Sentence examples for horror overcame from inspiring English sources

In Stoker's Dracula (1897), Harker is overwhelmed in Dracula's castle – "the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious" – leaving the Count to carry him to bed.

Closure is the overcoming of horror.

She finds her power not in overcoming the horror of her situation but, in a way, accepting it".

Luckily, my interest in black holes was deep enough to overcome the horror of imagining how a human body would be deformed while falling into a black hole.

He once said he "was overcome with horror when I noticed that the world in which I was besotted was disappearing".

Today that shakiness adds a sense of how much it took to overcome the horror and guide the city through the day.

Anyone who walked around the city yesterday could have no doubt that New York would overcome the horror that was worse than any it had ever experienced.

Beatrice Cècaro, another researcher, proposes that the families of the victims, overcome by horror, renounced vengeance and instead rededicated a chapel that stood next door to the murder site — the same chapel in which Gesualdo and Maria d'Avalos had been married.

Today, they are in Northern Iraq, providing safe spaces, job training, and psychosocial support for women struggling to overcome the horror and trauma of war.

While some become crippled and destroyed by the horrors of war, Baggi overcame, devoting his life to music and the pursuit of happiness.

But the question these many months later remains: Will Newtown be indelibly etched into the American psyche as the site of an almost unspeakable shooting, or will it be remembered as a town with the fortitude and ability to overcome a horror and come together in the face of extreme tragedy?