Sentence examples for a terrifying event from inspiring English sources

I found my son's birth to be a terrifying event.

Over a hundred years ago, the French philosopher and physician Pierre Janet (1859-1947) argued that the emotional shock, which accompanies a terrifying event can result in dissociation.

But while there is no shortage of expert advice, there also is no one formula for helping children cope with such a terrifying event in American history.

"The seizures come on when fever is high," Dr. Nelson said, "and it is a terrifying event for the families to have a young child convulse and then look as if they are dead.

He insists that this book is an argument for reform and concludes with a warning that, "like the reformations of the past, this will be a terrifying event, one that has already begun to engulf the world".

P.T.S.D. is precipitated by a terrifying event or situation — war, a car accident, rape, planes crashing into the World Trade Center — and is characterized by nightmares, flashbacks, and intrusive and uncontrollable thoughts, as well as by emotional detachment, numbness, jumpiness, anger, and avoidance.

Drawing life is a sharp, often darkly funny critique of what he sees as americas forfeiture of its sense of moral judgment, folded into his retelling of a singular, terrifying event: how he, on one morning in june of 1993, was nearly killed by a mail bomb sent to his office by the notorious unabomber.

During pregnancy week 17, the women reported whether they had been involved in or had experienced a dramatic and terrifying event at any time in their life.

2 Considering that FS occurs in otherwise healthy children, an episode of generalized tonic clonic convulsion represents an unfamiliar and terrifying event for most parents/caregivers.

As the story progresses, an overlapping and terrifying event befalls the family, and Liz's visions become more like clairvoyance, specific in nature and crucial to the actions that must be taken.

Reading Girl on a Plane, and experiencing first-hand the terrifying event of a terrorist plane-attack, made me hate planes even more, kept me reading on until the last page in one sitting, but still didn't really interest me in any way.