Sentence examples for imaginary horror from inspiring English sources

Lustfaust – supposedly – had once come up with a concept album for an imaginary horror film made in America in the 1970s.

And the mysterious single footprint he sees in the sand - not a pair, just the one - is both a real and imaginary horror that sends him into hiding for years.

In an attempt to "create a soundtrack to an imaginary horror film about the supernatural", they took their equipment to the bottom of a ship moored at Embankment, where they soaked up the atmosphere provided by perpetual damp and the constant sound of water.

But they don't all merely contemplate an imaginary horror – the film It Happened Here, for instance, used research on collaboration in the Channel Islands and footage of British fascists to make a point against the smugness of postwar England, outlining just how easily and quietly its population could have collaborated.

A year ago, Donald Trump devoted his Inaugural Address to enumerating the largely imaginary horrors of American life; on Tuesday, in his first State of the Union address, he boasted of keeping danger at bay and emphasized the need for ever greater protection, particularly against the "open borders [that] have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities".

When I read that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will not allow his abysmal 3-13 basketeaml toam to succumb to the darkness and tank for better odds in the draft lottery, I clutched my imaginary pearls in horror.

I just hadn't realized our horror over "imaginary pregnancies" was simply an extension of this mentality too.

As late as 1982, the Evening Standard felt comfortable running a cartoon of an imaginary film poster, advertising "the ultimate in psychopathic horror – THE IRISH".

"But there is nothing imaginary, unfortunately, in the little world of prison horrors that one of his generals created in the cruelest depths of Saddam's Iraq".

Alex Connolly, the 10-year-old boy who shares narrative duties with his psychiatrist in Carolyn Jess-Cooke's startling novel, THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS (Delacorte, $26), is quite insistent on these points: he isn't crazy, he hasn't watched too many horror movies, and he doesn't have an imaginary friend.

Instead of fleeing from the horrors of the real into the safety of the imaginary, Beauvoir takes up her responsibility as an author to expose and confront realities that the state would rather hide.