Sentence examples for lacking in shock from inspiring English sources
Music also panned the lyrics for "almost totally lacking in shock value, humour or insight", but praised the production, writing that "musically, this is probably the greatest major label hip-hop album of recent years – a near faultless succession of hi-tech beats and ominously catchy hooks".
In the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, I had noticed that all the photography, however marginal and inevitably however incomplete, had a shock and impact lacking in the rather contrived and uninteresting art.
On the contrary: after one looks at renaissance and baroque paintings, their art comes as a shock - so lacking in tonal subtlety, so vulgarly hard and bright.
But Sterling insists it still offers the "shock of the new" that is so lacking in contemporary culture.
This year's Women's March in San Francisco lacked the shock and fury of the post-inaugural mass action, but was more purposeful and directed.
The pRA plasmid lacks heat shock protein-encoding genes found in other rickettsial plasmids.
'We are all still in shock and lack the language to cope with our realities,' says Talk's editor-in-chief, Tina Brown.
Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG, said: European markets remain in shock from the lack of a result in the Italian election.
Yes, it is a fact that there are more male choreographers at the top in ballet, sadly in contemporary dance too, and I was recently in shock over the lack of female writers and theatre directors writing and directing work, most noticeably in the main theatrical institutions.
When Danny is shot by the police because "I guess anything can be a gun if the darkness / surrounding it is hungry enough," the 'I guess' shows the narrator's lack of shock in retrospect, and the question soon after of "and isn't that what we've always been fed?" brings the scenario forward as one that is not strange or unsettling in the way that it should be.
