Sentence examples for primal horror from inspiring English sources

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I think there is a primal horror in us.

Where most people see little beyond primal horror when they get very low on air, Mark sees bronchial plugs and carbon-dioxide buildup.

The primal horror of Mexico's murder epidemic makes it difficult, perhaps even distasteful, to construe the cartel's butchery as a rational advancement of coherent business aims.

There's also the primal horror of being chased in an unprotected zone by a swarm of big mean kids with an attitude and a grudge, and the fundamentally liberating idea of escaping to the big bad city — with, of course, an evil genius running the whole show.

Meanwhile, Bertolt's initial wariness at the prospect of having a rubberised approximation of his face glued to a collection of aluminium body parts gradually morphs into primal horror, then spluttering embarrassment, then sadness and, eventually, a sort of gentle existential bemusement ("Why?").

There's also the primal horror of being chased in an unprotected zone by a swarm of big mean kids with an attitude and a grudge, and the fundamentally liberating idea of escaping to the big bad city with, of course, an evil genius running the whole show.

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To me, now, they indicate the opposite: evidence you faced up to the primal horrors that are the meat and potatoes of the weepie.

The character of Slender Man embodied a primal, archetypal horror that the members of the forums found compelling.

It may not even be possible to exorcise the more primal sense of horror.

His last credited work was "Primal Rage," a 1988 horror film directed by his son Vittorio.

The public spectacle is a place where the deepest fears, from the breaking of primal taboos to the horrors of war, are given free rein in the imagination.

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