Sentence examples for shocking influence from inspiring English sources

Like the alchemist in M. R. James's Lost Hearts who has a unsavoury interest in his young guest, or Peter Quint, who seems to have been a shocking influence on young Miles in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

The magazine's irreverent, often shocking, sensibility would influence American humor for decades to come.

Jo Stevens, shadow prisons minister, said: "It is absolutely vital that HM Inspectorate of Prisons is able to produce reports with total independence free from any interference or influence … This shocking inspection report raises huge questions about the Ministry of Justice's competence to address the worsening Tory prison crisis".

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

The story of Judith, a Jewish widow who saves her people by beheading the Assyrian general, was a popular subject at the time, and Caravaggio's shocking version may have been influenced by the public execution in 1599 of Beatrice Cenci and two other members of her family for the murder of her abusive father.

For better and sometimes worse, scores of other filmmakers in both the avant-garde and the commercial mainstream have been influenced by Mr. Conner's shocking juxtapositions and propulsive, rhythmically sophisticated montage.

This is shocking enough as an example of what Saudi influence on British Islam can lead to.

The words are a striking reminder of the long and shocking history of British Governments seeking to curtail the influence of the BBC.

So the idea that genes can have some influence on political views shouldn't be shocking – it would be weird if there wasn't some form of genetic influence.

However, at least in the Mediterranean countries, we cannot rule out the influence of the financial crisis on the shocking increase of social inequality between 2007 and 2011 [ 26], such that 29.9 % of Spanish children and adolescents are estimated to live below the poverty line [ 27].

(This despite the fact that his influence has been proven — and backed up by more shocking, scary evidence — in 2007).