Alvaro Morata

When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.

Spanish Athlete

Use 'aback' when something happens that is so surprising it makes someone temporarily confused or bewildered.

Unexpected Events

Conveys a strong emotional response, usually related to surprise or shock, not just a casual reaction.

Emotional Impact

Often implies a negative connotation, suggesting the surprise is not pleasant or welcome.

Negative Surprise

 Well, around the same time in residency that this new mother lost her life, I became a mother myself. And even with all of my background and training in the field, I was taken aback by how little attention was paid to delivering high-quality maternal health care. And I thought about what that meant, not just for myself

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 we saw Ethan had standing in front of this massive elephant had both hands placed like this his eyes shut right up close to the elephant on the elephant's forehead um and we were just all sort of taken aback I thought this thing could crush but he felt such a connection with that elephant and was so at peace and I

Travelers of the Year PIPE...

 she stood up to Tandy and she really did fight for her her life so to speak and she was incredibly good at defending ourselves she really did defend herself very well and I was surprised I mean in fact she got a few blows to Tandy Tandy ended up with a few claw marks on her face I think tiny was taken aback

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 she was malnourished, she had never gone to school and she had spent most of her life confined to this small, dark room. When we left, I asked the social worker what the case plan was, and she said, "Well first, we have to get her a birth certificate." I was a little taken aback.

What if a single human...

 But when you look at them, they're not motivated by what they read in their holy book. It's their brutality that makes them read these things into the scripture. Recently, a prominent imam told me a story that really took me aback. He said that a girl came to him

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 to write a piece about Deaf culture. And I was rather taken aback. I had thought of deafness entirely as an those poor people, they couldn't hear, they lacked hearing, and what could we do for them? And then I went out into the Deaf world. I went to Deaf clubs.

Love, no matter what PIPE...

 the world so we've got to have an energy system that provides to the people and for the economy we got here in the old part of town and they've looked around and he was a little taken aback by the electricity wires or tangled up honest to god what

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 so our fear receptors often will be going off in advance of any of our cognitive usage around verbal and words and cues of language. So as we see these fear moments, we of course are taken aback.

"Stumbling towards...

 I should try to be more agreeable to help give others a win. If I did have feedback, she advised that I send it over email instead. Honestly, I was taken aback.

The myth of bringing...

 took down a topi a fully grown adult topi I was quite taken aback the rest of them came in to help afterwards but the entire process from knocking the topes

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