Sentence examples for brutal shocks from inspiring English sources
Absorbed the brutal shocks of Thatcherism.
Some beachgoers even ventured into the water, whose temperature in the 50s administered a brutal shock.
Today, the strategic debate about Latin America's future has been diverted by the need to respond to a brutal shock.
But Weir and Williamson's trading of emotional complexity for brutal shock hardly seems out of place given the subject matter.
So of course it comes as a brutal shock when women of a certain age, no matter how youthful looking, find biology has betrayed their expectations.
This is a brutal shock to the system, for sure, and I feel for all of my publishing friends and colleagues who have lost their jobs.
So when, in 2002, after seven years as C.E.O., Drexler was finally fired — and the company, to this day, maintains that he was not — it came as a brutal shock.
Such charm can be followed by a brutal shock, as in "Penny Dreadful", in which a demonic murderer reflects on his night's work, looking down on the sleeping town as he "hug[s] the weathercock".
The story engages us so deeply in this recognizably complex marriage that it comes as a brutal shock to lose Arthur and Miriam at the close, even though we begin with Arthur's premonitory dream of their demise.
My version of the filing cabinets that lined his Lower East Side apartment is an electronic folder that contains 13 gigabytes of data on how people on the autism spectrum have been systematically mistreated by the same psychiatric establishment that subjected Allen's schizophrenic mother, Naomi, to brutal shock treatments and devastating drugs, as chronicled in his epic poem "Kaddish".
