Sentence examples for psychologically shocking from inspiring English sources

The terrible destruction of the City of London, in which 10 Wren churches were hit in a single night of bombing in December 1940, made a psychologically shocking alteration to the townscape.

When people are used to seeing us appear as male or female, our neighbors, family, friends and co-workers, as well as strangers we pass every day on the street, it is visually and psychologically shocking for them to see us wearing clothes and bearing the appearance of the opposite.

Dozens of people were seriously injured, and many more were psychologically shocked, Mr. Brandet said.

"I knew it was an oppressive regime," she said, "but I was initially psychologically shocked to see people being killed in front of me".

Hundreds of thousands are killed, physically and psychologically maimed and shocked and awed by western weaponry.

And as we witness the evocation of a society where cruelty is both legislated and psychologically ingrained, the effect is deeply shocking.

We were shocked – shocked!

I'm shocked — shocked!

I'm shocked, shocked.

But Hernández and Fisher's article says that according to medical reports obtained by the journalists, more than two dozen municipal police officers from the towns of Iguala and Cocula were beaten, given electric shocks and "psychologically tortured" in an effort to force confessions from them.

Already psychologically frail, she retreated into shock, losing her sense of time, even of who she was.