Sentence examples for horrific manner from inspiring English sources

It destroys people's lives and communities in the most horrific manner imaginable.

After describing the horrific manner of Edmund's death, the Passio continued the story.

The times at which your mouth, nose, eyes, ears and skin were assaulted by the world around us in an unspeakably horrific manner?

Occasionally, elephant seals would be taken for their oil in an even more horrific manner: when they opened their mouths to bellow, their hunters would toss rocks in and then begin to stab them with long lances.

The colonists were contemptuous of the Indians, who they regarded as uncivilized and satanic heathens, and the fragile early peace between Native Americans and the early settlers would soon unravel in a horrific manner in what is now Mystic Connecticut, where the Pequot tribe was celebrating their own Thanksgiving, the green corn festival.

A statement from the group read: "Last week, an innocent drummer, Lee Rigby, lost his life at the hands of two vile and demented human beings in the most horrific and heinous manner ever witnessed on the streets of Britain.

The book manages to switch between hilarious and horrific in a startling manner.

But it followed all manner of horrific executions – by beheading, stoning and being thrown off high buildings – charted in "snuff" videos coming out of Syria and Iraq; they generate expressions of horror, if little expectation of the atrocities ending.

I thought: he's either very friendly or very thorough…" This is how Dickinson recounts what turned into a horrific ordeal – in the manner of a jaunty pub anecdote.

The split-second, almost subliminal scene of some sexy girls dancing in little skirts inserted into a montage of violent mayhem, presumably so we'll all start to subconsciously become sexually aroused by the thought of death, and end up committing all manner of horrific atrocities because it's the only way we think we'll ever receive any form of love.

Stranded in a remote, pastoral community, which views medicine with suspicion and hospitals with dread, Bulgakov's hero Dr Vladimir Bomgard finds himself taking charge in all manner of medical emergencies, from horrific amputations to outbreaks of venereal disease.