Sentence examples for is less shocking from inspiring English sources

Once actors, ballet dancers, film stars and artists have performed naked, the human form is less shocking.

Now, it is less shocking.

Bale's involvement is less shocking.

(A long close-up erases any ambiguity and conjures up memories of Vincent Gallo's notorious "Brown Bunny".) But the display is less shocking for its sexual frankness than for its aesthetic crudity.

By John Cassidy October 28, 2013 The news that the National Security Agency was monitoring the telephones of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and many other foreign leaders is less shocking than the revelation that, for the first four and a half years of his Presidency, Barack Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, didn't know anything about it.

Photograph by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty The news that the National Security Agency was monitoring the telephones of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and many other foreign leaders is less shocking than the revelation that, for the first four and a half years of his Presidency, Barack Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, didn't know anything about it.

Many aspects of the non-Orthodox world — mixed-gender dancing, same-sex relationships, revealing clothing, content on the Internet — are met with disapproval, and in that context, Mr. Weiner's behavior might be less shocking.

Those who know Mr. Percoco personally are less shocked.

If we got over that superstition, we'd be less shocked at headlines.

Iraqis were less shocked this time by the abuse than by the fact that some abusers were women.

In centuries past most people would have been less shocked by the homicidal eruptions of formerly good men.