Sentence examples for shocking subject from inspiring English sources
The shocking subject matter and vivid imagery of Morris's first volume were further developed by Algernon Charles Swinburne, who, in Atalanta in Calydon (1865) and Poems and Ballads (1866), combined them with an intoxicating metrical power.
However, he had now emerged from his Christian period, and for his dissertation he chose a potentially shocking subject from ecclesiastical law concerning the nature of ancient Jewish religion.
But roundheeled readers should stop smacking their lips and rubbing their hands because the deliberately shocking subject can be treated with decorum, in plain words, without the titillating examples of "dirty words".
4. 'THE MOONLIGHT ROOM' This first play by Tristine Skyler is a rarity from a young writer in this age of shocking subject matter and episodic, film-fluenced scripts: it's a realistic drama with both intelligence and a crowd-pleasing heart.
But in contrast to the popularity of the social media posts which correspond to the TMZ posts about Brown's deathbed photos, even Radar Online's treatment of the genuinely shocking subject matter didn't attract much engagement.
Throughout, shocking subject matter — murdered women and children, cringing adolescents, bodies in morgues, grotesque newborns — adds gravity that the works frequently lack.
With its shocking subject-matter and grim petit-bourgeois setting, Thérèse Raquin was both commended and censured in almost equal measure when it was first published.
He still tackles shocking subjects, from last meals on death row to City cocaine-taking, with a brazen bravado.
As early as 1981, critics were debating the value of his elegant style and shocking subjects (and referring, in one instance, to an earlier photographer as "the Robert Mapplethorpe of his generation").
One of Hodler's most shocking subjects was his lover Valentine Godé-Darel, whom he painted on her death bed.
"If you're shocking by subject matter alone, it's not enough, and it never was enough," he said.
