The trailer for the new Smurfs film prompts the shocking thought: have they always been a bit blue?

The sudden and shocking thought had arrived in both minds at the same instant: it could all be over.

Well, sir, it is a very shocking thought.

It's a shocking thought, but your client was smart enough to make enough money to hire you and to afford to build a building.

As he approached the outer kernel shield he was struck by a shocking thought.

I was turning this shocking thought around in my mind when Carolee came into the backyard with a lopsided Novocain smile.

His mind froze at a shocking thought: what would happen to Jiro?

At first, I had the shocking thought that always-somber-and-sober Elroy was drunk.

Suddenly she forgot her quarrel with him, at the shocking thought that she might somehow lose him.

It was a shocking thought to each of them and they wanted to hear him answer the question directly.