Sentence examples for downright shocking from inspiring English sources

When two arrive in the same month, it's downright shocking.

And when that shy, reserved young woman spoke out against her many critics, her words were downright shocking.

The audit was quite thorough and the firm's conclusions about Mr. Hunter's financial indiscretions and fiduciary breaches are alarming, if not downright shocking.

MUCH of the lore surrounding the South American window artist who went by the name of Victor Hugo, and was the lover of Roy Halston Frowick, centers around his rather memorable ability in the 1970s to make Halston's sophisticated designs seem downright shocking.

It's downright shocking the lengths to which some humans will go for companionship.

Many will find parts of the two angriest, most explosive songs -- "... Tha Police" and "Gangsta Gangsta" downright shocking.

I can trace my interest in supermarkets as tourist attractions to time I spent in the Dominican Republic 17 years ago, when, shopping with local friends, I was downright shocked by the variety of shapes and sizes of the kitchen tool invented to smash a once-fried plantain slice before tossing it back into the oil to make a tostón.

He was downright shocked to read in the deal memo a promise that Tinseltown moneymen rarely offer outsiders: Investors would get all their money back, plus a 15% preference payment, before the flick's producers, a new studio dubbed IndieVest, ever collected pocket a dime of the box office revenue.

"Veep" actress Anna Chlumsky was downright shocked.

Downright shocked that Affleck was overlooked for his masterful directing of Argo.

Everyday I keep trying to be the best me, the healthiest me, yet sometimes I am downright shocked and insulted when my body and brain go AWOL.