Sentence examples for capacity for shock from inspiring English sources

The numbers are shocking -- assuming that we still have the capacity for shock -- and they will form the backdrop for President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON -- The numbers are shocking -- assuming that we still have the capacity for shock -- and they will form the backdrop for President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

Others retained the capacity for shock.

My years in Germany eroded my capacity for shock.

By the time he went to work for Booz Allen in the spring of 2013, Snowden was thoroughly disillusioned, yet he had not lost his capacity for shock.

If our capacity for shock has diminished, is that a sign that our sensibilities have grown more inclusive – or that they have dulled?

This prestimulated response had a better predictive capacity for subsequent septic shock than conventional laboratory values.

At the time of HAP diagnosis, a significant and clinically systemic cytokine mediated response had already been initiated and had predictive capacity for subsequent septic shock.

Well, that was a tricky one, because neither the audience nor the panel of economists discussing the issue could entirely agree which of the above options stood out for its capacity to shock — meaning, of course, that all four registered as causes for concern.

The capacity for Lehman to continue to shock after a year of books and revelations is itself a shock.

It does not seem useful to use a membrane of high porosity (high cutoff) or of high adsorption capacity for the treatment of septic shock.