Sentence examples for violent shock from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to give a violent shock to the Italian system," he told me.

Yet the bad-gal nastiness soon gives way to more generous impulses, trading violent shock value for flamboyant showmanship.

The intended result is a violent shock wave through the opposite side of the surface that has been struck.

Renzi clearly feels that it is important to give the Italian system a violent shock to stimulate employment.

"We believe that taking into consideration the very violent shock, his helmet did protect him to a certain extent.

Geologists looking at rocks from the end of the Cretaceous in Montana found tiny mineral grains that seemed to have suffered a violent shock.

There are no violent shock-for-shock's-sake beats on the soundtrack, and although several characters are murdered, most of the killings take place off screen.

But it is Becca who sustains the most violent shocks over the course of the play.

Indeed, it may be prone to less frequent, but more violent, shocks, spreading from individual banks throughout the financial system.

They are a major source of heating of interstellar gas by means of the magnetic turbulence and violent shocks that they produce.

Another quake hit the northern Emilia Romagna region in May 2012, when two violent shocks 10 days apart left 23 people dead and 14,000 others homeless.