Modifying Another Word

• profoundly: To many of her first readers she was profoundly shocking.

• truly: The first thing you notice, is the truly shocking picture quality!

• deeply: It has also been a deeply shocking experience to learn the political nature of the way science operates.

• absolutely: Jim said: " The condition of some of the animals in Southport I found absolutely shocking.

• quite: I was quite shocking to see my own name appear in print like that.

• utterly: But in Hannes ' terrible dreams about the past, what is also utterly shocking is the sense of betrayal.

Infinitive complement

• discover: She's pregnant... It can be shocking to discover that your daughter is pregnant.

• hear: It's so shocking to hear Calvin Klein want you for their new campaign.

• think: Shocking to think that this dude is/was England's rep ref for WC games.

• see: I was quite shocking to see my own name appear in print like that.

Modifies a noun

• revelation: The shocking revelation that more than 30,000 Iraqi civilians may have been killed in this same period was also featured.

• indictment: The facts are not in dispute and provide a shocking indictment of the brutality of the profit system.

• £11.50: We've just dropped the price of the album to a shocking £11.50 making us the cheapest place to get it.

• climax: His ingenious plot grabs you from its opening pages right up to its shocking climax.

• truth: The shocking truth is: these diets do not work in the long-term!

• statistic: The... Here's a shocking statistic for you.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It is what makes devastation seem not so shocking.

• avoid: Fill the can the night before and allow it to come to room temperature, to avoid shocking the plants.

• consider: This part of the novel was considered very shocking on publication.

• find: This film contains pictures of dead bodies, which you may find shocking.