Sentence examples for horribly convincing from inspiring English sources

Another family, in "Martha Marcy May Marlene," turned out to be a fake, but a horribly convincing one; it was in fact a cult, based at a quiet farmstead, its communal placidity enforced by rape.

It is one of Roman Polanski's most brilliant films: a deeply disturbing, horribly convincing psychological thriller that is also that rarest of things: a scary movie in which a woman is permitted to do the killing.

Above them is von Donnersmarck, shifting his fretful players around the city — his horribly convincing re-creation of a repressive world, ranging from the meagreness of Wiesler's lonely dinner (a tube of something red, squeezed onto a bowl of something white) to the unchanging nylon gray of his clothes.

The cleaners are only too visible, terrorised by their watchful supervisor, Perez, a horribly convincing study in bullying from George Lopez, a stand-up comic making a superb debut in a serious role.

The chief product (and it's a horribly convincing artefact) of the teenager's experiences is an invented religion: a horse-worship that combines sex and awe: sweaty flanks, big eyes, invented language, compulsive behaviour.

His fantasist and obscene caller, in "Happiness" (1998), Todd Solondz's parade of suburban repressives, was horribly convincing, and toadlike in his clamminess, but he bored even his therapist, and it may not be a film that many Hoffmanites, aside from the most devout, would revisit in a hurry.

My mind plays tricks on me, convincing that my roommate will hate me and that my classes will be horribly boring and that each day will begin at five in the morning.

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And although Bena loves their infant son, Little Ted, she's convinced that something is horribly wrong with him.

That body, which is overseeing golf's Games participation for the first time since 1904, has failed horribly in its remit either to convince players that Rio will be perfectly safe or to produce viable alternative plans.

At the ripe old age of 2 my daughter is convinced there is something horribly wrong with her mother.