Sentence examples for positively shocking from inspiring English sources

When, at last, in "Life Class," Barker portrays attractive and heterosexual young people making love to each other in private in a warm bed, happily sharing the pleasures of the flesh with no fear of getting pregnant, the scenario is positively shocking.

Shocking, positively shocking.

He then blew up a drug lord's laboratory, peeled off his wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white DJ, snogged an exotic dancer, clocked in her eyeballs the reflection of a bad guy sneaking up behind them, tipped said bad guy into the bathtub, threw an electric heater in after him, and quipped: "Shocking, positively shocking!" All this, and the credits hadn't even started.

After the man is electrocuted to death, Bond sardonically quips: "Shocking, positively shocking".

The humour was present in the first film in the series, Dr. No, with Bond leaving a corpse in a car outside Government House and asking the Duty Sergeant to make sure he didn't get away, whilst in Goldfinger, Bond electrocutes a man in a bath, before commenting, "Shocking, positively shocking".

And the jaunty opening ("Shocking, positively shocking") not to mention the nuke ticking down to 007 seconds.

Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain ought to do exactly that, and anyone who expects to see or hear the film on stage will, hopefully, be positively shocked, as the uncompromising rigour and robustness of Wuorinen's musical language takes the story of Jack and Ennis into the universalising world of the opera stage.

As a result, Republicans were positively shocked at the election results.

The history of art is littered with artists who positively shocked during their lifetime and some still do, like Bosch with his earthly delights and Balthus with his cats and girls.

A multitude of very different indications like musculoskeletal diseases (calcaneal spur, tennis-elbow, golf-arm, lime-shoulder; Wang et al 2006), orthopedics (pseudarthrosis; Siebert and Buch 1997), chronic skin lesions (ulcus cruris) and burnings (Sparsa et al 2005; Schaden et al 2006) respond positively to shock wave therapy.

It appears that the principle of action is so universal that a multitude of very different indications like musculoskeletal diseases (calcaneal spur, tennis-elbow, golf-arm, lime-shoulder) (Wang et al 2006), orthopedics (pseudarthrosis) (Siebert and Buch 1997), chronic skin lesions (ulcus cruris) and burnings (Sparsa et al 2005; Schaden et al 2006) respond positively to shock wave therapy.