Words are utterly inadequate to express our heartbreak, sorrow and outrage at this shocking and senseless act of terrorism.

Despite a shocking act of violence that brings his story to its bitter conclusion, the author plays a good clean game.

This shocking act sets the plot in motion.

This shocking act of self-effacement paves the way for a film suffused by the boy's loss.

This beautiful, finely wrought woman, so graceful and delicate, had been marked by a shocking act of violence.

He was building his own 10,000-square-foot home, a shocking act for someone not even a Communist Party member.

It is to Nicholas a shocking act of violence, a terrible omen of what is to come.

If Gesualdo had not committed such shocking acts, we might not pay such close attention to his music.

We must remain permanently vigilant and must show greater resoluteness and solidarity when it comes to these shocking acts.

These are deeply shocking acts, which we condemn, and we would like measures to be put in place to prevent such acts from happening again.