We feel a horror at deep asymmetries, but we get a little thrill out of slight asymmetries.
Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during the nineteen-forties felt a similar horror when, after waving goodbye to their neighbors, they received no recognition in return.
I felt a shudder of horror that hasn't really left me to this moment.
Besides, visiting artists often felt a grief and horror that doused any re-civilising zeal.
"When I noticed that I was moving back and forth a bit, I felt a twinge of horror that I had imbibed enough to get sloppy in the first half-hour of the party," said Caroline Miller, editorial director of the magazine.
She later wrote of the incident, "I felt a mixture of horror, embarrassment and incredible warmth towards my colleagues that they should think of doing this".
My life felt like a horror movie all over again.
'I feel a mild horror about what goes on in the wet darkness between the shells of bivalves,' he wrote in 1989, the year he became food critic of American Vogue.
And as I grasped it, I felt a minor sense of horror, as when you see a precious ring slip off a finger in slow motion and go down the drain while you are powerless to stop it.
"As a man described to me the traces of my makeup, a blemish on my chin, and other flaws in my appearance that I had convinced myself were too small to be noticeable," Witt writes, "I felt a unique experience of horror".
