Sentence examples for terror of dead from inspiring English sources

Crime inquiries are often complicated for Chee and Leaphorn, as well as for Hillerman readers, by the Navajo terror of dead bodies (not unreasonable if you half believe that all that's evil in you stays with the flesh, and bad spirits called "skinwalkers" sometimes grind body parts up into "corpse dust," which they sprinkle through your hogan roof).

The oddest thing of all, however, was that it spoke of the same gaping fear which had just been running through Gwen's mind; the empty terror of these dead days.

And the sure terror of being dead tomorrow, and to suffer all through life and through the darkness, and through what we do not know and hardly suspect..

Don't let the first scene of "Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints," set in early-19th-century Haiti, confuse you: the piercing screams, the people running in terror, the circle of dead and dying in white garments drenched with blood.

A brief recap of the Anglo-American "war on terror" in the Middle East, 2001 to date: Afghanistan was occupied to "eliminate terrorism" but, many thousands of dead later, terror has spread to Pakistan and beyond, leaving Kabul with the most corrupt government on earth.

Symptoms included repetitive cleaning, arranging and rearranging bottles on a bathroom shelf, and a terror of being found dead in a dirty house.

Before long, however, Amin launched an eight-year reign of terror; while the number of dead will never be known, exile organisations put it at 500,000.

They fear a world in which the United States, or any nation, can brag of slashing its warheads because the balance of terror is dead -- and, therefore, so are the treaties that regulated it.

In this version, we have a giant beast on the loose, mutiny, murder, rumours of ghosts in the Terror's Dead Room, gripping tales of survival, the mysterious Esquimaux woman Lady Silence... and plenty of research: sometimes the detail generates incredibly rich and evocative storytelling; at others it's like reading a textbook.

For as always in his novels, modern life is described – with wilful comic terror – as a dead landscape of circumscription and ennui: a desolation of microwave meals, bored sex and smoking bans.

It is a terror of dying so nauseating that it makes me want to be dead.