Sentence examples for terror surrounding from inspiring English sources

Empire and liberty, in Tacitus' words, were reconciled, and the atmosphere of suspicion, intrigue, and terror surrounding the court in Domitian's day disappeared.

As Peter Straub wrote in 1988, "After the shock of the sheer strangeness fades away, we begin to see how the facts of the stories appear to grow out of the protagonists' fears and desires, and how the illogic and terror surrounding them is their own, far more accurately and disturbingly than in any conventional horror story.

Amidst the terror surrounding us, the innocent lives taken, and the communities destroyed, it's of great importance that MINT Collective supports these voices.

For decades, we lived in terror, surrounded by spies and informants, facing the risk of imprisonment or "disappearance" at any moment.

The characterization of Lazare Carnot as "the Organizer of Victory" is a legend created by the victors of the Thermidor coup, who, holding those vanquished in the coup responsible for the Terror, surrounded the survivors with all the brilliance of the victory.

An air of invincibility and terror surrounded the group.

It's from Station to Station, Bowie's LA album, recorded in a dark, cocaine-fueled blur, when he was living in "a state of psychic terror," surrounded by the occult, eating nothing but red peppers and milk, and in constant fear of Jimmy Page.

Moreover, security concerns in light of the heightened level of terror alerts surrounding the Republican National Convention also argue for continuity of leadership.

Oh, the wars of course, the cost of them, and debate around them, and the chatter surrounding terror and fear.

MEXICO CITY — A 13-year-old girl was abducted, then raped repeatedly over a two-week period during a campaign of political terror in Zimbabwe surrounding recent elections there.

Members of the island's anti-terror squad surrounded the plane, which was carrying with 55 passengers, and the busy airport was closed and sealed off.