Sentence examples for palpable terror from inspiring English sources

The reality that she might lose him becomes a palpable terror.

Mr. Adams croaked and giggled and clutched the microphone in palpable terror.

The daily threats, the uncertainty and palpable terror many face have overwhelmed even the pleas of Christian leaders not to abandon their historic place in a diverse Iraq.

We notice the shudder, the palpable terror, every time someone alludes to the possibility of a pregnancy that is already an unacknowledged reality.

Gone is the palpable terror of the original trio, who were genuinely terrified by the unexpected setups into which Myrick and Sánchez lured them.

Nature itself turns against the couple: animals (a fox who utters a couple of words as creatures do in fables, a miscarrying doe and a raven) and the very forest become a source of palpable terror.

A few of the Freudian flights feel overworked, but Rudkin is very good at imagining the process of Hitchcock's thinking, revealing the filmmaker's uncanny understanding of human nature and laying out the nuts and bolts of cinematic technique that make suspense and terror palpable to an audience in a comfy movie house.

If my terror was palpable despite only viewing what happened on video, how much terror must those poor kids have endured?

Watching Mr. Castile take his final breaths (in real time) was so compelling, the raw footage so unforgettable, and Ms. Reynold's pain and terror so palpable, that the unjust death of a single citizen was transformed from a local tragedy into a national moment of reflection.

In V.R., the terror is more palpable: a phantom pain shoots up your leg.

At a national commemoration in Central Hall, Westminster, the pain of memory – of the squalid ghettoes, the inhuman Nazi death camps, of starvation and terror – was almost palpable as the first of 70 candles around Britain was lit.