Smith had also delivered a few shocks at Reed.
There have been far bigger shocks at the halfway point of the Open.
And, ultimately, no shocks at the Stade Felix-Bollaert in Lens.
In fact Klinghoffer hardly shocks at all now, though it has dated.
He falls into a trap that often bedevils young playwrights: stretching for comic shocks at the expense of truthful portraiture.
She feels guilty about leaving abruptly as her mother will have to bear the brunt of both shocks at once.
And to him, some of the shocks were experienced not as shocks at all, but as wickedly seductive pleasures.
It's a bottom-up approach to the creation of community resilience; the ability to withstand shocks at the local level.
In the wake of the financial shocks at the end of 2008, spending by American households and businesses plummeted, and companies responded by curbing production and shedding workers.
But while Mr. Schrader is a deeply serious moralist who pulls you into worlds of churning emotion, Mr. Ellis delivers shocks at a chilly, seemingly noncommittal distance.
If, on the other hand, the worm receives mild electric shocks at regular intervals, it becomes progressively more likely to respond to a novel stimulus by withdrawal.
