The phrase "atrocious death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a death that is extremely cruel, brutal, or shocking in nature.
Example: "The news of the atrocious death of the innocent victim sent shockwaves through the community."
Alternatives: "horrific death" or "gruesome death".
Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.
On the anniversary of Bruno's execution, Cardinal Sodano, the second-ranking cleric in the Catholic Church, called the incident an "atrocious death".
Imagine how his family feels knowing that there was no legitimate investigation following his atrocious death, that no one was disciplined or reprimanded, and that no wrongdoing has been admitted after more than a year of litigation.
What struck me and disoriented and frightened me – Solaris is still a film that seduces and at the same time scares me, more than any thriller or horror film – was the woman's atrocious deaths and implacable resurrections, her obstinate persistence, the fierce and at the same time self-destructive will not to be definitively annihilated by the beloved man even as pure memory.
"The atrocious and humiliating deaths to which so many of them were subjected left indelible marks on the collective psyche and destroyed thousands of years of traditional healing wisdom; we were forced to view their work as dangerous and irrational or suffer similar violence ourselves". .
Uncooperative peasants, termed kulaks, were arrested en masse, being shot, exiled, or absorbed into the rapidly expanding network of Stalinist concentration camps and worked to death under atrocious conditions.
Uncooperative peasants, termed kulaks, were arrested en masse and shot, exiled, or absorbed into the rapidly expanding network of Stalinist concentration camps and worked to death under atrocious conditions.
Many of the victims were killed in atrocious circumstances, beaten to death with clubs and hammers, crowded into Orthodox churches that were then set alight, or forced into makeshift concentration camps where they died of malnutrition, or from deliberately introduced diseases, or from the nightly beatings carried out by the Ustashe.
Missing are direct references to James Dean, though the rebel is present everywhere; what seems in atrocious bad taste, "The Death of Natalie Wood" may well be a mourning for lost love.
And all their deaths were atrocious.
In '03, the BBC also published a piece titled "Flashback: 1991 Gulf War" where they state the following: "Nobody knows how many civilians died in the war, but estimates for civilian deaths as a direct result of the war range from 100,000 to 200,000". Whether the figure is in the 100,000s or the 200,000s, it is an atrocious, inexcusable number of deaths.
