Sentence examples for a shocking spectacle from inspiring English sources

I'd say it was a shocking spectacle, except that it's hard to get shocked these days.

But what we saw was a shocking spectacle.

It's a shocking spectacle that could be stopped with one merciful injection.

The Huskies (36-1) made a shocking spectacle out of the anticipated rubber match, capping a near-perfect season with a flawless performance.

Civilians watched in horror as newsreel footage of the camp at Belsen appeared on the screen at their local cinema, turning an evening at the pictures into a shocking spectacle that would give them nightmares for weeks.

"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".

There are historical figures in this movie: Meryl Streep contributes a commanding if faintly Maggie-ish cameo as Pankhurst and Natalie Press plays Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette who ran in front of George V's horse at the 1913 Derby, and created the pictures and headlines that astonished the nation: an unthinkably shocking spectacle of fatal self-harm, mingled with conceptual lèse-majesté.

But why is "shocking" spectacle a flaw that leads to general disapprobation?

The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line "white coats for black lives". The images were all over social media: students of all colors, dressed in lab coats, lying prone against eerily clean tile floors, stethoscopes in pockets, hands and around necks.

The border police, though, clearly weren't impressed they looked horrified as they considered the unfolded duvets in the hallway, the curry splattered over the walls, the shocking spectacle of paper towels, in packets, stored in a broken cubbyhole above the stairs.

The border police weren't impressed though, as they considered with horror the unfolded duvets in the hallway, the curry splattered over the walls, the shocking spectacle of kitchen rolls, in packets, stored in a broken cubby-hole above the stairs.