The vile Sikes is chased by the forces of law and order, and finally, terrifyingly, by the righteous mob of Jacob's Island.
A woman is force-fed food she hates; a passport official requires a man to humiliate himself with animal impressions; a group of men in badly fitting frocks are allowed to bunny hop happily among the carnations until they are surrounded, terrifyingly, by security men and four whining guard dogs.
The novel's premise is "made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer," Anthony Bourdain wrote here last year.
It's an unlikely scenario -- probably even an offensive one to some -- but it's a premise made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer.
His evocation of Lope de Aguirre – the 16th-century conquistador terrifyingly incarnated by Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God – drew me, aged 16, into his world.
Worrying because over the past 20 years, it was subtly and terrifyingly admitted by the CPS, the mood has shifted away from ancient balances to populist revenge, and Whitehall's thunderous white granite is shifting accordingly.
This part of the national character is brilliantly, terrifyingly illuminated by the Warsaw Rising Museum (ulica Przyokopowa 28), which describes life under Nazi occupation and the unsuccessful Polish rebellion of 1944.
While the crowd is peering at a crocodile gliding terrifyingly close by, a man cries out, having spotted a rare something or other across the water which we must go look at.
His first picture, Chopper, made 12 years ago, was a portrait of the notorious Mark "Chopper" Read, a psychopathic criminal, terrifyingly impersonated by Eric Bana, who became some sort of national hero in Australia as a bestselling author and a media celebrity.
It's a film about the harshness of nature -- including human nature, which is terrifyingly incarnated by Gavino's brutal, crafty father -- and the killing loneliness of rural life.
The essayist Richard Steele, who met Selkirk on his return to England, said that his experience was unique in human history: no man had ever been so terrifyingly tested by solitude, which threatened to erode his reason and to undermine his very humanity.
