Sentence examples for terrifying echo from inspiring English sources

One character plagiarises Gaitán's speeches, while, for a Jewish refugee, the Bogotázo riots are a terrifying echo of Kristallnacht.

As the oceans warm, they could be released once more in a terrifying echo of that methane belch of 55 million years ago.

Forty-three people died, nearly 3,000 buildings burned, and soldiers with tanks were sent out on to the streets, where gun battles took place that seemed a terrifying echo of what was happening in Vietnam.

Time for this week's gratuitous literary analogy: it's like that bit in A Passage to India when Mrs Moore visits the Marabar Caves and discovers that whatever is spoken into their dark recesses, it all comes back as the same terrifying echo of nullity.

Here's Forster's description of elderly Mrs. Moore's panicked reaction to the heat and crush of a crowded cave and the "terrifying echo" she hears, as good intentions and cultural curiosity have begun to turn into anxiety: Professor Godbole had never mentioned an echo; it never impressed him, perhaps.

This could chill and criminalize a wide array of nonviolent activism in ways that have terrifying echoes its infamous Cointelpro program, which investigated and intimidated black civil rights groups and leaders, including Marcus Garvey and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is "part history, part vision, forged into a single echoing, terrifying outcry," Frederic Morton wrote here in 1960.

A daily battle with meaninglessness that echoes in terrifying ways throughout life in every possible corner.

It's a cri de coeur which faintly echoes Philip Larkin's terrifying "Where can we live but days?" Since the theological solution to the sense of displacement vanished from our intellectual horizon, the question of rescue has no answer – unless we believe we can get ourselves out of our own fences, dog-bowls, kitchen sinks and straitjackets.

Terrified screams echo in dense woods, pounding feet crunch through glass, and animal traps lie in wait for the unwary.

Their runs, enacted at terrifying speeds that sent them airborne with each tiny bump, drew echoing hoots and hollers from the spectators lounging on rocks around the bowl.