Mainstream television has produced an array of shocking and heroic visuals sandwiched between car commercials and ads for Viagra and processed food.
Noting this, and the array of other shocking statistics now available on the violence children are enduring, Action on Violence Against Children will create a regional rallying cry as it seeks to keep governments accountable to commitments both to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Sustainable Development Goal 16.2.
Shocking moment to shocking moment.
But he should be grateful for their diverted gaze, because if anyone was actually paying attention to his incoherent ramblings they would find out that he doesn't have a firm grasp of his own foreign policy positions and a shocking ignorance of the threats arrayed against the United States.
And it allows France to refrain from too easy judgments: his job is not to offer the reader a final interpretation, but to present an array of stories -- shocking, compelling, heartbreaking, rage-inducing, strange.
She was usually partially nude, arrayed in an especially shocking position and with stockings or scarves tied around her neck, sometimes in a large bow, gift style.
The show featured the usual array of show-stopping performances and shocking moments (courtesy of Kanye West), but Beyoncé emerged as the night's real highlight, as the pop superstar played an impressive medley of songs from her album Lemonade.
It's shocking to think that the televised interview of Stephen Fry, which stimulated such an interesting array of reactions and discussions here in Britain, could lead to criminal sanctions against him in many countries.
What came next — twelve distinct series of works, arrayed chronologically in the show — was inventive enough, but to find it shocking today requires an effort of imagination.
