Sentence examples for a thing of shock from inspiring English sources
His spell with the second new ball on the fifth day at Newlands was a thing of shock and awe, and is being hailed as one of the best of all spells not to take a wicket.
The spectre of the ceremony's past is raised: prepare yourself for the certain appearance of several online galleries featuring the Most Outrageous Moments in the Brits History, plainly a thing of eye-popping shock and revelation for anyone who didn't know that one of Chumbawamba once threw water over John Prescott and Jarvis Cocker waggled his bum at Michael Jackson.
"I would love to be able to say to you today that the roaming market is competitive, that data roaming charges approach domestic prices, that bill shocks are a thing of the past, that prices for voice and SMS roaming are not clustered around the maximum levels permitted," she said.
While the miniskirt's shock factor is a thing of the past in most Western cities, as well as cities like Tokyo or Shanghai in the East, "in much of the world, I would definitely hesitate to wear a miniskirt," she added.
Conversely, Carroll's statements to me, which I report in the piece, will provide some encouragement to the moderates and the liberals who think that the last thing Iraq needs is a dose of "shock therapy".
In a November 2013 interview with Q, Lorde expressed frustration about "certain things about music": "There are a lot of shock tactics these days.
This phenomenon can set up a rare kind of shock for a science fiction reader, the shock of things turning out to be exactly what they said on the tin.
At the black feminist meetings I attend we are angry with a lot of things, because – shock horror – we live in a world where racism, sexism and economic inequality abound.
It's a tiny thing, but shocking for its betrayal of the work's stylistic integrity.
