Sentence examples for aiming to shock from inspiring English sources
"It's not aiming to shock people.
Fashion ads have a long tradition of aiming to shock, of course.
With declarations like "Is there, for human beings, any other source of pleasure than that of obscenity?" one feels more in the company of a schoolgirl aiming to shock than of Simone de Beauvoir's heir.
Four years ago Beijing had produced a night aiming to shock and awe the watching world with an unforgettable display of pyrotechnics and ostentatious expense.
They talk about how our "streetwise teen-zine finally grew up," and how, with our online TV network VBS, we're "aiming to shock in a different way".
He does not aim to shock, or to campaign through legislation.
He aims "to shock the viewer with this surprising bubblegum palette, and provoke questions about how we tend to see, and don't see, this conflict".
But though his best performances have a loopy, anarchic grace, this movie, which opens in Manhattan and Los Angeles today, is earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock.
Do you aim to shock? A. When I first started writing, I didn't think there was anything shocking about my material.
If Kramer aimed to shock the elites into demanding change, "An Early Frost," which was shown on NBC in November 1985, a few months after "The Normal Heart" opened in New York, had an entirely different aim -- and audience.
With its rapping, heroin-smoking, angry-young-man hero, a film by the Bengali director Q (the title's printable translation is "Loser") thumbs its nose at convention and aims to shock.
