Sentence examples for an object of terror from inspiring English sources

The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror.

If it wants an object of stealthy terror, or a device that will prop up a shaky regime's domestic reputation, then a gun-type weapon is the most likely way to go.

Meg Armstrong argues that "exotic" bodies become subjected to aesthetic discourse in theories of the sublime, noting that Burke singles out the black female body as a special object of terror (Armstrong 1996).

We needn't call upon an angry god to make the sea an object of no small 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.

Instead, present medical classifications offer up a smorgasbord of disorders variously defined by the quality of nervousness, the object of terror, or its source.

I had to balance making the audience both the object of terror as well as agents for surviving it.

The title story, in which the moon comes down one night to investigate the "things that live in the darkness", was my object of terror.

This only works (unless you're experienced) if you see the sword wielding object of terror before he beats you down.

"It's an object of devotion, an object of worship".

But it is the war's visible threats, rather than mortality's veiled ones, that are Stein's subject and the object of her terror.