Sentence examples for shocking notion from inspiring English sources

To Mr. Zambrano, college was a shocking notion.

Hardly a shocking notion, but in the process, this movie-making documentary gleans some real insights.

Granted, it's a shocking notion that our elected officials might not behave in an intelligent and professional manner, but businesspeople must have contingencies, nonetheless.

To underscore how shocking such notions were, they should be compared with other examples from the genre in which Machiavelli was consciously working: the "Mirrors of Princes," a type of professional primer offered by advisers to young or recently elevated monarchs, meant to shape their judgment and, with it, the future of the state.

There's nothing truly shocking about the notion of squid robot monsters turning humans into batteries, because we're all already someone else's tool anyway.

Back then, as a fan of Alice Cooper (one of the first shock rockers) and Frank Zappa (the late social commentarian extraordinaire), the notion of shocking people out of their comfort zones was appealing.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

It's weird and shocking, but the book dispels all notions of Johnny being an emotionless robot with a six-string talent.

"Performance art has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture," the actor explained.

But what's most shocking isn't our ailing status; it's the notion that we as a country would rather perpetuate a cycle of discursive and intellectual poverty than elect leaders dedicated to ameliorating our country's broken machinery.

(One point he raises is that the notion of preventive detention shouldn't be all that shocking, since we do it already — in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere).