Sentence examples for shocking force from inspiring English sources

The government used overwhelming, shocking force – and fear works.

In 1946 Gorky's life started to unraveled with shocking force.

(I can recall a visit by Wiesel to our synagogue on Long Island around 1973; what he told his audience seemed to hit them with shocking force).

The last really consequential show there was Susan Rothenberg's big outline paintings of horses, in 1975, which presaged, with shocking force, an epochal return of painting to youthful favor.

The critic Alex Ross, writing of "Messiah" in The New York Times in 1993, called for "a re-imagining of the work's elemental principles, a recovery of its shocking force".

In a townhouse on leafy, prosperous West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, close by houses once occupied by Poe, Melville and Whitman, there was, at 11.55am, a series of horrifying explosions; first one, then two more of equally shocking force.

A motto that shocking forces everyone to stop and think.

Thickly padded, laterally stabilized athletic shoes were initially conceived to protect ankles, knees, hips and spine from the repetitive torsional and shocking forces found in running.

Each shocking assault forces the two characters' hands in ugly ways.

The UN human rights chief has condemned the "shocking" use of force by security forces against protesters in Bahrain.

It was a shocking use of force.