With the brilliant, Technicolor photograph of a stunning Doris Day in her prime on the front and shocking pink tone chosen for the back, you can't help but feel it's a Valentine from David Kaufman to "Clara" (the nickname given to Day by comedic actor Billy De Wolf, to which she answers today).
The level of detail employed in this frequently underrated novel is what makes it truly shocking: its tone of cool, clinical analysis is always the same, whether applied to death and destruction or machinery and weather conditions.
"The fact that the MPs have then marked their own homework and decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and suggested that she should only be made to repay a mere £5,000 is neither here nor there - the language of the report is shocking in its tone, and I think Maria Miller stands condemned by her own actions".
"This appointment is both shocking and frankly tone deaf to what the American people are concerned about," Representative Tim Murphy said in a statement.
Now, the fact that there's a group of dedicated fans of an old video game on the internet is hardly shocking, but the tone of the Shenmue fans on 500K is so weird.
The virulence of that shocking remark suggests the tone and the import of the conflict in South Boston at the time.
His amorality is all the more shocking for its modest tone, and for coming from a man capable of noticing, as he walks through the calm night of St. Nils, the "occasional faint crunch of a snail" mingled with the "shush" of fallen leaves.
While some critics called her poetry polemical, she remained celebrated for the unflagging intensity of her vision, and for the constant formal reinvention that kept her verse — often jagged and colloquial, sometimes purposefully shocking, always controlled in tone, diction and pacing — sounding like that of few other poets.
Before you say, "Wow, how shocking," in that sarcastic tone of yours, consider the fact that this is a story that often goes untold.
"It was shocking he is still tone deaf to the needs of the hardworking middle class of New Jersey, who have been hurt by his policies," Buono told HuffPost about Christie's annual address to the state Legislature.
"It may be shocking, but he actually toned it down a lot by his final draft," she says.
