Sentence examples for great shock the from inspiring English sources

The vote for Brexit was a great shock; the morning after the vote, the disintegration of the European Union seemed practically inevitable.

The demise of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) a few months prior to its 11th birthday has not come as a great shock – the terminal condition of the regulator was clear two years ago in the report from the arm's length body review – but it is a time for a minute's silence.

While one of the book's two great shocks – the failure of a major figure to survive into the 1950s – is emotionally jolting, the other shatters the traditional reading of Atticus as a saintly widowed single father whose views on race were decades ahead of his countrymen.

But the greatest shock — the one that Nichols saves for the last beat of the play — is a shock not of death but of life.

Both performed great services for their parties while becoming widely unpopular: Portillo's loss of his supposedly safe London seat was the great shock of the 1997 election, while Mandelson, regarded by many as "a prince of darkness", was twice made to resign from the cabinet during Blair's first term of office owing to minor transgressions.

Tevye's repudiation of her is the great shock of the story, not least because it is preceded by Tevye's singing of this short, lovely song.

The defeat of the Crusader army at Ḥaṭṭīn in the Holy Land in July 1187 and the subsequent fall of Jerusalem sent a great shock through the West and inspired the Third Crusade.

So then came the first great shock of the night.

As Colm Tóibín once wrote, "As a novelist, he has a way of posing as a philosopher... all the more to fool the reader and cause great shock when the novel turns out to have a plot after all".

This was the first colonisation of an Arab country since the days of the Crusades and it came as a great shock to the Arab nation.

In a meeting with university leaders, the rector, Helen Dragas, praised Ms. Sullivan's work and acknowledged that news of the departure would be a "great shock to the institution".