Sentence examples for intimate horror from inspiring English sources

Anyone familiar with depression will recognise the intimate horror of a mind colonised by it.

But Hitchcock's own intensity, his feel for the intimate horror and fear within a marriage, is beginning to show through.

While Dundy was fulfilling her own artistic destiny and enduring her own intimate horror, Clarke was travelling a similar path.

The intimate horror of the guerrilla war here in Iraq seems most vivid when seen through the sights of a sniper's rifle.

But Mungiu creates the queasy possibility that the attempted rape itself is part of a conspiracy of violence driven by envy or revenge – or even that the universe itself is punishing him, with intimate horror, for sexual misdeeds.

He writes like a club patron who insinuates himself into the company of the musicians between sets, extracts their confidences, observes scenes of intimate horror, and then passes them along — using first names and nicknames — as if to flaunt his faux-insider status.

They're very funny movies — self-mocking in their self-pity — and the intimate horrors and failures they portray are the stuff of his artistic glory.

Money and sex are out front in Lena Dunham's series "Girls" (premièring April 15th, on HBO), and both are the source of intimate horrors, embarrassment, self-abasement, confusion, and self-deception.

In "Shoes," Weber looks at intimate horrors at home, in a drama (based on a novel by Jane Addams) about a young shopgirl in Los Angeles named Eva Meyer (played by the sixteen-year-old Mary McLaren, Weber's discovery) who, with her job as a salesclerk in a five-and-ten, is the sole support for her family.

He unleashes a torrent of intimate horrors in the first five minutes of the first episode, during the sixtieth-birthday celebration of the Epp family matriarch, simply called Grandma (Luise Ullrich), at which a festive and drunken gathering devolves into a round of smacks and insults over an errant spray of champagne.

I wouldn't want to take anything away from Amour, because it is undeniably harrowing, an intimate, domestic horror movie of frightening impact.