Sentence examples for are especially shocking from inspiring English sources

The grand juries' decisions to not indict are especially shocking when you consider how unusual they were.

These incidents are especially shocking to New Yorkers, who pride themselves in the diversity of a city whose harbor is watched over by the Statue of Liberty.

For Ramirez, such posts are especially shocking coming from people who were friendly to to him, the son of immigrants, in person.

These acts are especially shocking when set against the backdrop of a population in dire need of assistance and the apology issued last week by the Government of Sudan for the Akuem incident.

The geographic divide is especially shocking.

None of this is especially shocking.

The banning of music in a nation famous worldwide for so many of its astonishing artists was especially shocking.

Daniel Bekele, its Africa director, said: "No one should be stoned to death and imposing this punishment on someone who may be a child is especially shocking.

Even in a country as accustomed to gun violence as America, the murder of 26 people, including 20 children, in a Newtown, Connecticut, school last month was especially shocking.

Chile is usually regarded as one of the most orderly and stable countries in South America, so the images that have come out of the capital, Santiago, in recent days have been especially shocking.

"I had the perception that Japan is a peaceful country, and to think that these happened here and not in another country is especially shocking.