What happens next is stark and genuinely shocking, at least within the context of how movies usually treat so-called movie stars.
I'd done it and the moment the scales fell from my eyes was genuinely shocking.
Although the book is genuinely shocking, I think there's a complexity here that could inspire rich and meaningful discussion either in the classroom or at home.
Even here, in the face of what must have been a genuinely shocking event, her reaction had a theatricality about it.
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing.
Some critics expressed disappointment at the predictability of the main twist in the story regarding Alex's predicament, while others found it "genuinely shocking".
He is genuinely shocking in the scene where breezy banter with his wife abruptly shifts into stormy viciousness.
Many people find the implications of that genuinely shocking.
The scene contains a genuinely shocking revelation, but its power is in the starts and stops of indecisive love, fearful anger, timid commitment.
Read separately, some of the stories are genuinely shocking.