Sentence examples for abject shock from inspiring English sources

In this context, it's worth highlighting a difference between abject shock tactics and smart provocation.

By contrast, Mr. Summers's detractors have expressed abject shock that he might be considered for the position.

"The No. 2 train is canceled," said Mr. Streiter, 23, a yoga student, eliciting expressions of abject shock.

On a holy day of joy and celebration, an influential sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn fell into a state of abject shock yesterday, their close-knit community stunned by news that their spiritual leader's granddaughter and her 5-month-old daughter had died in a predawn fire.

I recall the absolute shock I felt witnessing this lonely, abject figure".

As shock and awe in face of the abject showing gave way to anger, smashing up things seemed like a better option than following the lead of the team and simply do nothing.

Importantly, for many poor people, their only asset (for economic productivity) is their body and the economic shock associated with illness can drive them into abject poverty [ 7].

But if he is still at the Treasury when Carney arrives next July – and a Macmillan-style prime minister would by now have given him the sack for his abject failure to "deliver" – Osborne may be in for a nasty shock.