Ever since they strung me up by the neck I've been beyond shock, sir.

And that at a time when most residents here had believed themselves beyond further shock.

When the eight legs marched across my forehead I was already beyond shock.

He had thought he was almost beyond shock by now.

But before her stunned brain could move beyond shock into fear, she saw the faded, tattered red ribbon tied around its finger.

What the hijackers had done was precedent-setting in the savage department, but I had to get myself beyond shock.

Virginia was on her feet, beyond shock.

To begin with, you're in a state of collapse, beyond shock.

I was beyond being out of breath, beyond pain, beyond shock or surprise.

The memorial cannot be sunshine-and-light therapy to make current generations feel they have moved beyond grief and shock.