Sentence examples for mild horror from inspiring English sources

Being a turkey owner at this time of year means answering a lot of questions that are preceded by looks of alarm and mild horror.

I don't need money.'" To the mild horror of her parents, Claire turned her back on the world of brain biology to pursue Grimes full time.

The DVD of Kosminsky's Wuthering Heights timidly warns that the film "contains mild horror" – but could anything be less mild than the crazed, haunted novel?

More than mild horror can be expected this time around, since the film expects to capitalise on the adolescent infatuation with vampires incited by the bloodsucking romances of Stephenie Meyer.

Smooth ensemble acting builds up to the discovery that a gigantic condemned man (Mr. Duncan) is a prisoner with very special abilities, which gives the film its mixture of religious overtones and mild horror.

'I feel a mild horror about what goes on in the wet darkness between the shells of bivalves,' he wrote in 1989, the year he became food critic of American Vogue.

By Susan Orlean November 24, 2010 Being a turkey owner at this time of year means answering a lot of questions that are preceded by looks of alarm and mild horror.

Mild humor (bacalao soaked for dinner in the toilet tank) gives way to mild horror (a woman bends over another's baby with "the posture of certain all-consuming insects"), which in turn yields to mild philosophizing (on the "admiration that denizens of the rural world feel for folding things").

The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of… Being a turkey owner at this time of year means answering a lot of questions that are preceded by looks of alarm and mild horror.… Every corny thing that's said about living with nature — being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons — happens to be true.

I can't guess what further mild horrors are to come, but I wouldn't rule out negative equity.

They hardly ever do real pathos on Peep Show because they're too busy making us recoil in mild, comic horror but this was deftly handled.