Sentence examples for shock lay from inspiring English sources

But I could not know that a greater shock lay just ahead.

Tristram Shandy's power to shock lay in its frank and comic acknowledgement of the libidinal energies that animated 18th-century life.

The shock lay in the uncompromising speed at which the authorities moved.

For Lowe, the shock lay less in the fact that her co-workers and superiors saw something wrong with her hairstyle, and more so in the assumption that her hair -- however it may look -- indicated her professional value in her workplace.

This makes a repeat of ruinous wage-price spirals much less likely.Show that you mean itAnother difference from the 1970s is that the epicentre of the inflationary shock lies in the developing world.

The shock lies in discovering that Una is not after revenge but some sort of closure to a relationship that ended tantalisingly in a Tynemouth hotel when Ray went out for a packet of cigarettes and never returned.

But although Fletcher's feminist sequel to The Shrew, in which Petruchio is tamed by his second wife, is a fascinating discovery, the real shock lies in Doran's startling reappraisal of Shakespeare's notoriously problematic comedy.

And, when Thea Sharrock's production of Henry V is seen in the new BBC Shakespeare season, I trust it will be judged by its quality rather than by people's amazement at a woman directing a play about war (anyway, the real shock lies in finding Shakespeare on British television).

The mortality of severe sepsis and septic shock lies between 25 and 50 %, with the extent and number of organs failing as the strongest predictors of an adverse outcome [ 2].

Amanda Seyfried slated to star in Linda Lovelace biopic Taylor's a Milk fan(g): Twilight star Lautner set to collaborate with Gus van Sant Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange and Dirty Harry made 1971 an annus horribilis, but the year's biggest shocks lay in the dark corners of 10 Rillington Place, says Peter Bradshaw.

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