Sentence examples for a source of terror from inspiring English sources

Only in Hollywood could such a notion be a source of terror.

The dark old Marlborough house backing on to a graveyard was a source of terror, particularly the cellar, which haunted his dreams all his life.

For Karl Ove, the possibility that he harbors the same anger as his father is a source of terror and, above all, shame.

Crime was falling before Jan . 12 and Haiti's police, once a source of terror, had become the nation's most trusted institution.

This can be initially for no more than a moment, but gradually for longer, until such feelings can live inside them without being a source of terror.

Karloff's Monster is alternately childlike in his curiosity and bestial in his rage; he lurches between being a source of terror and an object of pity.

It's a circumstance that one can imagine as a source of constant terror — Who is the stranger in my room?

To the heroic zillionaire stars of those sports, the whole thing is at best an optional extra, often a distraction, and at worst a source of holy terror.

He describes the physical onset of his symptoms as an "intense flickering" in his head, "as though a butterfly was trapped"; by the time he returned home, even a trip to the cornershop had become a source of paralysing terror.

Nature itself turns against the couple: animals (a fox who utters a couple of words as creatures do in fables, a miscarrying doe and a raven) and the very forest become a source of palpable terror.

Furthermore, a similarly conservative version of Shi'a Islam, developed under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, now rules Iran, also a source of funding terror.