Sentence examples for shocking feat from inspiring English sources
De Sade's installation in one of France's great literary institutions would, paradoxically, enshrine the subversive author in respectability and could become the marquis's most shocking feat.
This brings me to "Awesome Bill From Dawsonville," the Nascar champion Bill Elliott's autobiography, in which he pulls off a shocking feat.
But this remarkably young squad with five novice rowers and a freshman coxswain were pulling off a shocking feat.
Convinced (rightly) that Western judges would always undermark the innovative Chinese skating esthetic, he decided to hammer his team's excellence into their heads with shocking feats of athleticism.
The explicit "Romance" (1999), about a woman's need for erotic love, "achieved the considerable feat of shocking France," Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times.
Successfully shocking Sarah Silverman is a feat of Olympic proportions.
North Korea's last appearance in the World Cup — in 1966 — resulted in one of soccer's greatest feats, a shocking 1-0 victoverover Italy, whose humbled players were reportedly pelted with rotten fruit upon returning home in disgrace.
The story -- nuanced, shocking and slippery -- requires more than a literal-minded transcription of the novel, and Ms. Gordon performs the alchemical feat of turning it into visual poetry.
