shock therapy

But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.

Like an electric shock, the well-known chords of the Tragala aroused his hearers—every one crowded round the singer.

The violent shock dazed Malcolm for a second, but all might yet have been well were it not for an unavoidable accident.

She was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.

He feared to shock her by the sudden mention of the Senora's death; yet that would harm her less than continued anxiety.

Were he a young man, they could save him by cutting off his leg high up, but as it is he would not stand the shock.