Sentence examples for wild terror from inspiring English sources

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Among Stubbs's best-known pictures are several depicting a horse being frightened or attacked by a lion (Horse Frightened by a Lion, 1770) in which he emphasizes the wild terror of the former and the predatory power of the latter.

Alfred Molina, with his large frame and beetling eyebrows, has exactly the fierce intensity of an artist whose paintings were a dynamic battle between Apollo and Dionysus, and who once said that he saw art as a means of direct access to the "wild terror and suffering" at the heart of human existence.

It centres on an extraordinary passage in which Olds imagines Crassus, in a moment of realisation, rushing out to take them down: "If he could have lowered one, / and seen the eyes when the level of pain / dropped like a sudden soaring into pleasure, / wouldn't that have opened in him / the wild terror of understanding / the other?" Once again her poetry agonises over the capacity to see.

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Perhaps the successive narrators are lured into unburdening themselves of their lives by the promise of that worldless emptiness that Murphy sought to enjoy, only to discover that this is like entering a sensory-deprivation tank: instead of peace, the subject experiences wild terrors.

Wild-eyed terror.

Heart-pounding, mind-racing, wild-eyed terror.

Well, he won't be a fan of "Wild Nights!" The terror Ms. Oates conceded she felt in writing it is apparent.

The Terror Wild Card Whether that or any other rebuilding timeline proves overly optimistic might be less important than the continued participation of Iraqis in the effort.

While describing her sense of isolation, she'd seemed almost sobered by awe; but she dissolved into tears again as she remembered her sense of wild confusion and terror.

The convergence of a wild US election, terror attacks and police shootings has unleashed a flood of misinformation but also sharpened appetite for verification, according to Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.Org.Org

The grand jury also charged him in the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, from whom he and his brother, Tamerlan, tried to steal a firearm, the authorities said, before they led police officers on a wild night of terror and a shootout that shut down the city of Boston and its suburbs for a day.

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