Sentence examples for its shock from inspiring English sources

But has the prize still got it, or has it lost its shock value?

P3 After Radio 4 airs the F-word in daytime drama, has it lost its shock factor?

The story may cry out to be told, but part of what makes it publishable is its shock value.

"Looking at it again, it's memorable only in its shock value – I don't think anyone would attempt that these days.

"The X-Files" became a sleeper hit, accumulating its audience and escalating in its shock effects as it went along.

However, endless local am-dram productions of Cabaret have worn away its shock value, rendering it rather cosy.

(And one so insistent in its shock value that it may inspire the reader to deposit the book under the wheels of a minivan).

The Surrealists exploited its shock value, and it was used as a vehicle for blasphemy in isolated instances.

That's what Hatred got wrong it was so grimly bleak that it was completely boring, its shock value receding to meaninglessness eight kills deep.

This dish transcends its shock value; I'd order it again.

Private Ryan shoves its commitment to detail and realism down our throats; its shock and awe is that it is "so, like, for real".