Perhaps it's because the psychological climate has been so shot through with the terror engendered by life in a tenaciously administered police state that every word, every gesture, every intonation and every glance is saturated with significance.
Some critics say the notion of wolves restoring Yellowstone by dint of the terror they engender is a great story that has captured people's imagination.
The hope of the terrorist is that the sense of terror these acts engender will induce the population to pressure political leaders toward a specific political end.
Expectations could not have been higher yesterday when the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced eight designs chosen by a 13-member jury to memorialize those lost to terror, and to engender hope while bearing witness to evil.
He killed simply because the more terror he could engender in the survivors, the easier they were to control.
ANYONE intimately acquianted with computer hardware will in all likelihood have experienced the terror and rage engendered by a hard-drive failure.
VENICE — Mira Nair's film "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," which opened the 69th Venice International Film Festival, is a refreshing contrast to the movies so far engendered by the war on terror in that the central protagonist is a Pakistani Muslim.
Instead he has made a point of moving with the times, bringing his pessimistic vision to bear on such matters as post-Soviet gangster capitalism, the wrongdoings of multinationals in the developing world and the lawlessness and cruelty engendered by the "war on terror".
So the debate about torture largely engendered by the "war on terror" has revived interest in the credentials of moral absolutism, although much about the nature and types of absolutism remain in need of clarification.
But the sore point they return to again and again - the emotional centre of C's enterprise - is the personal dishonour he feels as a result of the lawlessness and cruelty engendered by "the so-called war on terror".
But the terror that the outside world so frequently engenders can be neutralized — by YouTube videos of dachshund puppies, Facebook updates from "friends" I do not know, Instagrammed chronicles of exotic meals I am too timid to ever try and too cheap to ever pay for, the Twitter wisdom of @KimKierkegaardashian, not to mention that one Tumblr about how dads are the original hipsters.
