I had to grin. Morris was shocked and horrified. I’d shown him a brand new sin.

I was stunned with outrage.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.

He wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

It was shocking, deeply shocking.

Scared out of his seven senses.

He was thunderstruck to learn that Senator Sumner privately denounced the course, regarded Mr. Adams as betraying the principles of his life, and broke off relations with his family.

I am shocked by this wicked crime.

He was so full of disgust, disgust at the world and at himself, that he could not weep.

When I was informed by the police they had decided to charge me with treason ... I was in a state of shock. That I have been found guilty of treason shocks me the more.

Once, when he was applauded by rascals, he remarked, "I am horribly afraid I have done something wrong."

Survivalists. Gordon felt a wave of revulsion.

My children and I were profoundly devastated by those allegations, And I was torn about where my absolute morals lie.

Graham always used to say that I was shocked when he came out. That implies some sort of moral objection. Untrue. I was not ‘shocked’, I was very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very surprised.