But even as she makes plans to escape, the novel hurtles toward its shocking denouement - and its equally shocking postscript.

Portraits of his maturity drew comparisons with equally shocking works by Courbet, Titian and Picasso, the feelings exposed registering as both brash and profound.

Other appetizers can be equally shocking: calamari, for instance.

Ms. Benhabyles tells an equally shocking, if in some ways radically different, story about another woman, Nawal Fathi.

It was equally shocking to see who was already here.

Equally shocking are the interviews of friendly old Japanese veterans about their World War II atrocities.

I just heard details of a third attack, equally shocking and disturbing.

The synergy of its canny packaging as a book written expressly for Hollywood production was equally shocking at the time.

Equally shocking are the texts of anti-Hungarian graffiti.

The truth of what happened after the Croat surrender at Bleiburg, although equally shocking, is rather more complex.