Sentence examples for a note of horror from inspiring English sources
A note of horror should be struck, at any rate.
I did not want this article to end on a note of horror, but it is what happened.
At the play's frenzied climax, a note of horror is struck as these neatly dressed bourgeois men and women assail one another with fistfuls of nonsense phrases.
To me, this intense insect commotion adds a note of horror, but Marks insists that the interaction between insects and corpses is one of the crucial areas of his research.
For instance, having a home that, as Emily Stone put it, "runs the risk of looking like Mickey Rourke's apartment in '9 1/2 Weeks,' " a disturbingly chilly vision of modernity — or, she added, a note of horror in her voice, "The Jetsons".
He added a balancing note of horror: a dog eats the remains of an animal that Abel has sacrificed on an altar.
The color schemes are wretched, with the ballerinas' shoes — shocking pink or vermilion — adding a note of "Red Shoes" horror to a festive situation.
In fact, they have a lot in common with Butoh: the naked body, the primitivism, the slowness, the note of horror.
** That coda is the authentic note of horror: not just Kees's own distaste but the Hamlet-like horror that we have all felt, quite suddenly, at the prospect of drowning in society — even if it is a society that has welcomed us, and in which we should profitably swim.
When I called the proprietor of a fancy little haven of imported French, Swiss and Italian lingerie on Madison Avenue in the 70s and inquired as to his available stock, he could barely hide the note of horror in his voice, insisting that he no longer carried anything of this antiquated ilk.
