Sentence examples for terror of dark from inspiring English sources

Thousands of minor clerks and small tradespeople, hearing faint noises of railroads they had never seen, mines they had never worked, steel they had never tempered, fled before the terror of dark.

Looking back, I think that might also explain my terror of our dark basement or the chills which traversed my spine when exploring our church's cemetery.

Even 11 months after what has become known simply as "Chernobyl" I sensed a terror of the darkest unknown as I donned the requisite protective gear and checked Geiger counter readings before entering the surviving turbine room adjoining plant No. 4, where the explosion had occurred.

Von Trier constructs the drama as a fun-house of terrors; a warren of dark nooks and crannies, spring-loaded with trap doors and rearing phantoms.

In addition to offering a generous helping of controversial comics — including Tomb of Terror, Dark Mysteries, Strange Fantasy and the equally gruesome War Fury and Battle, which showed bloodthirsty North Korean soldiers — Trombetta's book provides insightful history.

Of the dark night, and terror of the waves, and the fearsome whirlpool?

Although he gives a sensitive performance as a character who finds himself in the traditional female role in relationships, Mr. Tergesen said he did not see a link between the male prisoners' terrors and women's everyday fears of dark alleys.

For us, however, as the terror of Aids grew in stature, the dark days of backstreet abortions and bleak enforced adoptions began to seem almost worthy of nostalgia – because if we had unprotected sex we were all going to die.

It's hard not to feel uneasy about Fesperman hanging his narrative on the Yugoslav conflict, but Lie In The Dark makes the terror of living in the midst of a civil war come horribly and numbingly to life.

His synthesised voice counterposes the physical terror of waking "brushed by panic in the dark" with the intellectual power of quantum physics.

Maitland introduces the reader to the Great Chthonic Terror of the earliest human societies — "that the dark may swallow the light...