The terror generated by a man who bleeds people to death in a forest.
Walter Russell Mead's succinct arguments in support of President Bush's "war on terror," seconded by David Frum in his review of Mead's "Power, Terror, Peace, and War" (June 13), overlook the worldwide hatred and increased acts of terror generated by Bush's policy.
These novels are constructed as efficient, relentless terror- generating machines, and as such don't require (much less encourage) the reader to think about the sources of the florid homicidal rage they put on display.
That point matters, because the public's willingness to pay for safety is widely accepted as a key principle in appraising safety projects.Presumably the visual impact of train-crash pictures, and the terror they generate among politicians, is mostly to blame.
Moments of terror or ecstasy (or terror and ecstasy) generate synesthesias of sight, smell and touch: "stars begin to melt, drip by drip... into the color of irises," "the sound of beating wings grows louder" as a magical scent of roses fills the air.
The war on terrorism has generated a global momentum against purveyors of terror.
But they still generate terror.
Meanwhile, France has supplied a disturbing example of how terror attacks can generate support for an authoritarian backlash against immigrants and Muslims.
Those risks with low probability (because of the high competencies or resources needed to plan and execute an attack, historical trends, or incidents that go beyond our imagination) and high impact (because they generate terror, casualties, or dangers) are what we call "wild cards".
"[Los Zetas] generate terror through the news media and social networks with the decapitations, dismemberment, hanging people from bridges, the narco-banners... all of it is a strategy that for them generates a brand.
Moreno gave harsh new instructions for it: monitor the activities of the rich; kill Goyeneche, Nieto, Paula Sanz and the bishop on sight; and allow soldiers to pillage the enemies at the first patriot victory, to generate terror.
