Sentence examples for flash of horror from inspiring English sources
She delivers a flash of horror and disgust after a sordid post-pub fumble with Byrne by the canal, when she matter-of-factly flicks the semen off her slimy hand directly at the lens: a nightmarish glimpse of hell.
When a hilariously bungling teacher explains, rather too casually, that the sun is going to die, the flash of horror on Max's face indicates that he understands that the sun won't be the only one to go.
What is, however, intriguing about Never Let Me Go is the way that the medical police state is imagined to be so entrenched, so invisibly embedded in this tatty, provincial fantasy-England that there is no flash of horror or vertigo when the secret is revealed.
For me, the number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is so indelibly bound up in association with that event that I can't manage to hear the number mentioned - no matter what the specific context - without a momentary, familiar, almost banal flash of horror.
Surreal elements creep in, even flashes of horror — though there's always a sense of humor.
As he became more alert, he said, he felt a heavy weight bearing down on his knees, and he began to remember, in vivid flashes of horror.
Flashes of horror intrude into these calmer narrative waters: the apple- cheeked Serbian woman casually shot by Šehić's unit; the Bosnian comrade later castrated by Serbian paramilitaries; the sight of his childhood house torched, the hometown "a festival of ruins".
The secret purpose which the government have assigned to them is not revealed with the flash of drama, horror, or vertigo that it might have in conventional sci-fi treatments.
In a flash, a look of horror crumples the features of Danai Gurira, who plays Abigail, a character she invented while studying acting at New York University.
The brief look of horror that flashes across the newsreel wife's face when her husband jokes about turning their "baseball team" into a "football team" speaks louder than words.
I see it as a book of horror photographs: little flashes of violence and cruelty.
