A fleeting encounter in the woods, filmed at medium range and with only a single, shocking sound effect, delivers a more effective jolt than any number of ax-wielding maniacs.
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When tiny shapes in red and blue suddenly appear, the effect is jolting.
These footnotes have the effect of jolting readers out of the story so that they remain critically engaged.
A key change, a chorus, a sound effect, it jolts you out of your soundscape into the next chapter.
The effect is jolting, the redactions an ever-present reminder of his continuing captivity and the secrecy used to control his fate for the past 13 years.
I can't think of another movie in which the display of a graph elicited gasps of horror, but when the red lines showing the increasing rates of carbon-dioxide emissions and the corresponding rise in temperatures come on screen, the effect is jolting and chilling.
The monk and his followers shun most of the conveniences of modern life, subsisting in medieval simplicity and isolation and cultivating beliefs to match, so when outsiders drive up in a battered Ceausescu-era Dacia or a cellphone suddenly rings, the effect is jolting.
Carnival Breeze The interactive Thrill Theater makes you feel like a character in a movie, thanks to 3-D effects, surround sound, jolting chairs and other sensory surprises.
But when the jolt effect is inadvertent, it is more annoying than pleasurable and undercuts the objects on view, as well as the notion that they might be catalysts for active rather than passive viewing.
