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I was rather shocked.
When I read that one I was rather shocked to find I didn't much like my earlier self.
I have not had much time for that end of the journalistic market place but I was rather shocked, despite what happened to me.
It was such a natural reaction, and I was rather shocked".
Among the academics, I would say that I was rather shocked by kind of their obliviousness, and it was clear, I would say, that they were the group that was most shocked at being challenged and the most un-used to being challenged, particularly in regards to their financial arrangements and their conflicts of interest.
"I'm going to sound like an ancient person, but I was rather shocked at what they can show on TV now!" MacDowell isn't the only one to criticize the sexual graphicness of "Girls" (though feminist icon Gloria Steinem loved it), but with "Cedar Cove" being picked up for a second season she probably won't have too much spare time to catch the second season of "Girls" anyway.
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That was when Mr. Stravinsky, in his Russian accent, asked Mr. Klein, "Tell me, my dear, do you love our Bliss very much?" "I recall being rather shocked by such a question," he said.
GS: In the same way, the listeners are rather shocked with the way, in the 60th episode, of getting rid of a popular character, by making him fall off a roof.
I think a lot of people would be rather shocked to hear that such a notion would even be open to debate.Most prosecutors are well-intentioned, honest public servants.
But wouldn't you be rather shocked to learn — shortly afterwards or indeed years and years later — that your medical records are now sitting on a Google server because Alphabet's corporate leaders want to scale a fat healthtech profit?
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