Sentence examples for not just shocking from inspiring English sources

The gesture was not just shocking, but illegal.

Stravinsky's "Rite" is not just shocking but also ingenious, audacious and original.

As I wrote at the time, its scenes of torture and violence were not just shocking because of their visual impact, but because they dehumanised the favela-dwellers on whom they were inflicted.

And — this is the part that is not just shocking but earthshaking, suggesting comets bouncing off the heads of dinosaurs, the Lisbon earthquake, and the storming of the Bastille — the entire supplement, created for the French edition, was published in English.

The fact that this was shocking is well, not just shocking by pathetic.

They know that the death of this Yorkshire-made MP, whose political vision stretched from her Batley and Spen constituency to Syria, has not just shocked Westminster, but left it, and much of the country, stunned.

They were made by human intelligence, because present shock's ways of targeting, pinpointing and manipulating aren't just shocking.

But they weren't just shocked.

The violence we witness today should not just shock us; it must be a call to action for us all.

"What we tried to do though with this was not just shock people with the number of casualties, but to shock people with the amount of information that we really don't know".

With apologies, in advance, to Naomi Klein, I think what we're looking at now is not just shock, shock and awe, but a level of toxicity unparalleled in what we like to think of as the civilized world.