In a moment of exquisite horror, I realized that these parts of him- head and arm-had been shifted from their natural place.

Cannibalism is a subject of fascination and exquisite horror for the Buid, as it is for Europeans (see Arens 1979).

Such things may be imagined, but words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality.

Something which was and was not Weston was talking: and the sense of this monstrosity, only a few feet away in the darkness, had sent thrills of exquisite horror tingling along his spine, and raised questions in his mind which he tried to dismiss as fantastic.

Legend had it that with a perfect, swift cut and a quick guard the beheaded man might still be conscious for a split second, long enough to see his own body, his face contorted into an expression of the purest, most exquisite horror.

An expression of almost exquisite horror had transfixed Little Red Riding Hood's face, and the poster seemed not just to suggest but to actually proclaim that the happy ending of this story - of all fairy tales - was a convenient lie.

This proximity injected into Mr. Flay's bones a sensation of exquisite horror.