(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
Example Sentences:
(1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(2) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
(3) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(4) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(5) What to do in the face of such horrors and dangers?
(6) It wasn't the horror of the incident that interested King, but the unanswered questions.
(7) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(8) David Baines, a campaigner for Labour in the UK, remarked on the “horror” in Aleppo.
(9) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
(10) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
(11) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(12) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(13) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(14) In an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, Fahma – alongside other members of the youth charity Integrate Bristol – met with the education secretary, Michael Gove, to ask him to write to every school in the country about the horrors of FGM.
(15) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
(16) And the horrors encountered inside the school were so great that when police sent in paramedics, they tried to select ones capable of handling what they were about to witness.
(17) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
(18) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(19) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(20) "When you see that image in your mind of bodies being burned it does bring back memories of the end of world war two, and the horror and the shame and the shock," Kirby said.
Script
Definition:
(n.) A writing; a written document.
(n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
(n.) An original instrument or document.
(n.) Written characters; style of writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(3) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(4) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(5) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
(6) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
(7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
(8) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(9) The Center for Medical Progress may have a different name, but this is the same cast of characters and follows the same script.
(10) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(11) The material in this paper provides a script for preparing a relaxation tape for clients to use between or in addition to regular therapy sessions.
(12) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
(13) The unprogrammed component of patient ritual involvement differs between the two settings, while the formal ritual 'script' is identical.
(14) You read the script and you're like, "Is this actually getting made?
(15) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
(16) FremantleMedia may be best known for its talent and game shows, but the company is investing more in scripted formats, with Frot-Coutaz saying this strategy is about more than simply following cyclical TV industry trends.
(17) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
(18) Certainly, the new leader will need a way to continue to talk unmediated to this base, and may also – like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – gain some mileage with the wider electorate for being at ease with himself, and refusing to talk to a script.
(19) Noice found that some actors learn their lines by focusing not on the words of the script, but on their underlying meaning and the motivations of the character who uses them.
(20) There’s no script so we can’t programme it on that basis.