Sentence examples for was designed to shock from inspiring English sources

It was designed to shock, frighten and, above all else, provoke a British audience.

One speaker, Romy Golan, a professor at CUNY, will talk about Futurist food, which was designed to shock and confuse the senses.

If the tape was designed to shock the jurors, they didn't show it.

This video was designed to shock you.

The Mirror's headline was designed to shock, yet fell flat; pricked hours later by a breezy tweet from Manchester United's Luke Shaw denying his involvement.

The horrific attack on an off-duty soldier and the blood-curdling justification of it was designed to shock and instil fear.

With its gory, mutilated corpses it is designed to shock.

And Anthony Head has the show-off quality of the dissolute littérateur whose every word is designed to shock.

The relationship between the co-leads is the crux of the game, while moments of violence are designed to shock rather than serve as adrenaline-rush exploitation.

The campaigning activities of Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are designed to shock, with bucketloads of fake blood, semi-nudity and sexy vegetables.

They go in for street theater, mass rallies, marches and extreme statements that are designed to shock polite society out of its stupor.