Sentence examples for so much shocked from inspiring English sources

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The Shell man says he was not so much shocked as surprised by the British tabloid stories that highlighted Browne's sexuality.

Looking quickly at the image — Ms. Cyrus with her hair damp, her back bare, a sheet draped over her front — another Beacon sophomore looked not so much shocked as disturbed.

As John Lazenby explains in The Strangers Who Came Home (Bloomsbury, £18.99), an excellent, bustling account of the first Australian XI to tour England, in 1878, the cricketing public weren't so much shocked by the famous ten wickets for 21 runs the Sydney bank-clerk took against the MCC at Lords that year, as by the manner in which they were taken.

But whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary.

When I saw people smashing harsh words into their computer screens and releasing them for the world to read on twitter a few days ago, I wasn't so much shocked as disappointed.

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Not so much shock of the new as shock of the 'ooh!'ooh

"So, yes, there was not so much shock as there was empathy.

And I signed it, because I was in so much shock that I was asked at the wake.

We can move in with so much force and firepower — with so much shock and awe — that we will be too fast for him".

We can move in with so much force and firepower with so much shock and awe that we will be too fast for him".

"I know if I tried to stand up, I would fall down again because I'm in so much shock," Mr. Williams said.

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