Sentence examples for was truly shocking from inspiring English sources

The news of the chemical weapons attack was truly shocking.

The adagio accumulated tension and weight, and its climactic eruption into dissonance was truly shocking.

And yet, for all the harm she had done to herself, her death, when it came, was truly shocking.

Though we now live in an era where masturbation has been liberated from the desperate teen confessions of a Dolly Doctor sealed-section to socially sanctioned good clean fun, in 1990 I Touch Myself was truly shocking.

Even so, Fred's death was truly shocking.

The smell and the flies and the sheer immensity of the crumpled body -- like a wrinkled, punctured 'blimp' -- was truly shocking.

"I was truly shocked at how easy it is in this country to get rid of people.

"When I got down on the beach, I was truly shocked at what I saw," Tracey Read, a local cleanup volunteer, said in an e-mail.

"I was truly shocked by it so I wanted to write it down, but it's not something I want to glorify as it's still disturbing.

"I was truly shocked and devastated by my dismissal," said Arthur, who was sacked after Australia failed to qualify for the Champions Trophy semi-finals, although off-field incidents such as the Warner affair are thought to have been at least as important as on-field failure.

"I was truly shocked and devastated by my dismissal," he said.