Sentence examples for shocking power from inspiring English sources

Such moments have a shocking power.

The Golden Notebook is a novel of shocking power and blistering honesty.

Hearing it today, in a wildly different political context, it retains its shocking power.

It's a story of such startling, shocking power and ugliness that it seemingly screams for inclusion in the film.

He and Rattle give the work's final moments, in which the composer quotes the last movement of Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" Symphony, an almost shocking power.

At some point towards the middle of the decade, shortly before the cult of the expert smashed into the populist backlash, the shocking power of central banks came to feel normal.

Minnelli's sympathy for lost and bewildered children has a vast resonance; a sequence involving a rectal thermometer has a shocking psychoanalytic power that's heightened by the chaste restraint and absolute dignity with which Minnelli stages the primal scene of submission to motherly power.

"I am in despair," he wrote, and out of that came what is perhaps his greatest, certainly his most emotionally charged work, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings: a work of shocking, naked power, this is music of the deepest feeling by a man not accustomed to feeling deeply.

This shocking accumulation of power may explain the Hungarian government's abolition of a separate data protection ombudsman who would have the power to investigate such shocking accumulation of data.

Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, said the chaining of seriously and terminally ill prisoners is "a shocking abuse of power".

Ramona Diaz made this "Independent Lens" documentary about a "shy young beauty" who became the first lady of the Philippines, famous for shocking abuses of power and personal indulgences (like the famed shoe collection).