"horrifying truth" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a fact or reality that is upsetting, shocking, or distressing. For example, "The horrifying truth about the situation is that many people will suffer."
DxE's investigations, which reveal the horrifying truth behind even the highest standards in animal welfare, show that a truly effective framework for animal protection must (like Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) see things from a different perspective - a victim-centered perspective.
On Tuesday, a stunned neighborhood learned that these were glimpses of a horrifying truth.
"And someday, you will see her in a movie about your life and discover the horrifying truth that she is better at being you than you are".
Late in the novel, the narrator's new girlfriend, a doctor at a filthy, inadequate local hospital, learns the horrifying truth about the disappearance of her beloved brother.
Neo is inducted into the horrifying truth: that human beings are unknowingly being force-fed this virtual fantasy while their bodies are held captive in gelatinous pods by bug-eyed machines.
Considering the lineup of mothers and daughters, the novel's title seems obvious (if ungainly): it's a reference to the somewhat horrifying truth that we can't escape becoming our mothers.
He told the truth -- horrifying truths -- but did it in ways that lost face for China and for his teachers and institution.
As one friend put it, the government's cardboard theatre has fallen away, exposing Mexico's horrifying truths.
Both reveal horrifying truths.
Like every major media circus that relates to LGBTQ and especially to trans people, it's profoundly mixed -- yay for some respectful exposure, boo for focusing again on a wealthy white person to the exclusion of some horrifying truths about the experiences of trans people of colour, especially trans women.
And why not, it's not a crime to ignore harsh truths, horrifying situations.
