Sentence examples for shock of war from inspiring English sources

"Because of the initial shock of war breaking out, it was really hard to get down to making music.

The shock of war reverberated among the Robin Moor survivors, some of whom felt that the aggression they'd experienced could now be reciprocated.

He used some of his cash to buy goods, including a new blue Mercedes, and some to gird his business for the shock of war.

(Woolfe) Classical Music Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) Shostakovich wrote his Second Piano Trio (Op. 67) in 1942, and it has the shock of war and Shoah deep in its bones.

But the shock of war affected politics much more, especially by giving full scope to the furious energy of William Morris Hughes, who supplanted Fisher as Labor prime minister in October 1915.

Photograph by John H. Marsh, Courtesy Iziko Museums of South Africa The shock of war reverberated among the Robin Moor survivors, some of whom felt that the aggression they'd experienced could now be reciprocated.

Images of conflict are bookended by sections about preparation (recruitment, training) and aftermath (executions, shell shock, the impact of war on civilians).

This complacent assumption was true of the postwar reconstruction, but only as a "consequence of war and of policies adopted to cope with the shocks of war".

The comedic linguist was attuned to the complicating shifts of nomenclature: he observed that the shell shock of World War I became the combat fatigue of World War II, then was called operational exhaustion in the Korean conflict and post-traumatic-stress disorder in Vietnam.

Likewise, some of our most famous World War I women writers--Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, and Ellen La Motte--wereactinginotnonlynly to the shock of modern war, but to new employment and social opportunities for women at the front and stateside, including their new power, at home, as arbiters of masculinity, a power that temporarily altered gender relations.

Yet few countries would adopt national ID cards until the shock of World War II.