Sentence examples for the shocking element from inspiring English sources
So child abuse is played for laughs, while the amorous premarital conduct of the lead characters is the shocking element in "Fallen Angels," which dared to question the sexual double standard (and lightly, with humor) when George V was still on the throne.
The gallery's grand scale and high ceilings do make it seem ideal for the shocking elements of Ms Ono's multimedia installation "Das Gift", which toys with themes of aggression and victimhood.
Once punters had parted with their money, they were presumably too embarrassed to complain that the most shocking element of the film was the cack-handed direction.
The most shocking element?
Perhaps the most shocking element pertains to its eroticism, which, though tame by today's standards, is peculiarly, disturbingly degrading.
Today the most shocking element of Strauss's notorious 1905 opera seems not its eroticism and necrophilia but its absence of a philosophical point of view.
But perhaps the truly most shocking element of all this is that we are not really that surprised.
Jane Basham Labour parliamentary candidate, South Suffolk It is hard to know which is the most shocking of the many shocking elements of Isabella Acevedo's story (G2, 24 July).
Though the show is remembered for its most shocking element, namely the extensive and accelerated use of plastic surgery, it was the contestants 16 in each season who were really at the show's centre, all at the end of their rope, desperate for change.
Opening with trigger warnings spelled out in huge text – "blood", "homophobia", "transphobia", "racism" and "murder", among them – the film challenges viewers to look out for each and every shocking element amid the scatter-gun pop culture references and split-screens of Instagram Stories and Snapchats.
