Sentence examples for shocking description from inspiring English sources

It is a shocking description of the lives of residents of Annawadi, Mumbai, a slum by a sewage lake near the airport, surrounded by luxury hotels and billboards advertising floor tiles said to be "beautiful forever".

There are also some shocking descriptions of the Mao-induced famines when starving Tibetan prisoners would search the faeces and vomit of fellow prisoners for any food that had not been digested.

When Siegfried Sassoon published his poem Atrocities in 1919 it was shocking in its description of British soldiers boasting about killing German prisoners.

While the latter is clearly a misconception, many diabetes-related media campaigns use shocking images or descriptions of diabetes complications which can evoke fear of complications and feelings of guilt.

(Far more shocking than Regan's description of blinding Gloucester is Goneril's "Shut up").

Comic or shocking, Ackerley's unashamed descriptions of Queenie's physical functions are part of his answer to the question about how much can be told.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

Melvin Burgess is shocking, and deliberately so, in his descriptions of stomach-turning cruelty, but his carefully constructed retelling of the Nordic Volsunga saga is rich enough in other ways to carry it.

Plenty of people have seized upon her more shocking pronouncements: her recent comments about Gaza; her poisonous description of Adele last year.

Neffe's description of Einstein as a man of "profound, shocking loneliness" may be an exaggeration, but it touches on the very real price he paid for his singular imagination.

Her descriptions of the polygamous sect's rigidity are shocking, but what's most fascinating is the immensely likeable author's struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of its consequences".