Sentence examples for dramatic shock from inspiring English sources

"This is a dramatic shock to the system," said a senior aide to Sheldon Silver, the Democratic Assembly speaker.

Mr. Ali, a large man with a dramatic shock of graying hair and mustache to match, sparred with Mr. Lévy over the legitimacy of a Jewish state.

This is just the kind of random chat you might hear at any funeral but what is noticeable is the guests' self-preoccupation and the real dramatic shock comes when, wineglass in hand, they break the fourth wall to announce the precise details of their own deaths.

His eyes darting, not unlike a Balinese dancer, eyes opened in dramatic shock one moment, closed in meditation the next. .

And despite the dramatic shocks, this complex story is wrangled into a disturbingly persuasive narrative, one that spares no justice when exposing the cruelty of the drugs world.

Dining on ourselves might seem the ultimate taboo, with the most potential for dramatic shocks.

I have a rather straightforward answer to Mr. Brooks's question: Mr. Obama is close because the recession, and its dramatic economic shock waves, were not a result of his policies; rather than ruling from the left, he has ruled from the pragmatic center.

Shock and outrage there certainly should be after the premiere, though not because of the work's dramatic impact or its emotional power.

Though it doesn't play as dramatically in the press, this slow but steady drying has been worse than the dramatic, extreme shocks that have hit the Horn.

Müller said: "What we're seeing here is dramatic and a shock to us all.

It's a scene that foreshadows Verdi and verismo, a moment of pure righteous passion, of the moral force of sacred justice — and what Mozart and Da Ponte top it with is dramatic and moral shock.