Sentence examples for predictable horror from inspiring English sources

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French businesses have reacted with predictable horror, and the government has put a proposed law on hold.

As Mr Brown himself has argued, the danger is more analogous to the cold war than to the appalling but fairly predictable horror of the Blitz.

While the quiet-quiet-BANG shocks of "cattle-prod" cinema continue to scare up big bucks in a wearyingly predictable horror market, how terrific to find a crowd-pleasing chiller that wants to do more than make you jump – to move your heart and your head, rather than just your body.

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The arrival over the past decade of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not classified as Jewish by the rabbis has added new poignancy to the legal problems.Mr Barak's proposals, which would mean a measure at least of disestablishment, triggered a predictable howl of horror from the Orthodox.

Predictable predictions?

Though they share the odd tale ("The Monkey's Paw" – how predictable these anthologies are), Horror Stories is a better, beefier bet and includes two great favourites of mine – Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo" and MR James's "Count Magnus".

"We set that up structurally, to give the most disempowered workers the dirtiest and most morally questionable jobs and then it's a little bit hypocritical to act with shock and horror when predictable outcomes occur".

So the fact that his sons, in turn, would be writers, that one of them might even write horror, is therefore wholly predictable to King.

Horror has become a predictable genre and these days, maggoty skulls can leap out of wardrobes all they want, and we merely yawn.

Ophelia's growing confusion, increasing horror, and [now] predictable mental breakdown were beautifully staged by Ms. Thomas in a manner whose context and movement in relation to Hamlet's bizarre behavior helped to clarify Ophelia's inability to grasp how her life could crumble to pieces before her.

"I like horror films but this was predictable, boring, with an awful script and acting, and with some really nasty violence".

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