Sentence examples for outright horror from inspiring English sources

A question about whether he had tried haggis was met with a look of outright horror.

Her own fears, she confided, ranged from vicarious preperformance jitters to outright horror.

Obviously, when something as beloved as Teletubbies is remade, the only sensible reaction is outright horror.

I have not considered outright horror movies but I would happily include so-called "dark fantasy" fare such as the Twilight films or Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.

Starting as comedy with a fake Q&A session involving an actor talking about a play we haven't seen, it soon descends into outright horror.

Directed by Mikael Hafstrom with old-fashioned restraint and a stylish use of intense close-ups, "1408" is more psychological thriller than outright horror.

Park's other films take this obsession to stomach-churning extremes, suffused as they are with violence and brutality, but The Handmaiden eschews outright gore for other horrors.

Dennis doesn't like the idea of just buying a car outright ("To my ever increasing horror, Arnie pulled his wallet out … ").

Outsiders seem to feel that British people either worship the royals, or seethe with hatred for them, when the reality seems to range from mild affection to outright indifference, morphing into resigned horror when royal saturation looks imminent, as with That Bloody Wedding.

Though modern horror can't outright be Silent Hill, it can't deny those psychological roots.

Many of us watched in horror as latent resentments, outright racism and homophobia bubbled to the top of the national political scene.