Sentence examples for aesthetic shock from inspiring English sources

One landscape, in particular, gave me the strongest aesthetic shock I had ever received from a picture.

To come upon Isabella walking down a street is to experience a little world-deforming jolt of aesthetic shock… Isabella is famous for her eye.

There is a moment of aesthetic shock in Shore's unaesthetic photographs that comes when we say to ourselves, Oh, dear, it does look like that.

That's because it was an aesthetic shock when the word was used, about sixty years ago, by a group of French critics at the newly founded Paris-based journal Cahiers du Cinêma.

This confrontation produces a real aesthetic shock: it is unusual to find in the same place, almost face to face, these dramatic forms, often very old, certainly infinitely complex and remarkably beautiful.

Maryland uniforms #Ewwwww!" But while the helmets were an aesthetic shock to the mainstream sports world, a roller derby team from Baltimore was taken aback for a different reason: they had been wearing nearly identical helmets for the past three years.

New York is itself a sacrificial facade: it can absorb and even benefit from aesthetic shocks.

I'm sure the aesthetic will not shock the ears of a 9-year-old boy; it could rock the ears of a 9-year-old boy in all of us.

Archaos: the name itself promised anarchy, shock, a rock'n'roll aesthetic, all of which it gleefully delivered to an enthusiastic public eager to embrace something new and edgy.

"I had to hide it, partly on the inside of the dress, because to include too much of the trimming would have been a shock to the whole aesthetic," she said.

The shocks - such as they are - are mostly aesthetic, rather than to do with a real shock of human recognition.