The phrase "a shocking conclusion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an unexpected or surprising outcome or result in a narrative, analysis, or argument.
Example: "After reviewing all the evidence, the researchers arrived at a shocking conclusion that contradicted previous theories."
Alternatives: "an astonishing result" or "a startling finding."
The plot and the characters followed an absorbing story arc through ten episodes, building to a shocking conclusion.
One recipient of his e-mail message, however, a graduate-school colleague, looked at the photograph of Dr. Ivins and leapt to a shocking conclusion.
It was a shocking conclusion to a fight that De La Hoya (31-1) seemed to control from start to finish.
A major new study of the world's oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world.
The wounds remain fresh from last spring's opening round, when Toronto coughed up a 4-3 second-period leandand lost, 7-4, in a shocking conclusion to Game 7.
After 12 years riding a bike in London, I recently came to a shocking conclusion: what scares me the most as a cyclist is not the cars, not the lorries and not even the taxi passengers who unexpectedly wrench their door open in front of you – but other cyclists.
Andrew McCarthy, who played Clay in the 1987 Less Than Zero film, described the novel as "an exciting, shocking conclusion... a surprising one".
Two stories stand out: the title story, "Leaving The Sea", most of which is one self-justifying and self-cancelling sentence; and the final piece, "The Moors", which begins with a man worrying about following a pretty female colleague to the coffee stand, but explodes into every form of abject lust, self-disgust, reasonable paranoia and thwarted anger, and offers a genuinely shocking conclusion.
It is just a shocking decision".
Just half a decade ago, astronomers came to the shocking conclusion that the universe is being pulled apart by a mysterious force called dark energy.
Beeli comes to the shocking conclusion that Obama has a "preference of Islam over Christianity," adding that "his fealty toward Islam and multiculturalism far exceed his fealty toward Christianity.
