Sentence examples for shocking good from inspiring English sources
Of all the state election results across the nation, few can top the shocking good sense of California voters in approving temporary tax increases to raise $6 billion a year to shore up the state's tattered public schools and university system.
More shocking, a good number of them thought the Opium Wars were waged to keep the evil Chinese drug from reaching American shores.
(It included a nude sex scene, which was pretty shocking, and shocking was good).
It's a shocking time, just wasn't good enough".
The disparity is shocking, and nothing good explains the difference.
"Goblin" is spiteful, internal, confident, vitriolic, vividly bruised stuff, a shocking — and shockingly good — album that bears little resemblance to contemporary hip-hop.
Mr Proglio's position at the top of two firms in related businesses is regarded in French boardrooms as a shocking breach of good corporate governance.
But bad sex writing is often a tough guy act – an attempt to intimidate the reader with shocking detail – whereas good sex writers invite the reader to explore strange territory.
The numbers are shocking, and not good to hear – you can't stop that stab of jealousy in your gut – but it's always the casualness of City traders that really takes me aback.
Those needs are efficiently and hilariously summarized by the classic image of Charles Laughton, in his Oscar-winning performance in Korda's "Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), devouring a capon with his bare hands, insouciantly tossing the bones over his shoulder while he deplores the truly shocking decline in good manners that characterizes his century.
