Sentence examples for shock to shake from inspiring English sources

The team needed a shock, to shake them up.

My goal was to shock you, to shake you out of complacency".

Brooke wanted to shock and to shake things up, but doing so was almost too easy — he lost a fight over the title of a poem called "Lust," which his publisher insisted on elevating into "Libido".

So even though I respect his opinions, I'm going to stick by what I think: that "Django Unchained" uses genre conventions and shock value to shake us out of our complacent view of history and remind us that this was real, it was horrible and it was relatively recent.

The shock result appeared to shake older brother David's campaign, as he described it as a "wake-up call", with Ed's supporters claiming his drive was winning the hearts and minds of the party.

I'd love some shock, a raw mess to shake up my biases.

His decision was the "equivalent of an earthquake" whose shock was severe enough to shake California's democracy.

America's team, if you will, was ready to shake, bake, shock and awe.

Though still in shock, I made the rounds to shake everyone's hand.

Writers learn their craft from the canon of drama but they should steer clear of recipes - and McKee's work has become one more ideology filtering out the shocks that radical fiction uses to shake us from our slumbers.

It took Arsenal 40 minutes to shake off the shock and to turn an anxious, disjointed performance into something more stirring.