Sentence examples for profound horror from inspiring English sources

France was plunged into profound horror and shock for the second time in 12 days when two men slit the throat of a priest as he was celebrating mass in a Normandy church on Tuesday morning.

That moment of understanding, the very instance when whites acknowledge the blunt truths that make their innocence no longer cute, let alone plausible, is what delivers profound horror — or sidesplitting laughs — in a movie as sharp as "Get Out".

There's more breadth and depth — more of a sense of history at large, of the intrinsic and profound horror of the practice and the experience of torture, and of the moral issues involved in political action — in that thirteen-minute sequence than in the whole of "Zero Dark Thirty".

There's more breadth and depth more of a sense of history at large, of the intrinsic and profound horror of the practice and the experience of torture, and of the moral issues involved in political action in that thirteen-minute sequence than in the whole of "Zero Dark Thirty".

The only relief came when we moved from profound horror to profound disquiet, such as when the former National Security Council Director for Libya at the White House, Gwenyth Todd, recalled watching an oil company's CEO who had come to ask them to lift the post-Lockerbie sanctions start crying when they refused.

The use of mundane, everyday household materials extends the metaphor of the banality of war, as the troupe transforms miniature sets into scenes of profound horror, all captured by a handheld camera and projected onto a large screen.

For art to be reborn after the profound horrors of World War II the canvas had to be tortured.

The Syrian debacle and Washington's caution – timidity, if you prefer – is a direct consequence with profound horrors inflicted on innocent Syrians, repercussions spreading wider by the day.

He told the judge that Michael felt "profound shame and horror" after the accident.

At the end of the day, there are no profound insights; just horror, and sadness, and grim amusement.

It is disturbing and engrossing, an adult game, not because of the bullets, but because of the profound and unsettling horror of the unexpected.