Sentence examples for to shocking effect from inspiring English sources

A recent Parsifal, and a Rienzi, have tackled the German nation's own troubled sense of its recent history to shocking effect.

Like the French artist Marcel Duchamp, Hirst employed ready-made objects to shocking effect, and in the process he questioned the very nature of art.

Karin Fossum makes that point to shocking effect in WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS THE CANDLE (Harcourt, $24) by detailing the escalating damage that results when two bored teenagers embark on a spree of mindless mischief.

Finding a dead mouse in his parking garage, he takes it to work and plants it on a copying machine to satisfyingly shocking effect.

The America he presented to such shocking effect more than 30 years ago is now full color — not black and white, not North and South — in every sense.

They wrestle fish out of the water, tow one another behind speeding boats and reinterpret vessels — to sometimes shocking effect — as floating nightclubs.

The unexpectedness of these scenes adds to the shocking effect, but it also invites the suspicion that St. Aubyn isn't quite capable of juxtaposing comedy and savagery in a way that would enhance the effects of both.

I had never thought much about climate change before, but I was introduced to the shocking effects on the lives of everyone we met.

It is impossible to overestimate the shocking effect the high casualties of this battle had on both sides.

There were rumors that Herrmann had used electronic means, including amplified bird screeches to achieve the shocking effect of the music in the shower scene.

"A young girl sitting behind the judges' table had to change her clothes," they wept, for full shocking effect.