Sentence examples for a violent shock from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to give a violent shock to the Italian system," he told me.

The intended result is a violent shock wave through the opposite side of the surface that has been struck.

Renzi clearly feels that it is important to give the Italian system a violent shock to stimulate employment.

Geologists looking at rocks from the end of the Cretaceous in Montana found tiny mineral grains that seemed to have suffered a violent shock.

It was that which made it such a violent shock when the letter came saying that a room was now available.

The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, on December 7 , 1941 was a violent shock, but only in the nature and extent of the destruction: by then, most Americans had come to believe that the country would be dragged into the global war with Fascism one way or another, though their eyes were fixed on Europe, not the Pacific.

Studying the labels puts me in mind of a passage in Virginia Woolf's memoirs, when she gets a "sudden violent shock": I was looking at the flower bed by the front door; "That is the whole", I said.

Many residents who had experienced previous earthquakes described this episode as a sudden, violent shock, compared with the fluid rolling action of other quakes.

There was no violent shock, only a settled change, and the realization — a surprise — that you couldn't undo the knowledge of the thing with the same calm ease with which you had taken it in.

Boslough determined that the bolide actually blew up in the air, creating a violent downward shock wave.

In 1953, a catastrophic amount of EA 1298 — a version of mescaline — had been injected into a patient named Harold Blauer, who had a violent reaction: shock, coma, and then death.