Sentence examples for subtle shock from inspiring English sources

Composers liked the fact that listeners were quieting down; the subtle shock of a C-sharp wouldn't register if the crowd were chattering away.

Mr. Trpceski proved himself a master of Chopin's subtle shock tactics, those sudden hollows and unsignaled sharp turns that leave you momentarily disoriented within Chopin's dreamy terrain.

But the book itself is a subtle shock to the system, portraying our medical culture — with all its oddities and bizarre rites — as seen through the eyes of Hmong immigrants, people with a wholly different, fascinating belief system.

A great all-round package, the Disc 5 includes the mid-range Shimano 105 20-speed drive train and a comfortable "endurance" design with slightly longer wheelbase and taller handlebars than a classic race bike, some subtle shock-absorption from flattened tubes in the frame and carbon fork and the seat post, and super-wide bottom bracket for good power transfer.

His great achievement is not the complex fictional universe he has shaped over the last two decades but the people who inhabit that universe, especially the reluctant believers like Patera Silk, an unorthodox priest whose faith grows more subtle with every shock to traditional dogma.

Sympathetic, subtle, and sometimes shocking.

Subtle - Unlikely Rock Shock (Lex) Discovering that your office has been replaced by a sculpture of Robert Plant, made entirely out of Heinz spaghetti hoop cans.

Cu samples shocked with a triangular-shaped "Taylor wave-like" pulse show subtle microstructural differences to those shocked with a square-top shaped shock pulse loading.

The reasons for the new American austerity are subtler, but not shocking.

He argued that psychological trauma or shock could cause subtle organic changes and trigger abnormal biological processes to the nervous system in the same way that psychological therapies (hypnosis, suggestion) could have a positive impact on organic disorders.

Each may be accompanied by subtle myocardial abnormalities in patients with shock.