The idea shocked the people we wanted to shock--my mother, for example.

And if- the unexpected idea shocked him like a static discharge - he could bear to trade his son away.

A year ago the very idea would have shocked her.

The idea had shocked Bob, a conventional man if there ever was one.

But I think she knew the idea of killing wouldn't shock me or upset me.

He could not imagine a world outside it; and the idea of loving Gormenghast would have shocked him.

Not that she had ever considered it - the very idea still shocked her!

The idea shocked me and stopped the Zealot in mid-phrase.

The idea of the two-seater being used for combat shocked him.

No, she was not startled, but the idea shocked her early convictions.