Sentence examples for experienced a shock from inspiring English sources

Even a show as groundbreaking as MTV's "The Real World," responsible for showing some of reality television's earliest images of queer life in America, experienced a shock a decade ago when a black man came out in a season where it had already cast a gay roommate (it was the first time the show featured two gay men in its cast).

On Thursday, Boeheim very nearly experienced a shock of a different kind.

Whatever the answer to the question about vanishing, Ceil must have experienced a shock of recognition at something in the film.

Dudley said the industry had experienced a "shock to the system" and that the North Sea was a "problem child in terms of efficiency".

The 31-year-old, who had been expected to double up over the two distances, experienced a shock defeat when Simeon Williamson stormed to victory as Europe's fastest man this season in 10.05sec.

I experienced a shock of recognition one day, when I looked out my window and saw a family strolling down the street where few ever walked, except in pursuit of heroin in an unmistakably Bosnian formation: the eldest member leading the way at a slow, aimless pace, all of them slouching, hands on their butts, as though burdened by a weighty load of worries.

Reading his illuminations of the organisational through the personal is to experience a shock of recognition.

Even more unfortunately, in humans the same mechanism can lead to injury, complications and death when patients are restrained in hospitals; and possibly also when infants experience a shock while lying on their stomachs, which is considered a likely cause of sudden infant death syndrome.

For instance, if you closed your eyes and I surprised you with an ice cube down your back, you'd experience a shock of cold.

As their feet collide with the ground--in this case, a running track--barefoot runners experience a shock of only 0.5 to 0.7 times their body weight, whereas shod heel strikers experience 1.5 to two times their body weight--a threefold to fourfold difference.

Those familiar with the work of the painter Adolf Gottlieb might experience a shock of recognition as an explosive red ball of blood appears against a stark white background.