Sentence examples for a true horror from inspiring English sources

A true horror film for the 1990s.

A true horror moment for selachaphobiacs and ichthyophobiacs.

A true horror, the crash of the ferry Andrew J. Barberi, which killed 11 people and injured dozens of others, did not occur until five years later.

That is a true horror story: one huge, sick hand, where fate sets up all the variables to make a knockout unavoidable.

"I said let me tell you a true horror story, and I rattled off what had happened to me at Medomsley.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson), 12 Years a Slave is a true horror story that sees an affluent black American, born free in New York state, kidnapped by slavers in 1841; he wakes up in bondage before being transported to the south where he's passed from master to master.

Rather than being a sentimental portrait of a man who doesn't like Christmas, this is an evocation of an unjust society – the true horror of Dickens's tale – and a powerful broadside against anyone who thinks there's no such thing as society.

The scene where Clay leaves a party at which they're showing a snuff movie is a masterful evocation of true horror; the erection visible in the pants of his friend as they walk to the car an image it is hard ever to shake.

By Robert Nathan The New Yorker, December 22, 1934 P. 16 A realization of the true horror of war is achieved by putting a skeleton enclosed in glass at the site of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The documents provide a window into the true horror of the massacre ― and of gun violence more generally.

When they are reunited in the evening's concluding scene with the knowledge that they may soon be separated forever, you feel a rush of anger and true horror for the events that have brought them to this point.