Sentence examples for terrible details from inspiring English sources

Mr. Komisarjevsky's story also features terrible details, like his own history as a child rape victim.

In court, she'd often think: "Are the family hearing the terrible details for the first time?

With the terrible details of the event left unspoken, graduation was a play of symbols, and everyone seemed to be looking for one that would sum it all up, capture the profundity.

Subsequent biographies — the warmly overdramatizing "Nina Simone," by David Brun-Lambert (2009), and the coolly meticulous "Princess Noire," by Nadine Cohodas (2010) — have filled in terrible details of depression and violence and long-sought but uncertain diagnoses: "bipolar disorder" appears to be the best contemporary explanation.

Or if Patricia McCormick had not traveled to Nepal and India to report back on the terrible details of sexual slavery for her book "Sold," would we have understood how beauty is, to still-­unsullied girls, huts "torched with sunlight" and villages "cloaked" in the "mountain's long purple shadow"?

All sorts of rich and terrible details are caught up in the sweeping panorama that Barker produces horses galloping away from an explosion, their manes and tails on fire; a dog hiding behind a bed with a dead couple but there is nothing that, in Elinor's words, we don't know how to look at.

(She describes, in terrible detail, the effects on local children of epidemic diseases such as diphtheria).

The Canadian novelist Kim Echlin has written a love story that exposes in terrible detail the consequences for generations of Cambodians of living through "Year Zero".

This moment is understood in such terrible detail largely because of "Gimme Shelter," the extraordinary cinema verite account by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin of the Stones' 1969 American tour that ended in the Altamont darkness.

"I can recall it all - every last terrible detail - as if it were yesterday … " At this time of year, as the nights lengthen and the temperature drops, BBC7's classic dramatisations are just the thing for cosy nights in, and Susan Hill's The Woman in Black has proved a real treat.

Tony Thornton is the author of Nanin, a book originally written as therapy, which catalogues in terrible detail his abuse at the hands of his father at the age of six, and, when he was nine, by his uncle, who 'lent' him to other men.