Sentence examples for shocking method from inspiring English sources

Even George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director who insisted that the agency had thoroughly researched its proposal and pressed it on other officials, did not examine the history of the most shocking method, the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.

"I kept reading more and more, and was astounded by the shocking method through which Cheney gained power, and how much he has shaped the United States' current place in the world," he said.

In my junior years as a researcher in the headhunting trenches, I saw some pretty shocking methods of working.

This shocking extraction method bankrupts entire communities, puts miners out of work, leaves the residents with poisoned or buried water sources, homes of no value and hosts of illnesses.

McKay told Deadline he had long been intrigued by Cheney, but "once we started digging I was astounded at how much he had shaped modern America's place in the world and how shocking the methods were by which he gained his power".

"The police use shocking restraint methods.

Theater and music adopted new methods, shocking audiences with their frankness.

Masson's book exposes shocking cruelty in farming methods: pigs fattened to immobility, tails cut, teeth removed; calves made anaemic through an iron-free diet to make their meat paler.

Indeed it does; that's as shocking as little Michael Myers's method of settling family disputes.

"It's a pretty hair-raising story that they're telling about how those objections were handled," Judge Korman said, adding later: "I just find this method of operation shocking".

In a sort of preparation method acting, the shocking truths she learned were impossible not to internalize.