Sentence examples for horrific end from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, Oedipus comes to a horrific end, blind and exiled.

But whereas Mr. Noé's film spools backward to show the ineluctable sequence of events that leads to a horrific end, "Breaking the Habit" suggests the opposite.

Just a few hundred miles away from the chairman's deathbed, thousands of ordinary Chinese were about to meet a sudden and much more horrific end.

It's a well-researched, continuously exciting story that sustains the tension up to its horrific end, when all the conspirators finish up shot or hanged with piano wire.

The Onion spoof news service reports how a school district in the US has decided to present both "Global warming and the Biblical Armageddon" as legitimate theories about how the world will come to a horrific end.

Instead, Schultz shoots him, and is promptly shot; Django engages the slave owner's whole retinue in a shootout that leads to his capture and seems to doom him to a horrific end.

Foer ends up telling several stories, though all have the same horrific ending.

"The Wicker Man has quite a lot of songs in it, jokey bits, sex, and a very horrific ending.

In contrast to their reports, "The Eyes of Willie McGee" does not crackle with rage, despite its horrific ending: on May 8 , 1951 McGee was electrocuted in the local courthouse, leaving an odor of burned flesh in the room.

Ms. Leigh manages to evoke the bitterness and disappointment of Mrs. Rowland, while leaving unplumbed the play's layers of injury, outrage, bereavement, betrayal and utter despair, and Mr. Murphy's adaptation undercuts the play's pointedly horrific ending.

It's a horrific ending to an advert that seems to delight in the notion of food waste, and all it makes me want to do is watch Mr Burns sing See My Vest again.