The phrase "a horrifying thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event, situation, or object that causes fear, shock, or disgust.
Example: "The news of the disaster was a horrifying thing that left the community in shock."
Alternatives: "a terrifying matter" or "an appalling occurrence".
This is a horrifying thing about life".
A horrifying thing, how vulnerable we are to rapture!
That's just a horrifying thing for them to think that they have a relative who has not got a roof over their head.
Before a tacked-on redemptive coda she ponders the implications of the Blake quotation, saying that eternity is a horrifying thing to contemplate: "I don't like things that go on and on".
And that's gonna be a horrifying thing for her.
The private prison complex is a horrifying thing," she added.
All I know is that it was the most horrifying thing that could happen to an innocent young woman".
Gough's first memory of Graves is of "this vast, horrifying thing leaning over my pram with a very nice great-aunt attached to it", but he was transfixed by the beauty and passion he found at the poet's home in Deià, Majorca, which he first visited as a 10 year old, seven years before the fateful summer of 1960.
Even a show like Friends, which had a lesbian couple -- if you had attractive actors playing gay characters, even if they weren't particularly convincing, just the fact that shiny, pretty people were playing gay characters, suddenly people could think, "Oh, a gay person doesn't have to be this horrifying thing".
He tried to use his language skills in other ways: "The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane.
On one level, it's wonderful to hear that this horrifying thing hasn't just happened to one of us, or a few of us, but seemingly to all of us," stand-up comedian Lane Moore told Bustle.
