visibly shaken/shocked/upset etc• After his Bolton wandering had turned into a rout, some of his staff were visibly shaken.• Manager Graham Taylor, already facing a barrage of criticism for his teamselections and matchstrategies, was visibly shocked.• Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.• As the minutes of silence and confusionunfolded, the crusheased and a visibly shakenband were allowed back onstage.• Her parents, visibly upset, decided to allow her to calm down and not to disturb her.• As he spoke he was still visibly shaken: I let her have it.• Wayne Gretzky, visibly shaken, skated over to check on his wife during a 10-minute delay in the game.• He gets visibly upset when talking about the transplants, saying they needlessly subject children to harrowing side effects.