Larkin had gone through half a lifetime of writing to arrive at the terrifying clarity of his mature poems.

In other places, it is so spare and lucid that the Beckettian landscape stands out with terrifying clarity.

Lieserl saw it all now, with terrifying clarity.

These poems have a terrifying clarity and simplicity.

Burning odors and crashing sounds bring the scenes back with terrifying clarity, and at these moments Alan has never really left ground zero.

Mitchell got the worst view; he was too high, and from this angle, he couldn't see what the others had seen with terrifying clarity.

"It was a moment of clarity - but terrifying clarity."

Then the accumulated memories of the past fifteen days returned all at once with terrifying clarity.

The image of the gun barrel came back to his mind's eye with terrifying clarity.

"You must really suffer from the terrifying clarity of your vision."