Sentence examples for scandalised to learn from inspiring English sources

Surely you remember those awful reports about the antics of Chuck and Di Laurence (not "Larry") Leigh BeirutYO, ECONOMIST – I was scandalised to learn I had been previously scandalised without even knowing it, when I read that Gordon Brown had "scandalised Americans" by referring to our president as "Barack".

They need to learn how to learn".

Learn to listen and listen to learn.

IN MOST countries voters are scandalised when they learn that a political party is in bed with big business.

He filed scandalised reports to the colonial office.

One device we used to scandalise their silence was to deliver our petition to their door.

The Composer is scandalised, but agrees to revise the opera on the advice of his Music Master.

"Narrative art is dead – we are in a period of mourning"; "To scandalise is a right, to be scandalised a pleasure"; "Refusal must be great, absolute, absurd…" Abel Ferrara's infatuated tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini is littered with such gnomic bon mots, which could apply equally to either director.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an outspoken Marxist intellectual and a film-maker of rare, taboo-busting talent; a man who insisted that "to scandalise is a right, to be scandalised a pleasure".

After discoursing on the book's literary qual ity, he added that: 'Madame Reage, who is from an academic family which she feared to scandalise, has refused until now to reveal her name.

Scandalised by the decision to start scheduling TV games at 12.30pm on a Sunday, Parma's supporters decided to take direct action.