Sentence examples for fearsome death from inspiring English sources

They atone for any wrongs that would have incurred the four fearsome death penalties imposed in the age of the old Temple: stoning, burning, beheading and strangulation.

He also argues, in Pros tous, that easily memorized, abbreviated formulations of the cardinal maxims are useful, and he gives us (IV 9 14) the pithiest formulation of Epicurean tenets, the 'Fourfold Drug' (tetrapharmakos logos): 'god is not fearsome, death not frightening, the good easily got, the bad easily endured'.

But it sounded every bit the fearsome death machine the press had forewarned as I lay awake next to my girlfriend at 1 am, listening to rain thunder down on the roof and wondering if I really should have insisted we get the hell out of town.

Rose encounters fearsome deaths and injuries, poverty and much, much more.

The book lays out the social and cultural forces that contributed to the rise of Spiritualism -- fearsome childhood death rates, science's undermining of religion, rising urbanization and the restricted options open to women, the ones who most frequently became mediums.

Where the face would have been was a fearsome charcoal death mask, the mouth frozen open in a wide, silent scream, the teeth huge and sneering like a skeleton's because the lips were gone; the sunken eyes were also open, showing only blank whites.

There might be a fearsome skull (the death's head, or totenkopf) grinning on his cap, but Colonel Landa has us at hallo.

These government units developed a fearsome international reputation for their death squad activities.

Mexico's attorney general said today that the country's largest drug gang remained strong despite the arrests of more than 2,000 of its members, including its operations chief, and the death of its fearsome enforcer.

And there was not only one Wall, there were two: there was nothing more imaginatively fearsome than 'der Todestreifen' – the Death Strip between inner and outer walls – where my teenage mind pictured desperate hopefuls running from spotlights and dodging machine-gun fire only to be hunted down and torn apart by vicious German Shepherds.

Even death loses its fearsome grip, for one realizes that life and death are equally a part of the transformation of nature.