A student of Classical sculpture, Bernini possessed the unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism which was almost shocking.

It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much – just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging him on his chest is shocking and almost too much, which is the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place.

However, in a 2006 survey of British TV viewers, her behaviour on the show was voted the third " most shocking " TV chat show moment ever.

Also referring to the scene as a shocking moment, GameSpot suggested that the FMV sequence of Sephiroth appearing in front of the Nibelheim fire " might be one of the most recognizable cutscenes ever to grace video games.

Club, Zack Handlen called Deep Throat's death " a shocking moment, even when you know it's coming ", praising the " desperation " evident in Hardin's performance, although lamenting the " curse of continuity " that led to the character being quickly replaced with Steven Williams ' X. Ben Rawson-Jones, writing for Digital Spy, felt that Deep Throat's tenure on The X-Files was " arguably the show's peak ", and praised Hardin's acting in the role.

Val Werier, who was with the Trib for 35 years, said it was a shocking moment.

One day-during a simple fortune telling at school-Hitomi feels a magical pull, and in a shocking moment she is pulled from her body.

While many of the tracks were intended as background music, reviewers noted the emotional intensity of several tracks, especially " Aeris's Theme ", which plays during a moment described as " the most shocking moment in video games ," and has been described as the most memorable song from the album.

World Wrestling Entertainment refers to the match as " one of the most scandalous title changes of all time " and states that " shocking does not even adequately describe this moment ".

The routine mission goes horribly wrong and, in a moment that will be shocking to fans, the Jedi Master Yaddle is killed.

" They thought the ending, when Ned tries to baptize the children, was " nail-biting stuff ", and Maggie's second first-word was " a truly shocking moment ".

The shocking scene became the defining moment of not only the Rockets ' 1977-78 season ( a conference finals team the previous year, they collapsed into last place with a 28-54 record ), but also of two players ' professional careers.

Currently, a part of Algerian writers tends to be defined in a literature of shocking expression, due to the terrorism that occurred during the 1990s, the other party is defined in a different style of literature who staged an individualistic conception of the human adventure.

The police department compiled statistics showing that 50 % of the violent crime in Fort Worth occurred in the Acre, a shocking confirmation of long-held suspicions.

Greenwald maintains that it was her idea to have her head shaved, suggesting the idea to Vince McMahon months before the match occurred because she wanted to do something shocking for WrestleMania.

Meanwhile, a shocking development had occurred overnight.

Kloss's trademark was screaming expletives or shrieking a high pitched scream when something shocking occurred in a match, typically ruining the effect of the high spot.

Short Round breaks free and escapes back into the temple where he burns Indiana with a torch, shocking him out of the trance.

The history behind this comes from a postgame incident after the Third Round of the 1999 U. S. Open Cup, where Charleston pulled a shocking 4-3 extra time upset at home over D. C. A news report from then:

Penrose ’ s shocking conclusion, though, was that obtaining a flat universe without inflation is much more likely than with inflation – by a factor of 10 to the googol ( 10 to the 100 ) power !”

The defeat of the Imperial army by a relatively small Anglo-French military force ( outnumbered at least 10 to 1 by the Qing army ) coupled with the flight ( and subsequent death ) of the Emperor and the burning of the Summer Palace was a shocking blow to the once powerful Qing Dynasty.

His main American rivals were Samuel Reshevsky (+ 3 = 12-4 ); Herman Steiner (+ 21 = 8-4 ); Isaac Kashdan (+ 6 = 6-1 ); Albert Simonson (+ 6 = 1-1 ); Al Horowitz (+ 10 = 7-2 ); Arnold Denker (+ 7 = 7-6 ); Fred Reinfeld (+ 10 = 7-5 ); and Arthur Dake ( a shocking + 7 = 5-7, but three losses as a 16-year-old against Dake in his 20s ).

A shocking ambush in Sarobi, the district of Kabul Province they were responsible for patrolling, killed 10 French troops.

However he lost his world ranking and all his momentum in November 1991 when he dropped a shocking 10 round decision to club fighter Levi Billups who had a patchy 15 – 5 record.

In 2009, Travis Fickett from IGN rated this episode an 8. 3 out of 10, and concluded about it that " It's a bit shocking, perhaps offensive to some, but in the context of murdering mutants and five-assed monkeys created by Brando parodies in Hawaiian moo-moos – it all makes perfect sense.

After the injury of Cáceres, Zebina returned to starting XI, but Juventus also faced a landslide slip on their result, starting from shocking exit from 2009 – 10 UEFA Europa League by losing to Fulham.

Christopher T. Kontos ( born December 10, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former National Hockey League forward who is best known for his surprising 9 goals in 11 playoff games while he was a member of the Los Angeles Kings and his shocking franchise opening night 4 goal performance ( with the Tampa Bay Lightning ) against that season's Vezina Trophy winner Ed Belfour.

It has also been used in an ironic context for shocking or traumatic scenes, such as in Dawn of the Dead ( 2004 ) and Jarhead ( 2005 ).

She however made a shocking performance in the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, claiming her first Slam win and upsetting 20th seed Tatiana Golovin in the first round 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 7 – 5, before falling to Natalie Dechy 6 – 1, 6 – 4 in the third round.

Everyone, including the first reviews of the book, assumed Kant was the author ; when Kant cleared the confusion and openly praised the work and author, Fichte's reputation skyrocketed, as many intellectuals of the day were of the opinion that it was "... the most shocking and astonishing news ... nobody but Kant could have written this book.

" was conceited, not only about his own learning but also about the opinions held of him as commander both by the Galileans and by the Romans ; he was guilty of shocking duplicity at Jotapata, saving himself by sacrifice of his companions ; he was too naive to see how he stood condemned out of his own mouth for his conduct, and yet no words were too harsh when he was blackening his opponents ; and after landing, however involuntarily, in the Roman camp, he turned his captivity to his own advantage, and benefitted for the rest of his days from his change of side.

Resentment of David's presence by the locals slowly builds to a shocking climax when the mild-mannered academic is forced to defend his home.

The extraordinary potential of radio news showed itself in 1930, when CBS suddenly found itself with a live telephone connection to a prisoner called " The Deacon " who described, from the inside and in real time, a riot and conflagration at the Ohio State Penitentiary ; for CBS, it was " a shocking journalistic coup.

He ably juggles the various elements of the story and makes the violence seem even more shocking when it's played out on the fields of Amish denial.

Later that summer a shocking accusation is made: the Educational Testing Service calls into question the validity of their scores when it is discovered that similarities between errors are too high for pure chance, and the students are left to deal with the allegations ( along with the subsequent revoking of their scores ) in their own way.

The explicit violence of his first opera Punch and Judy – in which the murder of Judy by her husband is much more shocking when performed live on stage than by glove puppets in the classic British seaside entertainment – can easily be misinterpreted as a clue to the intention of his abstract music.

Meanwhile, Angie tells her girlfriends that she is seeing Flipper, shocking them when she tells them he is African American.

Thai language newspapers published the names of 100 women who claimed to have shared his bed, shocking the public when it was learnt how corrupt he had actually been.

In early strips, when he was simply " balding ", the Boss was very cruel and uncaring ( shocking people with electric belts or wanting them to work 178 hours a week, although there are only 168 hours in a week — he expected the employees ' families to contribute a few hours ).

The show has been repeated over the years and is seen as a classic piece very evocative of the era, though at first it was not well received in all quarters owing to its surprising, even shocking, imagery, in an age when songs were not generally accompanied by visuals for marketing purposes.

) Following the assassination, the opera house was closed until 1 November 1792, when it was opened again, which by some was considered shocking.

An undetermined amount of time after the two learn of their bond, their relationship undergoes a shocking set of circumstances during the Terra Prime episodes when Trip and T ' Pol learn that they have a child.

But this new cause is threatened when he learns a shocking truth about his rescuers from Second Earth.

On 19 May 2008, the dispute between Mahathir and Abdullah reached a " shocking " stage when Dr Mahathir, who had served as UMNO President for 22 years, announced that he was quitting the party after having lost confidence in Abdullah Badawi's leadership, and that he would only rejoin the party after Abdullah had stepped down as UMNO President and Prime Minister.

World XI, when a rather drunken man darted out toward the field naked, shocking the Australian and World XI players, halting play until he was spear tackled to the ground by field personnel.

In Costa Rica the word pachuco refers to a person who has manners that are socially unacceptable and often uses shocking language when speaking.

Fraser also criticized the " truly shocking " lack of improvement on First Nations reserves and also said " I actually think it ’ s quite tragic when you see that there is a population in this country that does not have the sort of basic services that Canadians take for granted .".

Another shocking revelation is that when Kate announces that Vlady is in possession of two Red Mercury bombs which upsets Frank when he realizes he was not informed of this earlier.

In the late 1950s, the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, but the idea of a teenager doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde and even shocking in 1957 when AIP released their horror film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, one of the studio's biggest hits.

On many occasions, she has used this to her advantage, such as shocking Connor with a stun gun and knocking out a suspicious lab assistant at Wolfram & Hart or in the third season in " That Old Gang of Mine " when she tricks Gunn's old gang into thinking she was going to kill Angel.