Sentence examples for horrifying encounter from inspiring English sources

"It was a horrifying encounter," says Scott W. Simmons, vice president at Crist Associates, an executive-placement agency in Chicago.

Anyone who has been horrified at encountering their glum, ill-prepared countenance in a shop window will know what he means.

The artists' new Colorado Springs girlfriend was horrified by the encounter, primarily because it denoted something more significant than a mere pie-in-the-face.

In my 25 years of practice I had never encountered so horrifying a story.

His friends are always trying to reel him in, and we are meant to think of him as lovably silly, even though he is horrified by his encounters with washerwomen and all those belonging to the less than plummy ranks.

I'm not shocked by what I see, but I'm horrified by the ignorance I encounter.

Human rights workers are often horrified at some of the cases they encounter and the callousness of the traffickers.

Narrator Matt - "I come from the school of thought where a dad's absence is something to be counted on" - is forced by Joanie's plight to abandon his previous role as absent-minded parent and is horrified by what he encounters.

This means that most of the meals I encounter abroad – even those that tend to horrify my travel companions – don't really faze me all that much.

"I'm beyond horrified to hear his story," Spacey wrote, claiming that he had no memory of the encounter more than three decades later.

Henry has been a professor at Queens College and N.Y.U.; horrified by the vulgarity he encountered there, he moved to Oxford in pursuit of a refined aestheticism.