Sentence examples for less horrifying from inspiring English sources

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Yet the experience of talking to him was, apparently, less horrifying.

Photography and sentimentality are inextricably linked because both are a way of processing the difficulties and horrors of reality in a way that makes them feel less horrifying and difficult.

"Less horrifying in appearance," he told his friend Philip Larkin, but with "one of the most protesting faces I ever saw".

Any didacticism in the message behind the story - that honour killings are no less horrifying for being accepted custom in rural Pakistan - is cancelled out by the magnificence of Ahmad's storytelling.

Invoking George W. Bush's notion of pre-emptive war, he said that Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney who had pursued the case against D.S.K., had pioneered a new concept, scarcely less horrifying, of "pre-emptive penalty".

These gloomy fanatics saw the world as no less horrifying and cruel than did their archenemies, but their response to the whole mess was a more or less permanent wailing.

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Ukrainians are no less horrified by the disaster than others.

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was no less horrified by Hamilton's legal legerdemain.

Those of us who believe otherwise are not any less horrified by violent crimes.

Similarly, people would now be less horrified at the idea of Sir Alex Ferguson's phone being hacked into if it had been revealed that the Manchester United manager was taking bungs.

I found myself less horrified by his music taste than intrigued, not least by the suggestion in one episode that he might have once been a Numanoid: he certainly seemed to know the bass part from Music for Chameleons by heart.

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