Sentence examples for terrifying indictment from inspiring English sources

Our première selection, for February, is the 1961 novel "Revolutionary Road," by Richard Yates — "that great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender," as James Wood wrote of it in December.

Because "Revolutionary Road" became the decade's great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender, Yates's stories are often likened to John Cheever's, but they are closer to J. F. Powers's: the same richly restrained prose, luxuriously lined but plain to the touch; the same anxious comedy; the same very cold, appraising eye; and the same superb ear for the foolish histrionics of speech.

The Council failed to provide any support for Mr. Moreno-Ocampo and his terrifying indictment.

What ensues is both thrilling and – in its cold indictment of the French prison system – terrifying.

Also terrifying.

Mostly terrifying.

But terrifying.

Just terrifying".

Actually, terrifying.

Too terrifying.

Terrifying you.