Sentence examples for terrifying turn from inspiring English sources

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It seems pretty clear that Brooks suffered from backlash against the film (which received a nomination only for best sound editing): in a year that saw such soft soap as "The Artist," "The Descendants," and "War Horse" get nominated for Best Picture, it's easy to see why Brooks's terrifying turn got snubbed.

A terrifying turn as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin won Forest Whitaker an Oscar in 2007.

This could easily take a terrifying turn, it occurred to me, and with that a dim tide of anxiety began to build.

Charles Baker, Skinny Pete in Breaking Bad, gives a terrifying turn as an ice-blue-eyed assassin hellbent on blowing Bob to kingdom come.

And Georgia Pemberton putting in a terrifying turn as the tot performer, her rictus smile as wide as her bloomer-clad legs.

Idris Elba was a shoo-in for best supporting actor for his terrifying turn as a warlord in Beasts of No Nation.

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Once we begin to descend, nobody truly knows what frightening end we may arrive at — not to mention what terrifying turns we may encounter on the way down.

A terrifying number of people turned out to cast votes for the most unstable, bigoted candidate this country has ever seen.

This is the really terrifying nihilistic turn: to find yourself in a violent and cruel fantasyworld that casts you as the rightful subhuman, to see the full terrible truth of the universe laid out before you that tells you you're born only to lose.

This is the really terrifying nihilistic turn: to find yourself in a violent and cruel fantasy world that casts you as the rightful subhuman, to see the full terrible truth of the universe laid out before you that tells you you're born only to lose.

The slow, sickening realisation of the businessman of what he is now up against, as well as the commander's terrifying manner, turning on a sixpence between warm entreaties and blood-chilling threats, are both portrayed marvellously.

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