Sentence examples for while horrific from inspiring English sources

But members of the panel conducting the inquiry said the beheading, while horrific, should not influence their work.

My daughter left on the television, as do so many of us while horrific events involving gunfire unfold, as if it were disloyal to turn the screen blank.

Jules Lambert, a British petrochemicals entrepreneur who has lived in Nigeria and South Africa and is planning to move to Kenya soon, said: I am about to invest a lot of money in an oil and gas project in Kenya, and this attack, while horrific, does not put me off or make me worry excessively about security.

"While horrific, widespread reports of abuse and cover-up are sadly quite common, the significance here is that a government panel is conclusively saying that the finger-pointing and blame-shifting and excuse-making of the church hierarchy is bogus," he said in an interview.

The stench of putrefaction permeates all the later stages of the book, while horrific observations like those about carrion birds so bloated on corpses they ignore the huge piles of sheep offal festering inside the town are deliberately made to feel mundane, as is the stark fact that everyone is growing visibly thinner by the day.

There is a tribunal to try suspects for the genocide in Rwanda, but some experts argue that its effect has been small, in part because the crimes, while horrific, were so local, and because, until recently, it had achieved few convictions.

For a while the horrific events seem like the only news that matters.

All the while, the horrific words and images emanating from Queens carried the unsettling air of the familiar.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration keeps raiding factories and farms, terrorizing immigrant families while exposing horrific accounts of workplace abuses.

Initial fascination is speedily undermined, however, as visitors move through rooms made successively narrower by metal plates, while the horrific consequences are projected along the sides.

"While these horrific crimes are being committed [in the north], there is a perception (in my view) that Nigerians in the south almost see this as happening in another country.