"horrifying event" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is shocking, dreadful, or horrifying. For example: "The terrorist attack was a horrifying event that will be remembered for generations to come."
We must imagine Manet poring over a succession of newspaper stories of a distant, horrifying event, hoping for clarification and definitive truth, as we do now, and either not finding it or disbelieving it, as we do now.
Instead of merely creating new jihadists in the Muslim world, as the too Obama Administration's too indiscriminately expanded program has done, this horrifying event created a jihadist in the Marine world, turning a stalwart American hero into an angry avenger, and a newly found Muslim one at that.
There was at least one adult at home when the horrifying event occurred, according to police.
BOSTON, MA – Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) isn't limited to soldiers or witnesses of a horrifying event.
This strategy worked very well in another horrifying event — the slaughter of 10 Belgian peacekeepers in Rwanda in 1994.
She's not a very eloquent speaker, is she?" "My dear Watson, the woman just witnessed a horrifying event all by herself.
There are secular versions of this same desire to interpret horrifying events.
It was early December 2001, the horrifying events of Sept. 11 still close behind.
These are similarly horrifying events and — at least the first few times they are tried — may lead to many fatalities.
President Obama described the government's actions in Hama as "horrifying" events that "demonstrate the true character of the Syrian regime".
Dozens of survivors crowded into the courtroom to hear the prosecution outline the horrifying events of Europe's worst conflict since the Second World War.
