Sentence examples for increasing horror from inspiring English sources

"I was sitting at my desk and watching it all with increasing horror.

"The West looks at Pakistan with increasing horror but continues to insist that this is called the pain of evolving democracy," said Mr. Tareen, the politician and businessman.

Readers root for Anna and watch Emma with increasing horror, because Emma forces us to confront the human capacity for existential, and therefore insatiable, emptiness.

Dennis doesn't like the idea of just buying a car outright ("To my ever increasing horror, Arnie pulled his wallet out … ").

An Australian film-maker who had been living in the US for many years, she watched Canberra's asylum seeker policy unfold with increasing horror.

Reflecting the father's increasing horror and fear, the letters from the front grimly describe episodes virtually identical to those enacted by the children.

In this descent towards an ever-increasing horror, which the reader intuits but can't quite make out until the very end, Kaddish takes on the ancient role of the Fool travelling through the hellish landscape that his elders and betters have created, towards a conclusion foretold that he nevertheless strives to avoid.

Building ever more destructive weapons simply increases the horror of war, not the certainty of ending it.

These are often too frenetically edited and murkily lighted to be truly scary, and the higher dose of gore infecteds chopped up by helicopter blades; bodies exploding in blood as bullets fly into them is not enough to increase the horror.

To increase the horror aspect of the game, the enemies were designed to moan and emit terrifying sounds even before being spotted by the player.

"Gentlemen," she wrote, "I have read 'The Lottery' three times with increasing shock and horror.… Cannot decide whether [Jackson] is a genius or a female and more subtle version of Orson Welles".