The phrase "acute horror" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong, intense feeling of fear or dread, often in a literary or dramatic context.
Example: "As the shadows crept closer, a sense of acute horror washed over her, paralyzing her with fear."
Alternatives: "intense fear" or "profound terror."
Women have suffered acute horrors — as the documentary "Lumo," to be shown tonight on PBS, quietly details — a consequence not only of the lawlessness that has plagued Congo but also of a cultural foundation that sanctions the violent treatment of women under any circumstance.
" Portrait of an American Christ, 2006 The Children's Ministry, 2006 Claire Morgan Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1980 Claire lives in Newcastle upon Tyne "I find that there can be great power in objects or scenarios that simultaneously illustrate acute beauty and horror.
As these sources continue to proliferate, so does our exposure to acute gore and horror. .
Although the lives of the families in that once quiet Connecticut community have been irrevocably altered, the acute shock and horror of an elementary school massacre is already waning, slowly evolving into a renewed battle to bring rationality into the relationship between Americans and their guns.
A lot of mainstream accounts of Japan's bombings, like those in John Hersey's Hiroshima, sort of soft-pedal the body horror that acute radiation poisoning causes, but they are nevertheless full of preteen nightmare fodder.
O'Nan has inherited from King an acute sensitivity to the vein of horror beneath even the most prosaic settings.
The brilliance of this version lies in the tension between the decorousness of the occasion and the dire nature of the revelations; and the horror is even more acute because of the heightened absurdity.
Although Marseille has recovered from the 1990s horror years of industrial decline and acute unemployment, joblessness still exceeds the national average.
The indifference with which Eugene experienced the acute phase of the disease was replaced with horror as he watched his body break down.
