Sentence examples for the horrors of hell from inspiring English sources

Practically every church contained frescoes or sculptures depicting the horrors of hell – devils gouging out the eyes of screaming sinners, living humans skinned and eternally roasted – contrasted with the peace, tranquillity, and safety of heaven for the saved.

Such a differentiation of the two genres may be simplistic, but it provided sufficient grounds for Dante to call his great poem La Commedia (The Comedy; later called The Divine Comedy), since, as he says in his dedicatory letter, it begins amid the horrors of hell but ends amid the pleasures of heaven.

By contrast, Goat focuses on the horrors of "hell week," as told from the perspective of incoming freshman Brad Ben Schnetzerr) as he pledges the fraternity of his older brother (Nick Jonas).

The bat-like death figure, with skull extruding up to earth and skeletal arms and legs reaching down into hell, is the protagonist of the narrative according to Pächt, but death is vanquished by the slim and youthful looking archangel standing between the horrors of hell and the promise of heaven.

On August 31, 2004, Insane Clown Posse released their ninth studio album, Hell's Pit, the second exhibit of The Wraith, intended to warn listeners of the horrors of Hell. Bruce described the album as the darkest, most painful work he had ever done.

Describing the hell passage, art historian Bryson Burroughs writes that "the diabolical inventions of Bosch and Brueghel are children's boggy lands compared to the horrors of the hell [van Eyck] has imagined".

The most striking feature of Edwards's sermon is its lack of proportion: the petty offenses of a short life, on one side, and the endless horror of Hell, on the other.

The dreadful angels of hell and the horrors of that place are as thoroughly described by theologians as the pleasures of paradise, with its waters and gardens and the houris who are permanent virgins.

The entries begin on Sept. 11 in New York with the horrors of ground zero and the fires burning at the gates of hell.

An America where genocidal fundamentalists were told to get the hell out and go back to the horrors of Western Europe?

Moreover, when the General Assembly convenes, the permanent U.S. representative will be Samantha Power, a firsthand witness to the horrors of sectarian warfare and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide".