Sentence examples for terrifying event from inspiring English sources

Unlike Tarkovsky's film, which concentrates on the hallucinatory, vacated landscape of the zones, the novels portray a society adapting to an inexplicable, terrifying event, an eruption of the unknown.

I found my son's birth to be a terrifying event.

Over a hundred years ago, the French philosopher and physician Pierre Janet (1859-1947) argued that the emotional shock, which accompanies a terrifying event can result in dissociation.

But while there is no shortage of expert advice, there also is no one formula for helping children cope with such a terrifying event in American history.

"The seizures come on when fever is high," Dr. Nelson said, "and it is a terrifying event for the families to have a young child convulse and then look as if they are dead.

He insists that this book is an argument for reform and concludes with a warning that, "like the reformations of the past, this will be a terrifying event, one that has already begun to engulf the world".

This increased sensitivity results in the misinterpretation of nonthreatening situations as terrifying events.

This increased sensitivity results in misinterpretation of nonthreatening situations as terrifying events.

Pitched battles like Chancellorsville or Gettysburg are terrifying events for the soldiers who participate in them.

Of course, even before the lawyers got involved, birthday parties were terrifying events.

Inside Living Water, senior pastor Amy Urban addressed the tendency to feel afraid in the aftermath of terrifying events.