Sentence examples similar to so a shock from inspiring English sources

Why were the questions so much a shock to him?

What they represent now is not so much a shock value as an honesty value".

Yet after so great a shock no one can be sure that things will develop along such reassuring lines.

"In one instance, the arm of Oliver [a Neat adversary] received so paralyzing a shock in stopping the blow that it appeared almost useless," Egan once wrote).

Would that everything in the film, which charts this passion of Margot's and the deflation of her marriage to Lou Seth Rogenn), delivered so natural a shock.

"To me, who was the one selling the poison, it was so big a shock that I quit my job and returned to Brazil".

Not so much a shock, more "the day many in football had feared", according to BBC sports editor Dan Roan.

"She's been our driving force for the last so many days, so it was a shock to lose her," he said.

So when you get married, and find it's not so, it's a shock".

Certainly every Monocle reader knows about sex tourism, so why make a shock about it?

So it was a shock to see a 40-foot burglar bursting out one of them.