Sentence examples for especially horrific from inspiring English sources

Iranian judges scarcely ever handed down stoning verdicts, but the situation seemed to require an especially horrific punishment.

It is especially horrific when it comes at the hands of those who are said to be the world's "peacekeepers".

He has said that he supports capital punishment in cases where the crime is especially horrific, but worried that the penalty is being meted out unfairly.

It's the closeness of that Cambodian generation, the familiarity of their tastes and attitudes, that makes their fate seem especially horrific.

In March 2002, following an especially horrific suicide bombing that killed 30 people, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield to reoccupy the West Bank and parts of Gaza.

Yet as devastating as the situation is for Syrians, the toll is especially horrific for the youngest who remain in the country, in particular those cut off from care, separated from their families, or lacking food.

This helps him make sense of combat, especially its horrific sounds and the smells of its aftermath.

Clearly, he was serious about confronting the scientific and intellectual revolutions of the 20th century, the legacy of two world wars, communism, fascism, and Nazism, and especially the horrific Holocaust.

Yet, since Memorial Day is all about remembering and since repetition is "the mother of all learning," repetition can only help us remember longer and better -- especially the horrific cost of war.. So, this Memorial Day I would like to repeat -- in full this time -- the emoting, haunting words of Civil War-era orator, Robert Green Ingersoll, a Colonel in the Union Army.

It is all too easy for us in the media to report only bad news, especially after the horrific events of two days ago.

In his own carefully reasoned way, he is not about to take a unilateral position even, or especially, about such horrific events.