Sentence examples for intended shock from inspiring English sources

Mr. Macron may not be so lucky with his next intended shock to the French system, a change to the country's generous unemployment compensation system, scheduled to be negotiated beginning next week.

Mr. Blair and each of his predecessors have lamented openly that the intelligence director does not have enough power to deliver the intended shock therapy to America's byzantine spying apparatus.

The link, by its blasphemy, heightened the intended shock and put Balthus on the map.

The two hours of not very original vituperation had, as Osborne intended, shocked the essentially middle-class audience.

He explained at the time that "some of the content I provided for those publications was intended to shock readers or to use humour in a shocking way rather than to provide legitimate commentary".

The killings were sadistic, gruesome, intended to shock.

His seemingly blunt delivery marks a sly, comedic style intended to shock the stay-at-homes.

The meticulous dramatization of events intended to shock strikes me as the moral equivalent of pornography.

The following morning, when the 200 participants walked into the auditorium, their reaction, as intended, was shock.

Are these leaks about the extent of Israel's concessions intended to shock so they can be reduced?

"Freeze Me," which opens today in Manhattan, is a movie with deliberately scrambled circuits, intended to shock.