Sentence examples for increasingly shocking from inspiring English sources

Frances Lovemore, the director of the NGO, said the allegations of torture had become increasingly shocking.

International courts have always shown a remarkable lack of modesty as to what little they actually accomplish, and at a cost that is, whether they like it or not, increasingly shocking.

It was shocking for a woman to smoke on in public in 1880, nearly mandatory in 1940, and increasingly shocking in 2013 (for either gender).

Instead it can lurch with increasingly shocking dysfunctionality into Alan Yentob nursing a spritzer in a Swansea Premier Inn with a reluctant Keith Lemon.

Angry protesters have gathered every night since the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Saturday, with increasingly shocking images emerging that make a small suburb of St Louis, Missouri look more like Gaza or Cairo's Tahrir Square.

We fool only ourselves when we pretend our comfort level with violence and killing is not a major factor in these increasingly shocking acts.

He leafed through it, increasingly shocked: the entries amounted to a journal of terror.

What she can't quite see — what's happening when her eyes are fixed on the studio floor — is that Williams is making a series of increasingly shocked and dazzled expressions.

Interview in the Paris Review, 1988 "I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed".

Her appearance at the 2001 Edinburgh festival, in which she criticised elements of 21st-century feminist culture as "lazy and insidious" and claimed to be "increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture", caused uproar.

Increasingly, shocks reverberate globally thanks to interconnectivity from communications, trade, financial systems and politics -- the Arab Spring and global financial crisis are two prominent examples.