Sentence examples for shocking length from inspiring English sources

According to Brendan Gill, it created a sensation in the halls of The New Yorker weeks before it appeared in print, because of the shocking length of its galleys, which ran to something like seventy inches at a time when most of the magazine's stories were still fifteen hundred words long, and because of the disturbing nature of it content.

The film goes to shocking lengths to show how this wildly popular form of entertainment transforms its young male fans into uncouth, slack-jawed dolts who think that punching women in the face is an acceptable mode of foreplay, and who are entirely unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.

"This shows the shocking lengths that the government is going to avoid transparency," he said.

Every day my husband and I are harassed by dozens of aggressive photographers staked outside our home who will go to shocking lengths to obtain any kind of photo, even if it means endangering us or the unlucky pedestrians who happen to be nearby.

Based on Dreaming of Julia's last race, a run for fun in the Gulfstream Park Oaks at the end of March in which she dominated by a shocking 21¾ lengths for her jockey, John Velazquez, she towers above her class regardless of gender.

In another, mighty Secretariat chased Onion in vain in a shocking one-length defeat in the Whitney here in 1973.

What they uncovered is not only shocking, but shows the lengths that the crooked detective and prosecutor in my case went to in their efforts to conceal my innocence.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

Seeking to appeal to college-age voters, Trump made the shocking claim that he alone can determine the length of the diagonal of a right angle just by knowing the length of each of the sides.

Although the raw number isn't totally shocking, it's worth noting that the average length of respondents' one-way commute was 12.8 miles long and took about 33 minutes.

The evoked sensation had a lancinating, shocking and electric quality and travelled along the length of the lower limb.