Sentence examples for horrific combat from inspiring English sources

Looking back on the carnage, the narrator realises that the horrific combat that he randomly survived will only be a curtain-raiser to a much more ghastly subsequent war in which his own children will have to suffer, too.

Several years ago, I worked with a patient who had severe post traumatic stress disorder caused by a horrific combat incident.

Here, Junger has expanded on the article's thesis: PTSD is caused not just by horrific combat experience but also by the solitude and lack of shared purpose veterans feel on returning to civilian life.

Horrific trench combat reminiscent of World War I has claimed the lives of between 75,000 and 100,000 conscripts.

The Bloody Angle entered American lore for the horrific close-in combat.

Homer concentrates on the great quarrel between the Greek hero Achilles and the Greek general Agamemnon, the horrific battles, and the combat between the Trojan prince Hector and Achilles.

single-handedly killed a bill that would have helped combat the horrific levels of violence directed at Native women.

This helps him make sense of combat, especially its horrific sounds and the smells of its aftermath.

The shooting came at a tricky moment for Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who, as the Washington Post reported, was in the midst of an aggressive public campaign to combat homelessness when a horrific episode of gun violence got in the way.

Following the example set by Steven Spielberg in "Saving Private Ryan," Randall Wallace, who wrote and directed this square, effective combat epic, plunges us into the horrific chaos of close-range fighting.

The ironic thing is that war is horrific, and yet it often brings those in combat into deeply intimate contact with one another in ways that normal, everyday life simply can't.