Sentence examples for to shocking from inspiring English sources

The images range – topically and visually – from comical to shocking.

Mali have always been unpredictable, capable of crushing almost anyone yet prone to shocking under-performances.

Soda-lime-silicates and alkali-lead-silicates, which typically have high expansion coefficients, are quite susceptible to shocking.

Both descriptions fit Angola, home to shocking juxtapositions.After decades of civil war between the government and the UNITA rebels, most Angolans no longer wish for much more than to survive from one day to the next.

She was the only woman, and the only American, in the triumvirate (the others were Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin) that by wide critical consensus changed fashion photography from sedate to shocking.

But when it comes to shocking the squeamish, he must, of course, give way to the Ibsen of "Ghosts," once execrated in both Britain and America for its candor about the inherited syphilis that is destroying Oswald Alving.

Every day we are bombarded with depressing news that ranges from disturbing to shocking.

The accounts of the return to work vary from positive to shocking.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

So there could be arguments both ways: that shock and trauma are sometimes elements of educational catharsis, or that deliberately exposing a class to shocking material without warning as a teaching strategy violates professional norms.

Gilot is used to shocking people.