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How to use shocking in a sentence

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The offensive and shocking new program is a show for blokes about being a bloke and doing blokey things.
Here's the seller's final update explaining the real reason for his shocking behaviour.
That must start in school by backing teachers who take a stand against drink and drugs and the shocking behaviour of a minority.
The establishment of the bureau does not connote a new-found official concern over the shocking conditions facing coal miners.
Somehow, in the aftermath of this shocking event, life has to go on for the couple.
The result has been a mishmash that is neither shocking nor revolting or entertaining.
What makes this story truly shocking is that it comes as no surprise to the medical profession.
But when I heard about the shocking news of Elizabeth's passing, I felt compelled to say a few words in her honor.
I have seen your intended involved in numerous situations that have repulsed me and that are too shocking for me to relate on paper.
It's a shocking indictment that 40 per cent of our remaining local ecosystems are at risk of extinction.
A shocking new study tonight shows how simply riding the bus to school can be harmful to your child's health.
But people were upset at the shocking scenes of dead people and at the timing of the programme.
After the histrionics were well and truly over, the realisation dawned that something truly shocking had occurred.
In files that have already been opened, some shocking discoveries have been made.
With this shocking admission, our news team realized that the problem of fraudulent grading ran deeper than we had feared.
The drama hangs on an extremely shocking climactic event and our understanding of its causes.
The alabaster sculpture on display at a Baghdad gallery bears a striking resemblance to some of the shocking photographs that emerged last week.
Of course, faced with this shocking news, congress is off to make sure that something is done right away!
Schools cannot continue to turn a blind eye in light of these new shocking statistics.
And a Missouri family got a shocking surprise when they moved into their apartment.
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What was more shocking, however, was the fakeness of it all, like a 1980s revival show but with even worse tunes.
Today she is wearing a simple shift dress and no make-up and the sight of her looking so ordinary and conventional is indeed slightly shocking.
I send my sympathies to the two families involved, it's a shocking tragedy.
Of course, most of us experience this as something traumatising, shocking, where you can never be sure.
The shocking selection criteria it used to appoint him as its new chief executive officer is just not cricket.
The explicit, filthy language of sexual situations coming out of their mouths was shocking.
Kate was warm and kind and funny in the shocking kind of way only a real lady can manage.
Later he became the supreme 1960s dandy subversive, shocking the nation by being the first man to use the f-word on television.
That documentary dished out shocking revelations as to what the state fed our children.
In both the cityscapes and the flower paintings, an almost shocking liberty with facts is apparent.
During harvest time they were shocking bundles of grain and hauling them to the threshing outfit and pitching them into the separator.
The oddest color I think I've seen was a fluorescent shocking pink compound that turned up in the lab next door when I was an undergraduate.
In other stalls you can find shocking pink fabric covered with Chinese symbols, a record as old as your grandfather and silver jewelry.
Oversized shocking pink bears filled the backdrop, plastic watches and cheap costume brooches and bangles were crammed in the front showcase.
Can you even imagine squeezing electric blue or shocking pink margarine on your toast in the morning?
The Right are trying to disown it, engaging in the most shocking revisionism and paralogical torsions imaginable.
A new energy emerged from some of the glaring colors, such as shocking pink, scotchlight yellow, bright orange and lime green.
You can see them in the streets of Shiraz, flashes of shocking pink or blue kicking out from under their demur black chador.
Debbie stared in bewilderment at the principal, who had dyed her hair a shocking pink.
The interior design would not be to everyone's taste, particularly the shocking pink and black kitchen.
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In the midst of my surprise I am vaguely aware of another shocking pink object in my peripheral vision, moving rapidly towards me.
The 16-minute film is based on a family birthday party in which the characters are forced to face shocking home truths.
Canary yellow, shocking pink, electric blue and bright orange show off a joyful, forever-young attitude.
Standing by were stepladders, sieves and sacks of sawdust, dyed peacock, emperor, yellow, emerald, shocking pink and black.
The fantasy is unfolding almost invisibly in Prakash Talkies, a decrepit theater with shocking pistachio green walls.
It was particularly shocking that this dreadful language was directed at a group that included members of the Cubs, Brownies and Beavers.
The singer wore shocking pink and the other band members donned powder blue.
Ten years ago, Nick could be seen sporting a shocking ranged of jumpers that range from violent pink to bilious yellow.
There is another shocking moment in Juliet's bedroom when her mother and father are remonstrating with her about her refusal to accept Paris.
It is shocking that we should pay many times more for the care of criminals than we do for the care of children with special needs.
It was a shocking lapse from the usually solid stopper and completely knocked the wind out of City's sails.
But any phenomenon in nature, however grand, great, shocking, dark, and terrifying, would have limits and borders.
So it's always shocking to see a celebrity, a person of that kind of renown, brought low.
This must have been nearly as shocking as that dark day lost in history when she was demoted from her position as milk monitor at primary school.
The level of black-on-black brutality and destruction is sometimes shocking in this novel, but not unbelievable.
In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children.
Annalise whose zest for life and whose loud raucous ways had been both shocking and enticing to the bookish Emily.
And three years ago Elizabeth Taylor briefly abandoned her trademark black bouffant for shocking silver, and what an impact it made.
P had dirty blonde dreads, shocking front teeth, and a scabby old dog which gave us all scabies.
It is quite shocking that this is not going to solve the problems in areas blighted by empty houses.
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There was a shocking, blinding ache in my arm but I ignored it, dashing to Vik's side.
The film comes to St. Kilda where blowing someone's brains out looks rather more amusing than shocking.
However, because of this relative uneventfulness, the infernal events that unfold at the end of the film are all the more shocking.
It is a shocking fact that despite the vast tracts of industrial wasteland in inner Glasgow the city now has a shortage of developable land.
The magistrates described the deductions as shocking, uncalled for and unfair since they were never consulted or notified.
A shocking recent study found an oviraptor embryo inside one of those eggs, so actually the oviraptor was by its own nest!
It was certainly felt shocking in some Borrowdale circles that he was entertaining unchaperoned females.
Metaphors or repetition become tiring and irritating when overworked, rather than amusing, moving or shocking.
These shocking figures underline the need for the public to reduce, reuse and recycle.
This is apparently for security purposes, to bring down the terrorist threat from sky blue to shocking pink.
He takes in her dark brown hair, badly cut, and over pale face accentuated by a shocking slash of vibrant red mouth.
Milgram's shocking experiment years ago demonstrated the lengths people go to to satisfy authority.
The Canadian public has recently seen several shocking crimes perpetrated by prisoners out on parole.
No. 2 is the longer by 13 minutes, and notable for the emergence of a poignant viola tune in the big lento finale, and for a shocking last bar.
Every week promised a new pairing, a bitter feud, and a shocking reveal that changed everything for the characters.
Peggy is keen to publish the sculptor's memoirs but Alice thinks the past holds no interest until some shocking revelations are disclosed.
While it contains a shocking revelation, its impact is diluted by the immensely overlong justification which accompanies it.
Once we began to study it, we found it was so injurious to your health that it was shocking.
So, shocking as it may seem, the truth is that some reviewers skip some books.
After several times of shocking him until he passed out it took more than a couple of buckets of cold water to revive him.
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I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks.
A similar rhetorical device is used to make numbers of weapons appear shocking.
When you compare the UK, America and other rich countries to the Third World where so many people are starving, it's absolutely shocking.
It's a shocking record for a club that ridiculously claims to be the Manchester United of Australian sport.
In Joe's case, something shocking and life threatening has to happen before he suddenly sees the light.
What's shocking is that some of what was said in these letters shouldn't be published anywhere.
The shocking double life she led was concealed from her workmates and family.
This week it was High A, the vibrating shrilly ring that was sudden and shocking.
Such crimes may be rare, but it's not just their infrequency that makes them so shocking.
Their story is one of resilience, despite the most shocking and appalling conditions which they have endured.
He is an overrated and overparted tenor who once had a real future in front of him, but the way he has been treated at La Scala is shocking.
So, I'm going to speak my peace at the risk of shocking a lot of people I respect.
The violence is more ritualized than in, say, American gangster films, so that it seems both shocking and unreal at the same time.
Soccer fans have long complained of shocking officiating by referees and linesmen, raising suspicions of match fixing.
But it's shocking that linguistics and linguists haven't been celebrated in the titles of music and films.
She reapplied her shocking red lipstick in the rearview mirror, smacking her lips in satisfaction.
The fall of a Titan is always much more shocking than the stumble of a pygmy.
The campaign was directly initiated by a shocking and devastating increase in femicide since the beginning of the year.
As a statement of fact, it is a shocking indictment of our society after a period of relative wealth by comparison with other nations.
It was a livid blue colour although sometimes it melded through a shocking purple into a bright red.
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I felt as though cold water had just been dumped over my head, shocking me and rooting me to the spot.
It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable.
I have been burgled four times before so it came as no surprise to me when I heard the news although it was still shocking.
It shocking to see how ignorant and dismissive of the arts scientists can be.
The shot captured a virtual sea of Lolitas dressed in makeup, halter tops and platform shoes and was fairly shocking to everyone.
Her concerns range from shocking acts of internecine slaughter to the emotional loneliness of the war reporter.
This year's toll of four deaths is grimly shocking and raises questions about the safety of such long-distance races.
Gibson, who funded, directed and co-wrote the upcoming movie, said he wanted the movie to be shocking and extreme.
At this altitude the wind would cause the carefully tended lawn to tremble with a chill, sudden and shocking.
It's not quite shocking or sordid enough to fit in the hentai tradition, and its visual style is a far cry from traditional anime.
However, the book offers a fascinating, and at times shocking, treatment of the man's life and times.
The consequences of inaction for our nation and the world are too shocking to consider.
The inability of the government and various state agencies to control runaway expenditure on infrastructure projects is shocking.
Whilst both books should be celebrated and praised as artistic successes, it is Brite's novel which is truly the more shocking work.
A couple of glistening new campuses mask the shocking physical decay of dozens of city schools.
Tiny and withered by hard living as she appeared, she still wore shocking strawberry blond braids down to her waist.
The industry's opposition to the country-of-origin labeling is just one shocking thing they've done.
It was shocking to me how many people came from outside the country to give him support.
If it all sounds slightly tacky, outrageous, and shocking, that's exactly the point.
Then he suddenly notices something really shocking and his hand flies up to his head as he gasps audibly.
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The reports also portray a shocking tale of work almost without break and poor living conditions.
The shocking gouge in the forehead has been filled in and cosmetic surgery has restored the indentation above the eyebrow.
But while Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet turned in melodramatic, cornball performances, Linney's was powerful and shocking.
Even to those familiar with the story, the sufferings of the navy make shocking reading.
They are avowedly devoted to the cause of righting what they see as a shocking bias in the western media.
As news of the shocking rampage spread, heartbroken relatives arrived to inspect their loved one's graves.
The image was too shocking to be used in any publicity designed to make drivers slow down.
The shocking discovery of discarded glue bags raises the frightening spectre of youngsters hazarding their lives in search of cheap thrills.
In this exhibition, he seems more interested in captivating viewers rather than in shocking them.
She was shown shocking photographs of babies born with terrible congenital malformations.
His mother was a lot shorter than her son and husband, but had the same shocking stone-blue eyes as her son, and long nut-brown hair.
Our survey audience is a tech-savvy crowd, so it's not shocking that two techie gadgets dominate this list.
This knowledge makes the idea of Victor Frankenstein scavenging graveyards for parts seem less shocking.
In retrospect, the most shocking thing was the way the police treated the violence as nothing.
It was a vote which lead to shocking scenes of ethnic violence against a tropical, picture-postcard island backdrop.
He received a telephone call on that day to be told of the shocking murders.
It just happened that non-realistic art got media attention because the media focuses on the shocking and controversial.
One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking.
Instead, Mayer provides the shocking example of David Berkowitz to underscore and ironize one of these easy formulations.
The graphic violence is fittingly shocking at first, but as it goes on and on, it becomes almost comical.
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Besides shocking me, it got me to thinking about the value of various types of products and their visibility in use.
He really enjoys himself when he can mentally terrorize his audience, shocking them to a catharsis.
The text breaks into the temple of Russian literature with its lively and trembling, shocking and abrupt style.
Then he was marked down again for the shocking shiny suit he was wearing and ended up without very much going for him at all.
That shocking statistic is the reason Todd's side are just on the fringe of the play-off race and not in the thick of it.
There was no skill with the long sword, and Jash wielded the broadsword with a shocking incompetence.
It is deeply shocking that the leaders of the council want to stop the event.
He was bold, outrageous, witty, shocking and sympathetic without being the least bit soppy or sentimental.
Masochists inflict pain upon themselves through shocking, pricking, or choking, and about 30 percent participate in sadistic behavior as well.
The descriptions of quite how far the death-cult has gone in masochistically embracing violence are still shocking.
British and Australian newspapermen are still remarkably unabashed about the habit, and speak about it with shocking forthrightness.
Well, for one thing, writing a shocking story has been, historically, one way to bring yourself to public attention.
He said a shocking 610 high schools in the province scored below 50 percent in matric results last year.
Tonight, another astounding story of citizen crime solvers, all thanks to the shocking power of the media.
If there was anything Isabelle loved more than shopping, it was shocking the polite society.
Bailey's polished performance was only undermined by the shocking decision of the wardrobe department to put him in a polo shirt.
His more thoughtful critics worry that he is a little too much in love with the idea of himself as a shocking truth-speaker.
Luciano's death, at the end of the film, is shocking because it makes evident that the characters are at the mercy of their own neglectfulness.
After the shocking performances of Britain's male athletes, few expected them to come up trumps on the final day of track and field action.
In a brilliantly wry and acidly accurate mini short story he demonstrates the shocking swerving from honesty and truth by the government.
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Her reflection was eerie and the skylight threw a shocking bright light down on top of her.
The rich are almost obscenely wealthy, while the poor live in shocking conditions.
So shocking is this injury, in fact, that there are fears over the player's career.
Demme yields shocking imagery from seemingly innocuous props like night-vision goggles and a self-storage container.
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
He sent dozens before firing squads, shocking friends with his mercilessness.
This is character-driven film noir, where the violence serves a higher purpose than shocking or titillating an audience.
This shocking and disgraceful practice should not be tolerated in any society.
No, the really shocking statistic was that Hearts were ten points behind Celtic.
We were both wearing braces on our teeth so let's just say it was shocking!
Horrible and shocking as the shootings on the first day were, there was still the possibility that they would be containable.
The shop was a sea of cornflower blues and shocking reds, mellow naturals and pastels and mysterious blacks.
It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist.
It revealed a disgusting and shocking obsession with sexual perversion involving young female children.
It is shocking, but it is also a very human and personal story of a highly successful, well-adjusted young woman who had everything to live for.
The clank of our umbrellas as we hook them round the coat stand is shocking, like something clinking on a Church floor during prayer.
The list of events, local and national, that have conspired against the tourist industry is shocking.
The corruption scandal has been deeply shocking many ordinary party members.
So he would go to children and try and worm these names out of them in a way which is deeply shocking to me.
The ignorance towards the HIV issue in India that she exposes is both shocking and disturbing.
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Well, the new ident for the show has been revealed, and it's shocking different.
Fifteen years ago, the thought of cameras everywhere was shocking and abhorrent.
Even with its rationally designed economic plan, the country has neighborhoods that are in shocking poverty.
The game provided 2 out of 3 shocking goals, an unpredicted defeat and a fitting end to a superb FA Cup Campaign.
Bill becomes Shirleen, complete with a shocking blond wig, and Jack turns into a scary sci-fi cowboy waving a plastic ray gun.
Slowly gathering up all her baggage, Mercedes muttered incoherently a number of rather shocking French curses.
The shocking scandal about corruption at the customs was rekindled two months ago, yet nobody from the contract's opposition had ever said a word.
The book includes many shocking revelations about the mayor's personal life.
They simply would not leak this shocking story about big lineup changes on their own accord.
Playful and gory, the cartoonish paintings of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist for The Ramones, are every bit as shocking as their creator.
It was shocking to find out that the rape by Beebe was actually the last one of the night.
As a lapsed Mississippian, one of the most shocking to me regarded his visit with Jefferson Davis down at Davis' home in Biloxi.
But if Portnoy is himself our satirist, he is merely shocking the bourgeoisie in rather conventional ways.
Fifteen years ago a film as violent as Texas chainsaw 3D would be considered shocking.
Many people experience a shocking wake-up call when they find themselves in hospital and realise how much their misuse of substances has damaged their health.
Vieira absolved any individuals of blame for the shocking defensive display in Munich, but revealed his frustration at yet another European campaign that could be thrown away.
Seen on the glossy racks of a record store it's genuinely shocking.
I would have been delighted to shock any confirmation hearing with explicit and shocking stories.
Day after day, the shocking images have been plastered all over the media.
Of course, the statistics of that division are shocking, and of course the rich countries gang together in the G8 to make sure the division continues.
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If you feel really strongly that my opinions are shocking or wrong-headed, you could perfectly well publish them with an appropriate editorial disclaimer.
An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons.
How do you exclude Game of Thrones, when it produced the most shocking TV moment of the year with the Red Wedding?
Luhning, in contrast, starts out as likably mild-mannered and awkward, so that the final frustrated explosion of his repressed feelings is unexpected and shocking.
Violent lilacs, shocking pinks and hot crimson, matching the steamy temperature, mingled with more sombre beige and cream, as the ladies rose to the fashion challenge.
It has scenes of animals being forcibly fed arrack, non-stop beating to accelerate their pace during the race and other shocking images from the muddy tracks.
One shocking scene shows street children assaulting a wino and gleefully rolling him down the stairs, punishment for his spiritual and physical corruption.
Stay tuned for more exciting truths about cats and dogs, such as the shocking reality behind hairball consumption and what really goes on in the litter box!
There's loadsa claret, and it mashes the face up something shocking, but the brain gets jarred around less, so you are less likely to end up a cabbage.
As if this weren't shocking enough, garnett went on to marry Bunny and to have four children with him.
As a side note, James and gilbert being forced to hug it out might be the most shocking twist in this entire soap opera.
It's shocking the way they let some of these foreign ships run down.
To feel such venom coming at you is so shocking it takes your breath away.
There are shocking charges tonight that more than a dozen motel owners in Arizona have been turning their rooms into safe houses for illegal aliens.
Again and again, journalists and TV reporters have gone undercover to show the shocking misogyny of sharia courts.
After his shocking split from the white-power movement he was born into, 24-year-old Derek Black shied away from the media.
But in a shocking turn of events, wrestling got eight of 14 votes and the heave-ho.
That my current hometown of Washington hasn't gnawed its way into this rating is a bit shocking, considering the ample avoirdupois on the streets of your nation's capital.
When that failed, leading firefighter Tom Warnock, who directed the operation, got the rescue boat to manoeuvre closer in the hope of shocking her into moving out of the silt.
And suicide is just one of the many shocking 4chan spectacles, which range from bullying to stripping to killing pets on camera.
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From lack of talent to utter indiscipline, the team has suffered on many fronts and the slide has been marked by a shocking indifference among the players.
While shocking in its inclusiveness, the focus on privacy tools is not at all surprising to security experts.
The italics are Hoberman's, but the words would be shocking in any typeface.
To an outsider the banter, the seeming indifference to the awful things being done to the patient in this room in the cause of health, are shocking.
The film's segues into the seedier side of Austria are always appropriately shocking, and Erika's steadfast resolve in these environments is an utterly jarring anachronism.
At home, he remains focused on decreasing Brazil's shocking inequality.
I'd expected to see looted shops, broken glass, and a lot of mess, but it really was shocking to see the Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war-dead, daubed with graffiti.
While this sequence was probably inserted to appeal to the male audience of a sexploitation picture, it is much more than unfulfilled sexual fantasy or shocking stock footage.
The drama has been heavily trailered on the main channels, focusing on the shocking behaviour of one of the younger detectives, but there is more to it than that.
The gratuitous killing was the beginning of a shocking train of events that 13 years later has led her to Yorkshire in search of a new and better life.
And the smaltz is shocking, we had to shave our whole bodies after the screening because we'd never have been able to wash to the cheese out of our hair.
A shocking statistic among many is that, on average, one person dies of malaria there every 30 seconds.
I can't remember who brought it up, probably me, being the sucker for punishment that I am, but we spoke about the other weekend, and my shocking behaviour therein.
Judging from the response of our viewers, they found it shocking.
Such shocking behavior is unheard of in a Japanese classroom.
And it is very shocking, but it's also hilarious in some sense.
There is some really shocking and disgusting stuff in this book.
Tournament officials conceded that the event could be cancelled entirely in the aftermath of the shocking atrocities that have sent shock waves across the world.
But he's only just made the shocking revelation that he's gay.
Waking up to the shocking news, however, most ended up staying home.
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A recent Amnesty survey presented even more shocking statistics.
It was certainly a piece of shocking news in the business arena.
Three Sunday tabloids today make separate and equally shocking claims.
Last week Germany announced truly shocking unemployment figures.
The comments were a shocking dose of reality for graduating senior marly Faherty.
The shocking abuse saw Nigella, 53, leave Scott's restaurant in Mayfair in floods of tears.
The band did not have many members, but they sho were shocking!
The treatment, which essentially involves shocking the brain with electricity, was very effective in tackling depression, she and her husband were told.
On this occasion she was wearing shocking pink hot pants and cowboy boots.
Flowers of shocking pink seem poised to burst out of the canvas.
Over a glass of lemon tea in her office-cum-playroom, decorated in shocking pink and blue, I took a look at what true success has brought to this shy, retiring individual.
The vessel, painted in royal blue with white wheelhouse and just a touch of shocking pink on top, is currently moored in the channel at Rosses Point.
More likely this is just some more short-sighted moral crusading leading into what is likely to be a shocking defeat for the current government at this year's election.
This misperception makes books like yours seem more shocking than the tale may have actually been.
The shocking weather of the last two weeks has held up the cutting of turf as the banks are saturated and machines are not able to travel without damaging spreading grounds.
There is an amount of mordant humour surrounding the shocking murders.
Last year I came back again and found, to my dismay and disappointment, a shabby, untidy and uncared for cluster of poorly kept houses with shocking colour schemes.
We're permitted to wear mufti on this rare occasion, but the absence of school uniform and the shocking appearance of colour still fails to cheer me up.
This is one example of shocking sleazoid cinema that has something profound to say about its subject, and it's the overall benchmark set by this film.
A shocking new biography reveals a brutal truth behind the fiction of v.s. Naipaul.
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In a society as race-crazy as ours, this sort of news is equal parts shocking and unsurprising.
They resort to doing shocking things to cover up this boringness.
The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
I've been through some of the brake shoe manufacturing facilities in China and India and it's absolutely shocking, the level of asbestos exposure the workers have there.
The news was shocking to the people who knew penner and his then-wife Lisa Dillman.
Anyone who was around at that time but not directly involved in the madness can remember where they were and what they were doing when the shocking news broke.
But when Idol darling Pia suffered a shocking upset weeks later, the panel regretted saving Abrams.
Then came some more shocking photos and an apology of sorts on Thursday.
Mr Spaul was approaching junction seven on the southbound carriageway of the motorway in his metallic blue car when the shocking incident occurred.
It is beyond belief, and it is shocking that someone who makes claims of professionalism would lower himself to this level.
And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare.
But after watching it again for the first time in 30 years, Williams has changed his mind and revealed he is plotting a shocking sequel, with plenty of murderous revenge.
But wait, Ross reveals another shocking secret of the capitalist cabal.
It's been three nights since my mother wanted to give me a heart attack with incredibly shocking news that she and Mr Wu were suddenly going on a honeymoon to Bali.
Despite these shocking cases, the overwhelming majority of straights serve with distinction and deserve America's gratitude for defending democracy.
The discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in the last century led to the shocking realisation that humans have been creating art for over 30,000 years.
Needing a quick drink after our shocking experience, we repaired to Garavan's and discoursed sapiently before the Merc had to get home to her indoors with the rolling pin.
She had a sickening feeling of true flying for a moment before the shocking cold and utterly claustrophobic feeling of submersion in water enveloped her.
While the building has made headlines for its cost overruns, it is a little shocking to think that some money couldn't be spent on local artisans.
Incredibly, this shocking misdemeanour endeared him to thousands of hormonally charged schoolgirls, and made him a pin-up in offices around the country.
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At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
Even more shocking than their aggrandizement of linguistic power is their evident ignorance of how English, the language of pounds and pennies, dollars and cents, works.
To such as these the everyday language of the factory workers will sound shocking, and their general behaviour appear coarse and vulgar, but it is not so in reality.
We'd walk down to Ojai Avenue, stopping at Bill Baker's Bakery for bread, at the drugstore for a candy bar for me and, for my grandmother, face powder in a shocking pink jar.
The case was highlighted as a shocking report called Handle with Care was published, revealing increasing numbers of exotic pets being ill-treated.
Kay's suggestion, while neither shocking nor groundbreaking, leaves several questions unanswered and fails to overcome the insufficiencies of the homiletics he critiques.
The shocking reality is that he became a consequential president, an extremely important president, and one who might even be called a transformative president.
When first proposed a generation ago, the theory of continental drift and plate tectonics was one of the most shocking scientific ideas of its day.
If that were so, it would be a shocking injustice to a flannelled gentleman who, by all accounts, played his cricket with immeasurable grace and infinite style.
That planning permission has been granted for some sizeable modern structure on the back of the old Stubbs' ironmongers shop in Fossgate is shocking.
Which was more shocking, that it happened or that it was covered up?
I kept crashing in the emergency room and they had to keep shocking me.
What makes the hedge fund pay packages all the more shocking is that hedge funds are a source of the grumbling about CEO compensation.
Party-loving pop star Tulisa, 25, is on song in Ibiza in a daringly cut monokini in shocking bright pink.
Ten more celebrities uncover their unknown, and sometimes shocking, family histories as this geneology show returns.
The news comes as a shocking list revealed Ireland's randiest towns and villages.
Giving it to the 84-year-old Wajda is a move as gallant as it is shocking.
Her pea-brain and her shocking inability to answer even the simplest question would have resulted in even more ridicule.
The amorality of this masterpiece ensures that it remains one of the most shocking and compelling of operas.
This was a buffet of misplaced passes and shocking technique, clumsiness and dimwittedness.

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