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.
