#shocking

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#basic #day #decline #each #economic

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#combined #donated #every #prior #shockingly

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. ↗

— John Scott

#atrocity #capable #deceit #immense #love

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#pop #shocking #state

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#amnesty #attacked #considering #deal #government

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#audience #bit #did #doing #entire

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#big #big thing #how #just #kind

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

#days #glimpse #god #goes #knows

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational