Sentence examples for shocking with from inspiring English sources

"It's more shocking, with the police coming to Coverciano and people I know being arrested.

She watched In Bruges: "It's funny and shocking with a fantastic performance from Ralph Fiennes".

Some of the fees borrowers are being asked to pay are shocking, with up to £7,499 being charged for some high value loans.

And 1966's follow-up Beautiful Losers was both puzzling, with its complex symbolism, and shocking, with its lewd depictions of grubby sex.

At the same time, though, such legendary status can also be a burden, weighing down what was once fresh and shocking with a heavy freight of expectation and received opinion.

Among the more modern-day war plays, Ms. Benson's staging of "Blasted," which has closed at Soho Rep, was both the most shocking — with its gruesome physical violence — and the most despairing.

Security elements roamed the streets for hours afterward and indiscriminately fell upon anyone afoot, residents and dissidents said, beating them with sticks or shocking them with cattle prods.

Mr. Schoenberg grappled with the issue for 17 years after a shocking brush with a 1993 murder.

Teetotalers can try apple kompot (75 cents), made from fruit boiled with sugar, or tarragon soda ($2), dyed a shocking green, with a flavor more sugary than herbal.

Its crime rate is still shocking - with a population of just 400,000 it had more than 80 murders by the end of this summer, and 145 in total last year - but these deaths are localised in the shrinking ghettos.

Yet she was already shocking people with her "unobscured limbs".