Sentence examples for a terrifying spectacle from inspiring English sources

The locked mental wards of our hospitals present a terrifying spectacle of seriously disturbed patients shouting, yelping, gurning and shaking – I know, I've seen them.

And the film that turned their invention, the "cinématographe," into a terrifying spectacle, "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat," contains the definitive and enduring gesture of acknowledged mutual implication, the glance at the lens of the camera.

Nazi Germany produced its own brand of propaganda in the 1930s, the most striking being Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens (1936; Triumph of the Will), a terrifying spectacle of a huge Nazi rally that had in effect been staged for the film made about it.

A terrifying spectacle in every sense – and an image that sprung to mind unexpectedly this week in the wake of Chris Gayle's wondrously indolent high‑speed hundred for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Pune: the fastest hundred ever made in professional cricket and also surely the most notable innings ever played by a man who appears to be constantly on the verge of giggling.

No longer accessible for an exchange, the dying person offers those who loved him, the medical team who cared for him, the physicians who tried to save his life, a terrifying spectacle which confronts everyone with their doleful powerlessness.

As a bonus, if you have thousands of buddies willing to march, like these North Korean soldiers on parade, you'll be a terrifying spectacle.

He further expressed that David Yates "transmutes [the book] into a genuinely terrifying spectacle".

Being made into a show, a humiliating and terrifying spectacle, was part of the torment.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly described the film as, "A lush and terrifying spectacle of romantic doom.

I leapt from pretty high up into this mixture, and just walked into the media tent covered in it, the terrifying spectacle of a mud-and-wood man.

Besides, without the star power of Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor it's unlikely it would have been made at all, certainly not with a budget that allows such terrifying spectacle – the tsunami itself, and the devastation it wreaks – in the form of some incredibly realistic effects work.