Becker, whose horrid Australian Open experience in 1997 was fodder for his resolution to play no more Grand Slam events in 1998, said he could have grilled an egg on his head while losing his match to Moya.

You'd be wise not to buy any food there at all, after your horrid experience.

A mind dominated by an incalculable wealth of information, and quick of tongue with an intellect devoted to swiftness, synthesis, probabilities, and all this against the backdrop of horrid experiences, wars, massacres, the worst perhaps the world has ever seen.

Henya's psychological and emotional scars stem from her horrid experience during the Holocaust, and from the loss of her husband during the war.

Two years younger than he, she had been a nurse in a variety of health-care institutions: hospital, nursing home (a horrid experience), top-scale retirement center in North Carolina, and county nurse in the Carolinas.

As a blow-by-blow anatomy of a horrid traveling experience, replete with flight cancellations, snowstorms and unscheduled detours, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" has great potential, but it begins to meander once Neal and Del become a reluctant duo.

It would have been easy for Rosario to use a horrid experience as an excuse to shut down and cancel this interview, but that's not the kind of woman she is.

It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me.

"Before this, I'd never had to look for a job in my entire career, and it was a horrid experience," Mr. Galante said.