Sentence examples for terrible forces from inspiring English sources

An eccentric, he suddenly resigned, hinting at "terrible forces".

This little community seems threatened by terrible forces above and below: trolls in the mountains, monsters from the fjord.

From Nathanael West's 1939 novel Day Of The Locust, through the 1974 Earthquake film, to the 1997 John Carpenter's Escape From LA, terrible forces hover over the City of Angels.

J.G.: Now, I just wanted to take issue with one thing that's been brought up, which is that the application of American strength, or a successful invasion of Iraq, will unleash these terrible forces of anti-Americanism in the Middle East and elsewhere.

What you have done is not in my eyes the deed of a common criminal, or that of a madman, either, but the action of someone pushed to the limit by overwhelming forces, and it is these terrible forces I would like to show at work".

"The tides are terrible, have terrible force.

We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past.

Once again the terrible force of a tornado has hit home, Fugate says.

What was a flawless if inessential piece of works turns into something of terrible force and portent.

("Mass hysteria is a terrible force," E. B. White wrote, "yet New Yorkers seem always to escape it by some tiny margin").

All the witnesses agree that she was struck by the horse with a "terrible force" and that the jockey was unseated and injured.