Sentence examples for shocking reading from inspiring English sources

The results provide shocking reading.

The current Department of Health permanent secretary, Una O'Brien, said the report made shocking reading.

The commission's investigation into the handling of an outbreak of Clostridium difficile at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which runs three hospitals, made shocking reading.

The diaries are given to the patients after their stay in the I.C.U. and can make for unflinching, sometimes shocking reading.

At halftime Wilson's statistics made shocking reading — he had completed just two passes to his own teammates for a total of 12 yards.

This year has seen the worst carnage yet: a list of terrorist attacks so far makes for shocking reading, with fatal incidents happening almost daily.

The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 208pp, Free Press, £12.99 Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma 256pp, Atlantic, £12.99 The Caged Virgin is a shocking read.

The knockabout opening chapter of The Great Tradition is still an entertaining, sometimes shocking, read: "Fielding hasn't the kind of classical distinction we are invited to credit him with.

It is a shocking read: multiple anal rapes and other serious sexual abuse; the routine abuse of women and children; the detention and abuse of minors; the use of dogs; sexual, religious and cultural humiliation; the use of hardcore pornography; serious threats of all types; mock executions.

Their report on the chicanery surrounding the Sochi project, "Winter Olympics in the Sub-Tropics," first published on May 30 and since updated, makes for a shocking read.

It is shocking to read some of the anti-Semitic statements with which he had to contend in the 1890s.