Sentence examples for in stark terror from inspiring English sources

After Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face twisted in stark terror, Holmes is called upon to protect his heir, Sir Henry Baskerville.

It is, I think, more important than anything to be in the same psychic space as one's children and more than once, I have been in the park and looked up from my phone in stark terror, realizing that, if only for a matter of seconds, I have effectively disappeared while watching them.

It's hardly a secret that the GOP party establishment cringed in stark terror at the thought of Donald Trump as its standard bearer.

While millions cringe in stark terror at the prospect of a Trump nomination and White House occupancy, Cruz is being put forth by much of the GOP establishment as the respectable alternative to Trump.

Ms. Messud conveys Maria's wartime experiences with quiet assurance: the grim realities of survival in a famine-struck countryside, the stark terror of escaping from German guards during a nighttime bombing raid, the fears and uncertainties of being interned in a Displaced Persons camp.

Stark terror washes over every cell in my body.

Whitehead's misogyny is chillingly believable, as is Hinkis's progress from business-as-usual to stark terror.

In the most violent of circumstances, as "The Conduct of Life" indelibly dramatizes, aching tenderness can reside beside stark terror.

Anselm also taught a piety of stark terror of hell to drill the point home.

There can be stark terror as well as incredible excitement and anticipation.

The author of such classic Cold War treatises as "The Delicate Balance of Terror," Albert Wohlstetter is remembered for advocating an aggressive brinksmanship that stood in stark contrast with what he saw as weak and indecisive policies of Soviet containment.