Sentence examples for rather horrific from inspiring English sources

On Wall Street, unlike a horror movie, not everyone meets a rather horrific demise.

It all sounds rather horrific (as evidenced by several documentary videos that are not for the faint of heart), but reportedly patients experience little bloodshed or pain despite the absence of even topical anesthesia.

Zero Hour: This one could be called a "study in horror" wherein a young child has made friends with an alien playmate and innocently wants her parents to meet her rather horrific friend so she heads upstairs to introduce the alien to her parents who are hiding in the attic.

I found the idea of getting every little white boy in America to go about sporting an African-American-skin cap to be rather horrific, and I think that 3 year-olds should not be encouraged to try to kill "b'ars" (Sarah Palin and I differ on that last point, and possibly on the first also)., but like I said: the 1950s were weird.

Although they always say that if you are demented, you don't notice it anyway and so on, that is a … to me, that a rather horrific thought.

Journalist and artist Samantha LeBas, responding to the 2015 cover, declared herself both a member of the comics industry and a rape survivor, and testified to her own experience: "I am left wondering why sexual violence against women is used as a device to glorify male characters, why it's treated as iconic rather than horrific, and who owns the experience itself?

The neighborhood does get the occasional mudslide, but its generally just the kind that causes property damage, rather than horrific mud drownings.

The project originated when a gap formed in the BBC's schedules for a six-week serial to run on Saturday nights during the summer of 1953, and Kneale's idea was to fill it with "a mystifying, rather than horrific" storyline.

It is the horrific rather than the comic aspect of the novel that has captured critical attention.

Rather, after the horrific attacks of 13 November, it needed to determine whether it had the will and capacity to host the whole summit – with full participation from civil society, including in the streets.

The main themes of the exhibition include reaffirming the gentle nature of the monster as written by Mary Shelley, rather than the horrific murderer depicted in the American film; addressing the history of humans altering nature since the novel was published in 1818; and the clash of scientific research and ethical cultures.