Sentence examples for vast horror from inspiring English sources

For all of us, there is some banal detail, beyond the vast horror, that brings it home.

I had come to realise the vast horror of what my father and his comrades had experienced; but also what so many Japanese soldiers had been through.

I think we could be heading into a re-run of the 14th century, with vast horrors ahead of us.

Through one individual's tragedy, it is possible to glimpse the vast horrors of Rwanda, where neighbours raped, tortured and murdered neighbours in a feverish orgy of killing.

It wasn't long, either, before Mitchell and Jessen were well on course to receiving, as the subcontracted entity Mitchell, Jessen & Associates, a total of $81 million in US taxpayer dollars, estimated as a minimum - until, that is, the whole vast horror-show was closed down by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" confronted viewers with the vast, unfathomable horror of genocide, emphasizing the indifference and complicity of European gentiles, a theme further explored in Marcel Ophuls's "Hotel Terminus" and "The Sorrow and the Pity".

Through all the recent centennial events I have rarely felt so close to the tangled aspirations and emotions, the vast incalculable horrors and the grinding tiredness of those years.

His death, and the "Wal-Mart Stampede" that caused it, was the lead story on news channels across the country that evening, and it provoked a vast outcry of horror.

The murder of the tsar and his family was but a tiny speck on the vast canvas of horror painted in Russian blood for more than half a century.

As for the Iraq war, the war the Lib Dems stood against, the war that has made the Middle East into a vast zone of horror, it was in the interests of both the Tories and Labour to not mention it.

The Serbs lost the war, and the regime of then leader Slobodan Milosevic was responsible for the vast majority of horrors committed during those years.