Sentence examples for terror plays from inspiring English sources

A virtual sword of Damocles of blackmail was hanging over the heads of homosexuals in Hollywood at the time, and that hectic and deforming terror plays a critical part in the action (even as, at its climactic moment, the Coens mine the optics for some extraordinary humor, finding gay iconography in surprising places).

For my generation, the war on terror plays a part in our everyday lives.

Has the "war on terror" played on similar themes?

Terror played a role too in the passage, on December 2nd, by the lower house of Congress of a bill supposedly aimed at easing prison overcrowding.

In the movie, Carlos steps into the abyss created by the loss of political hope and fills it with blood and terror, playing to the faithful with anti-imperialist rhetoric and a pantomime of that old-time revolutionary feeling.

But nobody in France needed Houellebecq's novel, or Jean-Marie Le Pen's I-told-you-so, to recognize at once that the terror played directly to the National Front's advantage.

The rebels thrive on the illusion that the sharp reduction in terror attacks plays in their favour.

It's a scenario that ignores the fact that many Syrians are fleeing the Islamic State's terror and plays directly into the extremist organization's hands.

But national security experts increasingly warn that militarizing all aspects of the "war on terror" actually plays into the hands of al Qaeda and hurts, rather than helps, U.S. counter-terrorism efforts.

"He was," Mr. Sontag continued, "a terror to play against: when his partner made a mistake, he rattled the windows with his screams, yet he was most generous when a hand was played well".

Leon: The Professional's influence can be felt in a number of action films that have followed it, but none have replicated its atmosphere of terror and play, melodrama and mundanity quite so well.