Sentence examples for terrifying decline from inspiring English sources
Their whimsical play stood in sharp contrast to the dolphins' grim reality, and I thought how they were fortunate that their minds, though intelligent, weren't burdened with oral histories that chronicled their terrifying decline or statistics that quantified their perilous future.
The ladder of social mobility goes both ways, and the terrifying decline that ends in one of the greatest of all cinematic set pieces — a struggle over gold between McTeague and his former friend, Marcus Jean Hersholtt), under the hellish sun of Death Valley — is set up by a banal catastrophe, unemployment.
Even readers with an appetite for the dynamic curlicues of intellection so typical of the prose of forthrightly self-conscious, ontology-obsessed writers (John Barth being a perfect example) can suddenly grow nauseated by a disproportion of the stuff over time (hence Barth's terrifying decline in popularity).
The story of her mental decline is terrifying for anyone who works with words, who searches her clean, sour sentences for some hint or indication of future madness, and then turns to check their own.
And there is true universality behind the message she's honest enough to own: that she is terrified of "family decline," that she fears that raising a "soft, entitled child" will let "my family fail".
But in the end what leaps most powerfully out of this book is the story of a grande dame's mortifying decline and the terrifying delusions she faced in her last days.
The French wine producers' association, however, has accused the government of terrifying its customers and prompting a 15percentt decline in restaurant and bar sales in 2003.
Your Dec. 3 front-page article about the decline and fall of President Alberto K. Fujimori of Peru was terrifying and illuminating.
There was no such obvious reason for the 1987 decline, which in a way made it all the more terrifying.
Its terribleness is of a piece with the terribleness of Windows generally, a system so overloaded with icons, menus, buttons, and incomprehensible Help windows that performing almost any function means entering a treacherous wilderness of pop-ups posing alternatives of terrifying starkness: Accept/Decline/Cancel; Logoff/Shut Down/Restart; and the mysterious Do Not Show This Warning Again.
