Sentence examples for terrific effect from inspiring English sources

Wood interweaves the ordinary and surreal to terrific effect.

It had a terrific effect on the morale of the organisation".

Wasabi played a minor role, citrus a major one, and the restaurant used coarse salt to terrific effect.

On the contrary, he plays them up to terrific effect, and it works because Nottage's writing is as delicate as the lace undergarments Esther sews.

All this is used to terrific effect in Joe Hill-Gibbins's production, which creates a feeling of movement with hardly any physical displacement.

Yes, we know this show is contrived and draws on any number of contemporary experimental techniques to terrific effect, but it also feels utterly honest.

Mr. Lou uses water -- the choppy, opalescent surface of the river and the torrential downpours that seem to supply most of Shanghai's weather -- to terrific visual effect.

Ten-cent words like "festooned," "rodomontade," "monomania," "piquant," "prating," "thither," "sweetmeats," and "bonne bouche" butt up against the brusque colloquial to terrific comic effect.

The routine nailed what Bruno called the "intense melancholy" of Daisy and Gatsby's story to terrific, absorbing effect.

On January 30 , 1948Shive discovered that gold-plated tungsten point contacts on a p-type layer of germanium grown on an n-type substrate gave "a terrific triode effect".

Urban growth is a terrific issue for the next centuries.