Sentence examples for brilliant shock from inspiring English sources

Johnston's typeface, based on ancient Roman (upper case) and early Italian Renaissance (lower case) precedent, was a brilliant shock to type designers, letterers, printers and graphic artists worldwide.

Although Barker has not in recent years come close to matching the brilliant shocks of the stories collected in his "Books of Blood" in the 1980s, many horror readers still approach his work with some degree of anticipation, a hope that he'll find his macabre touch again.

In a now legendary 1980 BBC radio broadcast about modern art, the cultural historian Robert Hughes coined a brilliant phrase – "the shock of the new" – to describe the artforms that began to erupt from Europe and Russia at the end of the 19th century.

Northampton produced a brilliant display to shock Saracens and reach the Premiership final.

His Beethoven was brutal, fast, brilliant, the full shock treatment of tension and conflict.

Gaining entry was a big adrenaline rush and the film could never live up to my adolescent expectations, except for the Singin' in the Rain rape sequence which was technically brilliant but gut‑wrenchingly shocking.

"Ghastly!" "Shocking!" "Brilliant!" It's almost time... Prize time!

This is brilliant: Fellaini as shocked at being started on by Wilshere as everyone else — Daniel Harris (@DanielHarris)November 23 , 2014

Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger, on how it feels to lose the crucial sense of punctuation (and motivation) that mealtimes give you.

But I really get shocked when brilliant minds espouse that flawed reasoning," he said.

The 39-year-old, who has been doing stand-up since she was a student at N.Y.U., has become famous with the most brilliant, jaw-dropping, deliberately shocking jokes about racism, abortion and rape.