Sentence examples for shockable from inspiring English sources

"I was pretty shocked by "Pour it Up" and I didn't think I was very shockable.

What has replaced the lingering puritanism is a more acute sense of power relations; we have become at once less shockable about the erotic and more punitive about the uses of power.

(Neighborhoods with strict homeowner's associations are theoretically most shockable, and the visuals are good).

What is being set up, in short, is not a genuine culture clash; youth, whatever the title suggests, is not really in revolt, foisting its lyrical ambitions on a prosaic, shockable world.

Ten years on, we are less shockable, so it's doubtful his latest show will attract the same outrage, but just as visitors to Body Worlds vowed to quit smoking, so von Hagens's latest show may inspire a new generation of vegetarians.

Edge-of-certificate films could be sent out in clean and dirty versions with different certificates; the more shockable grown-ups could see the sanitised reels and complain less about the overall product.

No. My father used to be quite racy in his time, so I don't think he's that shockable.

This aspect needs to be highlighted because early defibrillation of patients with a shockable heart rhythm due to a heart attack gives them the same long-term prognosis as those patients who suffer a heart attack without cardiac arrest.

Such censorship may look fatuous and hypocritical but, if the facade serves as a filter to keep out the shockable, it is not so foolish a device.

Shockable though Cannes audiences have always been, the idea of being upset simply at sex became a bit passé, and the shocking films became increasingly about violence, from Michael Haneke's Funny Games to Gaspar Noé's Irréversible.

These days, with our most prominent politicians, celebrities and athletes — to say nothing of the "real" housewives of various American cities — exploding the boundaries of social acceptability as forcefully as any poète maudit ever did, the Miser has trouble imagining a still-shockable bourgeoisie.