Sentence examples for mere horror from inspiring English sources

Yet if this is a mere horror film, it isn't a very good one.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster together are the subject of art; the doctor alone is mere science journalism, and the monster alone mere horror.

Even the semi-formal pre-execution portraits of inmates at the Tuol Sleng death camp, bizarrely ordered by the Khmer Rouge and taken by a teenage photographer, contain a power that goes beyond mere horror.

Schlozman, who entertained a small but enthusiastic crowd at Shriver Hall earlier this month as part of the annual Fall Fest celebration at Johns Hopkins, is the author of The Zombie Autopsies, a strikingly realistic work of fiction that makes you wonder if a zombie apocalypse is more than mere horror genre fantasy.

Once ranked as mere splatter horror (a label possibly derived from "Scanners," his 1981 opus about exploding human heads), his studies of man's rational yet futile efforts to measure or control dark impulses -- like his latest, "A Dangerous Method" -- have grown more subtle and character driven.

Instead, there are mere suggestions of horror, such as newsreel footage or when Paul drives out to trade favours with the leader of the Interahamwe in Kigali.

Are you going to outrace it or are you going to try to deal with it?" Perhaps the scariest houses aren't the ones that serve as a mere setting for horror, as in "The Exorcist" or "The Others," but those that are actively malevolent: houses that seem to possess their own sense of agency.

Houla's hundred-odd dead may offer a mere shiver of horror to deadened and bewildered onlookers, and statistically may represent only a fraction of the mounting casualties — Syria's number of dead is calculated by the U.N. to be over ten thousand, but there may well be a thousand or so more, depending on who is doing the counting.

There's a catastrophic McGuffin motivating the action and a catastrophic backstory sustaining it, but even these potential disasters are resolutely and comprehensively earthbound, belonging not to outer space or to supernatural spectres but only to the grim extremes of practical politics — and even these dangers loom as mere possibilities of horror, in no need of depiction.

There's a catastrophic McGuffin motivating the action and a catastrophic backstory sustaining it, but even these potential disasters are resolutely and comprehensively earthbound, belonging not to outer space or to supernatural spectres but only to the grim extremes of practical politics—and even these dangers loom as mere possibilities of horror, in no need of depiction.

(Moore) 'WALK THE MOUNTAIN' Jude Narita's one-woman show "Walk the Mountain," about the hellish effects of the Vietnam War, offers nuanced accounts rather than a mere litany of horrors.