"horror" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If you want to blend in, don't order a cappuccino at the end of a meal - Italians have an irrational cultural horror of milky drinks on a full stomach.
- It appealed to many in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when the established politicians had produced - and most continued to defend - the irrational horror of the Vietnam War.
- His world is not the unknown, but that irrational horror: the unknowable.
- Sometimes, a judge may suffer from irrational horror at a particular case and sentence too severely - to the point of mistake.
- I wriggled back on my bench, thumping my head against the wall as an irrational horror crawled over me.
- A fictionalized account of a murder that took place on a secluded island in the 1980s involving rational and irrational horrors, the film sold over 2 million tickets nationwide.
- In this gasoline-obsessed world he didn't mind ordinary automobiles, but somehow trucks with their suggestion of an unwholesome gigantism touched him with a faint irrational horror.
- Yet remember what Ishmael said about him: Starbuck's courage could withstand "winds or whales or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world," but not the worse horrors which come from "an enraged and mighty man."
- But that sentiment, which resembled the irrational horror some people have of cats, did not stand in the way of his immense contempt for the English police.
- This was too much like the first time she had been in Artemis Entreri's clutches; the assassin evoked an almost irrational horror in her, a deep fear that no other monster, neither a dragon nor a fiend of Tarterus, could bring.
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