Sentence examples for public horror from inspiring English sources

He will say: "The Damian McBride emails, the public horror at some of the exposure of MPs' expenses claims and an erosion of confidence in politics generally, requires a line to be drawn and the restoration of the antennae.

Her tone, measured yet distraught, is that of a witness who has journeyed, consciously if not willingly, to the heart of private and, more momentously, public horror in order to bring us back the bad news.

As the country approaches the anniversary of the killings at Columbine, which crystallized public horror over rampage killings, this distinction is crucial to understanding, and even preventing, school shootings, many experts say.

The collision of those two value systems can be extremely jarring: most obviously the widespread public horror at the level of executive payoffs and the fees paid to its biggest stars.

The public horror of puberty the skin, the hair, the features growing at different rates, the awful not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman fashion choices – resonated with many of us and we still guard her for it.

And in response to the refugee crisis across Europe, and the public horror over the death of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, he approved only a miserly 4,000 entries per year.

In the spring of 1966, when their trial opened at Chester Crown Court, the press fed off the public's horror.

In fact, McKinley shared the public's horror of Spanish tyranny in Cuba but his memory was scarred by the slaughter he had witnessed during the civil war at Antietam, the bloodiest day in America's military history.

On the one hand, child abductions and killings are monstrous acts; on the other, for the public, the horror often dissipates into cliché or into the banality of children's faces on milk cartons.

After the stock market crash, Senate hearings led by a special counsel, Ferdinand Pecora, were opened, and the American public heard horror stories about insider trading and stock manipulation by Wall Street insiders.

You'll sooner meet the Second Coming than a Torontonian without a public transit horror story.