Sentence examples for almost shock from inspiring English sources

Bourne and his brilliant designer, Lez Brotherson, didn't have anything like that, so, as Bourne told the Washington Post, "We decided to do something almost the opposite, go stark, and almost shock the audience with the set".

They almost shock us by their presence because we are quite slow to spot them, and when we do so they are so arrestingly, so Brobdingnagianly tiny, and by being so they seem to embolden and widen and aggrandise the rest of this slithery off-cut of estuarial terrain, which seems to slither and shift into ever more indefinite and undefinably variable shapes even as we stare down at it in wonderment.

"I found that almost shocking.

I was almost shocked to learn about it".

We almost shocked Spain in 2012 after all.

When a summer's day suddenly bursts onto the page, the effect is almost shocking.

The '08 Poruzots thrusts forward like a rocket, with a stony intensity that is almost shocking.

It almost shocks me to remember I once had that impulse.

There was "When Doves Cry," so smart and electrifying it was almost shocking.

In this context the sudden bursts of fortissimo exuberance were almost shocking.

I'm almost shocked to see how different the picture is.