Example Sentences

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Performing it is a way to combat the fear that, as Berger wrote, the things we are shocked by will come to seem like unshocking representatives of the “general human condition.”

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2018

The fuss generated by Taylor Swift’s really quite unshocking clip for Bad Blood and Rihanna’s really quite horrible one for Bitch Better Have My Money wasn’t just made up by the media.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2015

But rather than disclosing a shocking or surprising fact about Washington’s approach to relations between Eastern and Western Europe, the episode reinforces three very unshocking truths about the world of diplomacy.

From Time • Feb. 7, 2014

It’s actually thoroughly unshocking for this venerated organization to pull such a crass, insensitive move.

From Salon • May 30, 2012

The Poets and Players would soon find themselves oblig'd to restrain their licentious Conduct, reform the Theatre, and present to the Town, if not instructive, at least inoffensive and unshocking Diversions.

From Essay upon Wit by Addison, Joseph