Sentence examples for dreadful scenes from inspiring English sources

"We have all been troubled by dreadful scenes of migration from Syria," said Farrar.

As the terrorists run freely though the hotel, we witness what the authors describe as "a spinning zoetrope of dreadful scenes".

As the waters gradually recede, dreadful scenes are unfolded to the horrified view of the survivors, most of whom are weak and fainting from lack of food and shelter.

In dreadful scenes reminiscent of the shooting down of an American Black Hawk helicopter in the city in 1993, the bodies of two dead soldiers were dragged through the streets before being set alight by chanting mobs.The violence has increased dramatically since the arrival of a Ugandan peacekeeping force.

Working extensively with a hand-held camera and functioning by his own admission almost as a documentarian, Spielberg has had the nerve to simply let those dreadful scenes play, and as a consequence has created as indelible a picture of the Holocaust as fiction film allows.

All the Japanese soldiers there had been long dead; it was a dreadful scene.

The problem with the opening, however, is that it's a perfectly dreadful scene.

Her eye was caught by one of the classical lady's attendants who was depicted running away from the dreadful scene in alarm.

Here he got a closer look at "all the phenomena of that dreadful scene", and eventually acknowledged the urgency of a rescue mission – only to be choked by fumes on the beach.

To reach St. Olave, Hart Street, whose uncompromisingly grim churchyard was supposedly the inspiration for the final dreadful scene of Dickens's "Bleak House," we passed the modern bravura of Richard Rogers's skyscraper for Lloyd's of London.

This sense of fast-rising unease is answered by a dreadful scene as the men, some dozen and a half in number, rapidly swarm into the house and attack the two women inside, Yone (Nobuko Otowa, Mr. Shindo's wife) and her daughter-in-law, Shige (Kiwako Taichi).