(1) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(2) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
(3) Nothing will change.” The president-elect then drew attention to a debate remark by Clinton after Trump refused to commit to accepting the election result, quoting her as saying: “That is horrifying.
(4) Lord Roberts, a Liberal Democrat peer, told the Observer he was delighted Muazu was back in the UK but horrified that he had been forced to endure the attempted removal.
(5) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(6) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(7) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
(8) On Thursday last week she was horrified when she heard warnings on the local radio that the moor was going to flood again.
(9) For a reporter, the experience is slightly horrifying.
(10) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
(11) The family of Milly Dowler has attacked the justice system for their "truly horrifying" experience during the trial of the 13-year-old's murderer, Levi Bellfield, saying that they had paid "too high a price" for his conviction.
(12) The system of government he had built was defiantly non-western, relying not on institutions but on individuals, key power-brokers prized for their loyalty and forgiven for faults that horrified overseas observers.
(13) Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official, said he was horrified by the total disrespect for civilian life in the conflict, which has killed at least 250,000 people and maimed up to four times that number.
(14) These terrorist actions were the bloodiest and most horrifying attacks France has experienced in more than half a century.
(15) It might be that the introduction of natal hormones [those you are born with] at puberty has an impact on the trajectory of gender dysphoria.” Even though the idea of experiencing any “natural” puberty might horrify the Kings and the Wilsons, by inhibiting it completely Tom and Julia might be denied the chance to explore fully who they are.
(16) Will it have anything as loopy as the Mos Eisley cantina, or as horrifying as the revelation of Luke’s parentage?
(17) It’s hard to understand the photo’s power in 1945 to Americans, who were weary of the war and horrified by the incredible number of deaths by servicemen, especially in Asian locations most had never heard of, Buell said.
(18) Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for young black men has almost doubled to a horrifying 55.9% in that time.
(19) In another, he complains his staff are cramping his style: "My new private secretary is horrified by the idea of ladies in hotel rooms during foreign visits."
(20) As a Labour party member I want to know whether a leadership candidate wants to listen and work with members and others who are horrified about the future of services and communities.
Macabre
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
(2) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Macabre allegory’: Otto Dix’s The Triumph of Death (1934).
(4) The first season of Breaking Bad covered the story of Walter's bizarre life-switch with a tone of macabre farce.
(5) After photographs emerged on Thursday of a senior Indonesian police official posing with the prisoners aboard the plane, treasurer Joe Hockey condemned their treatment as “macabre”.
(6) The macabre track record means Karzai will be keen to ensure the elections produce a successor who will not only respect him, but keep him alive.
(7) The fact it was a killing of a child was an aggravating factor, as was his "macabre attempt to conceal her body", and his "substantial record of serious violence".
(8) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(9) For that reason, The Fall starts in a comparatively restrained fashion – with Spector exploring someone's private space – stealing underwear, leaving a macabre calling card on the bed, orange peel on the table.
(10) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(11) The notion that Raif Badawi must be allowed to heal so that he can suffer this cruel punishment again and again is macabre and outrageous.
(12) Groups of men with machetes roved the ruins seeking supplies of food or water; others used corpses as roadblocks, a macabre sign that the capital had reached breaking point after four days of apocalyptic scenes.
(13) It was almost macabre, the way this has been handled,” Hockey told Channel Seven.
(14) In the end, we never really know whether Plath was simply an accident waiting to happen, or if she could have avoided her fate, had she achieved the fame that was unfairly denied her until a burgeoning market for macabre, self-absorbed poetry opened up after her death, when being young, white, suburban and suicidal became a rite of passage, if not an outright lifestyle, on both sides of the Atlantic.
(15) "All the soldiers here didn't get support and had to fight alone," said Sifa Mirindi, an unemployed 20-year-old drawn to the macabre visitor attraction beneath the Nyiragongo volcano.
(16) For anyone who wants to play a macabre numbers game, the overall figures are still a smaller proportion than 800 Palestinian deaths out of a Gaza population of 1.8m.
(17) Abo Rabieh's images portray defiant protesters, veiled women, a detainee forced to kneel in a stress position and captors taunting their prisoners with a macabre dance of death – all drawn from everyday experience.
(18) Vincent Price, in a lip-smacking performance, plays homicidal ham actor Edward Lionheart, who rises from the grave to exact a professional and highly macabre revenge.
(19) #Brexit.” There is much to debate about the Brussels atrocity, but for it to be gleefully and so swiftly seized upon as convenient political fodder for the EU debate is macabre.
(20) After a pair of live-action hit movies in the early 90s – The Addams Family and Addams Family Values – had revived interest in Charles Addams' macabre creations, originally conceived as drawings in the New Yorker magazine, a string of cheap TV cartoons as well as a straight to video feature (Addams Family Reunion) had somewhat tarnished the brand.