Sentence examples for be shocking for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sutherland said the language can sometimes be shocking for viewers, like the talk of "breaking in" slaves who might be troublesome.

David Anderson of Oxford University, who has seen some of the documents on behalf of the Kenyan plaintiffs, said they would "clarify the last days of empire in ways that will be shocking for some people in Britain".

This abuse of state power goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be a civilised society, and it will be shocking for me if American citizens allow this to continue.

"We don't want to be shocking for the sake of it but we've found that people have an apathy towards first aid and a powerful message is proven to get people to take action," explains PR manager Sarah Jafar.

JOHN MILLER: Something that today would be shocking: for some reason they decided to hold a press conference and they invited all the press to it in and typical Instrumentation Lab fashion, they gave heavy duty technical talks to all these press guys in the back.

"Frankly, it would be shocking for a majority leader of either party in McConnell's position to rule out confirming a justice in a situation like that," said Josh Chafetz, a Cornell University law professor and expert on the nexus of Congress and the Supreme Court.

This is shocking for us all".

"It was shocking for two reasons," Spitzer told me.

"This is shocking for my parents," she says.

It was shocking for people at the time.

But while this destruction, as Isis doubtless intends, is shocking, for me it is also familiar.