Sentence examples for general horror from inspiring English sources

We were reduced to the point of insanity from the general horror and fear of... war.

The slave leader's death became the subject of general horror and indignation throughout liberal Europe.

She fled from the general horror inflicted on India's poor young women, in search of a better life.

But if it isn't possible to bemoan the general horror at the same time as respecting a particular legal process, we are in a terrible mess.

Not even the audience's appreciation of Sheen's skills, nor their indulgence of Frostie's advanced years, could conceal the general horror at this navel-gazing.

Indeed it seems that this profound and lonely man was under a compulsion to make every great alteration in his life a matter for remorse, for the incursion of a general horror into the particular life.

The Mets played a game that reminded nobody of the general horrors that have taken place in recent Septembers and all of last year.

According to David Cronenberg's epochal Videodrome, there's nothing more dangerous than "a philosophy", an adage that applies to life in general and horror cinema in particular.

It's a silly and predictable trope, but it also speaks to general, subliminal horror that surrounds the concept of teenaged sex, and specifically that of the virginal teenage girl.

Schools across the country observed a minute of silence for the victims on Tuesday morning, a gesture that also seemed aimed at emphasizing the general sense of horror about the attacks.

In fact, the pictures were just part of the aggressive coverage of the cult murders by Uganda's two papers, The New Vision and The Monitor, and their coverage has mirrored Ugandans' general reaction: shock, horror, a search for blame, along with an ample measure of "What will the world think of Uganda now?" That last thought is predictable.