Sentence examples for are a shock from inspiring English sources
In 1960, the sociologist Edgar Morin approached Jean Rouch, who had reinvented the ethnographic documentary by filming his African subjects' self-dramatizations, about doing the same for Parisians, simply by asking them, on camera, "Are you happy?" The results are a shock.
The high-rises are a shock at first but they grow on you.
To many Europeans, now accustomed to crossing borders without even showing a passport, the car searches are a shock.
The scenes of Africans marching in chains and stocks, monitored by other Africans, are a shock and linger in your mind for days afterward.
Given the modern skin, the interiors are a shock: Raffles colonial kitsch, with folding hardwood chairs that were doubtless part of an Asian rainforest a few months back.
Its refitted branches are a shock of orange, in blazing contrast to their old, sarariman-suit blue, and feel similar to those of the most inventive American banks.
