Sentence examples for rather shockingly from inspiring English sources

His friends, rather shockingly, approved of the project.

Rather shockingly, it is only now that Mr Blair has finally worked out what he wants to do and how to do it.

It should not be a surprise that a woman from her background can be clever, funny and feminine, but rather shockingly it appears to be so to some".

Some do; the simulation game The Sims rather shockingly mirrors back to us the materialism of consumer capitalism, as well as making attempts to depict the benefits of more numinous values like friendship or learning.

His jolie laide features ranging from porcine to insufferably pious, sometimes segueing, rather shockingly, to instant murderous whimsy, it became fast clear he isn't going for the sympathy vote: no woebegone foot-dragging, hunching shrinkback he, but a proud, silver-tongued schemer.

The fact that Mr. Wright's anti-white, anti-American and even anti-Semitic statements are rather shockingly more common among black than white Americans ever would have believed does not change the fact that it is hate speech and undeserving of anything but contempt.

Or rather, quite shockingly dumb.

Shockingly, rather than make the automatic adjustment tailored to the spending of seniors and people with disabilities, and therefore more accurate, some prominent Republicans -- including a number of Republican presidential candidates -- want to make the adjustments more miserly.

Shockingly, rather than make those adjustments more accurate, some politicians support making them more miserly, through a change, known as the "chained CPI" -- a cruel and deceptive benefit cut, hitting hardest the oldest of the old, the poorest, and those disabled at young ages, including our brave wounded warriors.

The first is that the world seems to be coping rather well with today's shockingly high prices, so perhaps they have to persist for longer or rise higher still before investors are stirred into action.

Rather, it's because they shockingly uncover why living this way makes so much sense to people facing circumstances like hers.