He did not, alas, illuminate the inexplicable horror with which modern English speakers regard this venerable practice.

I was unconversant with the altitudes and energies of sentiment, and was transfixed with inexplicable horror by the symptoms which I now beheld.

And to a civilian on the receiving end, a piece of depleted-uranium shrapnel can feel as inexplicable a horror as an ax wielded by a drugged teenager.

This brutal preliminary seemed to shadow forth some strange and inexplicable horror in the background.

There was, too, a feeling of profound and inexplicable horror concerning myself.

To the outside world, the tribal massacres there were an inexplicable horror, an atavistic replaying of ancient hatreds.

She would walk in uncertainty, with the morbid expectation that around the very next corner she might find ... a new inexplicable horror.

In the end it was us that slunk away, trembling with an inexplicable cold horror.

He did not speak for some time, and in my inexplicable horror I was glad he did not.

We turn away from the unspeakable, inexplicable horrors of the newspapers, events with no resolution, into a world where a single running policeman can put everything right.