shock-value

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

So the media puts out shock-value news, aiming to instill fear.

Holly Sidell: Fear and Fashion Holly Sidell 2011

Posts are endlessly laced with outrageous sarcasm and inside jokes, shock-value is often of paramount concern, and raunchy anecdotes are wildly commonplace.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

The play may not possess the visceral shock-value of previous LaBute work but it has more humanity and confirms the validity of Bacon's observation that: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Reasons to be Pretty – review 2011

In an age of shock-value opera stagings, it has become common to stuff the veiled implications of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw into one-dimensional little-shop-of-horrors productions.

Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Posts are endlessly laced with outrageous sarcasm and inside jokes, shock-value is often of paramount concern, and raunchy anecdotes are wildly commonplace.

Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest Michael Tracey 2010

Another change of note is that we've finally reached a point in time where celebrities coming out of the closet thankfully no longer have the shock-value that they once had.

Steven Stamstad: Achieving Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint Steven Stamstad 2010

This movie is a bad idea to start off with and I feel that this will be a shock-value mess.

Oliver Stone's W Completes Casting, Starts Filming « FirstShowing.net 2008