Advertisers use many different techniques to get people to notice there adverts, often using deliberately shocking or provocative images.

Deliberately shocking, to be sure, these stories, in a translation from the French by Alison Anderson, can also be quite cathartic.

Q called the album "loud, ugly, and deliberately shocking", awarding it three out of five stars.

The animal is misshapen and unattractive -somewhat like the deliberately shocking images Mr. Maro includes in his dances.

And some, after seeing the deliberately shocking artwork, do.

Jerome Robbins's ballet about female insects who devour their male partners after mating is deliberately shocking, and it was danced with venom.

Donohue was being deliberately shocking.

Regularly set upon as vulgar, crude and deliberately shocking, he was never best friends with the British film critics.

It is intended to be deliberately shocking, Wilson states that he "does not want its ideas to seem any less startling than they are."

Crowley was colourful, eccentric, flamboyant, and deliberately shocking, always a keen adventurer and womanizer.