Sentence examples for horror of becoming from inspiring English sources

They bonded over their mutual interests in art, music and design — and their mutual horror of becoming the respectable suit-wearing drones their parents wanted them to be.

Their conclusions about America may determine whether Rolf Mowill-Larssen will have the pleasure of being remembered as a ­Chicken Little, or will experience the horror of becoming a prophet of atomic disaster.

He had a love-hate relationship with the drudgery of politics, joking in private about the horror of becoming party president knowing it was a stepping stone towards the leadership but also dreading the grind of meetings around the country.

Carnap, to be sure, was motivated by a horror of becoming embroiled in metaphysical disputation.

Here, as in others of Lovecraft later tales, cats embody the attraction to horror while, unlike the human protagonists, "never pursuing horror to the point of becoming horrible themselves".

There is a danger in laughing at cruelty — the risk of becoming hardened against horrors.

The Water Babies, the Reverend Charles Kingsley's 1862 novel about the young chimney sweep, Tom, who finds redemption from the horrors of his work by means of becoming an aquatic creature, is one of those perennial children's classics that is not so perennial any more.

Horror movies, stories and jokes reflect our deep-seated dread of becoming food for other forms of life : horror is the wormy corpse, vampires sucking blood and sci-fi monsters trying to eat humans ("Alien 1 and 2").

The horror is still fresh on his face as he recounts their experience of becoming displaced.

But his dream of becoming a film actor -- his roles in "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (1987) and "Horror High" (1988) notwithstanding -- eluded him.

Be careful of becoming overheated.