Sentence examples for was shocking about from inspiring English sources

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"What was shocking about this case in my mind was that it wasn't just one witness that fell apart, but all of the witnesses that fell apart".

What was shocking about today's Daily Telegraph Tory election leaflet of a front page was not that it had been organised by Conservative central office.

What was shocking about the Stamford Hill case was its proximity – the idea that, within our realm, women should be prohibited from driving.

And let us recall: what was shocking about September 11 was not just the slaughter of the innocent; but the knowledge that had the terrorists been able to, there would have been not 3,000 innocent dead, but 30,000 or 300,000 and the more the suffering, the greater the terrorists' rejoicing.

What was shocking about each of these events was not that a testosterone-fuelled, highly athletic young man with a short fuse got into a fight, but the severity of his reaction and the fact that he seemed to learn little from each incident.

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It's not just the scale, the mind-blowing square footage, that is shocking about this – it's the principle.

The size of this abandoned library is shocking: about 75percentt of all books in the world's libraries are orphaned.

By Vinson Cunningham February 2, 2018 What is shocking about "Concussion Protocol" is not so much the brutality on view but the difficulty of looking away.

WHAT is shocking about Senator Larry Craig's bathroom arrest is not what he may have been doing tapping his shoe in that stall, but that Minnesotans are still paying policemen to tap back.

The Kosovo Memory Book is unique because Serbs and Albanians are in one book together, as are KLA fighters, Serbian police and soldiers.What is shocking about so many of the stories is their sheer banality, which makes them all the more tragic.

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