Under the cool exterior, nicely fitted suits and solid stats, has anything shocked him since he took over?
But he is alarmed by the long-term effect of council spending cuts and the Winterbourne View abuse scandal in 2011 profoundly shocked him: "I couldn't get over it; I didn't think that sort of thing was possible".
This is what frustration sounds like: Darrelle Revis saying that he was shocked, over and over and over again.
For those who thought that Trump's remarks made him "dead in the water" politically had to be shocked over what has happened in the days since.
So he can't really be shocked over recent corporate scams.
The Israeli prime minster, Binyamin Netanyahu, said: "I am shocked over this reprehensible and horrific act.
Shocked over Zero's sacrifice, X regains his strength and finishes off Vile.
Shocked and heartbroken over Dolores O'Riordan's death.
During one game, the cub playfully chewed through the insulation of a wire lying on the ground; when he got to the core he gave himself a terrific shock that threw him over on his back and shorted out the stadium scoreboard for 10 minutes.
