Sentence examples for jolt of terror from inspiring English sources
Banquo's ghost causes a jolt of terror by stalking onstage wearing a full-face leather mask, his corporeality all the more striking since we seem to be in the realm of one man's "horrible imaginings".
With such a stressful presidential election looming ahead, the last thing many of us require is an artificial jolt of terror ― and it's not utterly without consequence politically, either.
He knows that what we don't see scares us more than what we do see, and he uses some of the simplest, oldest resources of cinema -- reverse cuts, swift tracking shots, chattering cellos and screeching violins -- to induce prickles of dread and jolts of terror.
You touch the pedal, and the thing jolts forward – a wide grin or a grimace of terror is the likely result.
Yet the new drills -- which gained yet another jolt of urgency with this week's terror alerts focused on landmark buildings in the city -- will continue to put heavy emphasis on what the real estate industry is calling "invacuations".
But studies suggest that between twenty and thirty per cent of returning veterans suffer, to varying degrees, from post-traumatic stress disorder, a mental-health condition triggered by some type of terror, or a traumatic brain injury, which occurs when the brain is jolted so violently that it collides with the inside of the skull, causing psychological damage.
Photograph by Zhang Lang/Color China Photo/AP On Friday night, as one American city went to bed, getting its first good night of sleep after a week of terror and tragedy, the Chinese city of Ya'an, in the province of Sichuan, was jolted awake by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
By Jiayang Fan April 21, 2013 On Friday night, as one American city went to bed, getting its first good night of sleep after a week of terror and tragedy, the Chinese city of Ya'an, in the province of Sichuan, was jolted awake by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
Theirs are tears of terror.
DENIAL A Memoir of Terror.
