After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

Out of material and ideas that have been worked over time after time, so that they've long since become stale and hackneyed, it gathers suspense and dread, a genuine feeling of the bleakness of crime and a terrible sense of doom.

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” " A terrible picture of the decay both of clerical morality and of all sense of anything like vocation is drawn in the writings of St. Peter Damian, particularly in his Liber Gomorrhianus.

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Rachel develops as she changes her perceptions of what the role of a mother might be, based on her sense of the importance of a naiveté towards the terrible truths of the world her.

Although he is still very depressed and still feels terrible for what happened in Stamford, he seems to have cheered up a little and regained his sense of humor.

She dreams of becoming an idol someday and marrying a rich husband, and has a terrible sense of direction.

One of many Class A Jumpers abducted by the Martian Successors, he was subjected to experiments that have damaged his body, destroyed his sense of taste ( a terrible fate for a cook ), and hardened his personality ; he has no compunction about killing those who block his mission to rescue Yurika.

Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times described A Tale of Two Sisters as " a triumph of stylish, darkly absurdist horror that even manages to strike a chord of Shakespearean tragedy – and evokes a sense of wonder anew at all the terrible things people do to themselves and each other.

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A terrible chill swept through the grove.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land.

A formerly fairly healthy population was ascribed to the terrible Black Friday fires that swept through Australia in 1939: The combination of 40-year-old regrowth ( for food ) and large dead trees left still standing after the fires ( for shelter and nesting ) allowed the Leadbeater's possum population to expand to an estimated peak of about 7500 in the early 1980s ( since declining to 2000 prior to the Black Saturday fires, and possibly to 100 since ).

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

In the early 2nd century BC, they proved terrible allies of Antiochus the Great, the last Seleucid king trying to regain suzerainty over Asia Minor.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

He proceeded to march over a new third path that would intersect with the lower road to join the army on the field, but the road had been left in terrible conditions by recent rainstorms and previous Union marches.

In 1492 Savonarola warned of " the Sword of the Lord over the earth quickly and soon " and envisioned terrible tribulations to Rome.

Cyradis, still grieving over the loss of Toth and unable to consult with her people, experiences a few moments of terrible panic for fear of making the wrong choice, until Polgara removes her blindfold so that she may see with human eyes.

Debate still persists over whether this toolkit approach was RM2's greatest asset or a terrible weakness.

This was a terrible move as far as public relations went as it was not indicative of the fresh start that the Italian people wanted and suggested that Sardinia-Piedmont had taken over the Italian Peninsula, rather than unifying it.

However Dave usually gets the better of Alan except in " Basic Alan " where he tells Dave to " fuck off " after he torments him over a recent incident with a traffic cone, Dave is stunned by this and lays into Alan by claiming that " dead-air is a crime and that it is terrible that he has to fill it with swearing on his show ".

The bureaucratic machinery becomes a juggernaut, rolling over human concerns and welfare with terrible speed, jerking the universe of sentients one way, then another, threatening to destroy everything in a fit of spastic reactions.

In the end he triumphed over his rival cousins, who sought to steal from him control of the clan, and over the Taira, who suffered a terrible defeat at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185.

One Georgia newspaper referred to Union forces as walking " forty miles over the most barren land of the South, frightening the salamanders and the gophers, and getting a terrible thrashing …"

It is the story of philosopher Adrien Sixte, whose advocacy of materialism and positivism wields a terrible influence over an admiring but unstable student, Robert Geslon, whose actions, in turn, lead to the tragic death of a young woman.

These were successful at covering the Austrian rear, keeping the bridges over the Elbe open for retreating Austrian soldiers, and preventing pursuit by the Prussians, but at a terrible cost: 2, 000 men and almost as many horses were killed, wounded or captured in the action.

It was during this terrible period that he was given the gift of healing, curing many praying over them.

Within a year of his accession Timothy directed that the Ter Sanctus should be recited with the addition of " Who was crucified for us ", which led to disturbances in two churches, in which many were slain over November 4 and 5, and to a terrible riot the following day which nearly caused the deposition of the Emperor Anastasius.

Doctor Octopus is then able to escape ( still holding power over his octobots ) and vows a " terrible revenge ".

Lucullus ' arrival seems to have put a belated end to this terrible conflict, as the first official Roman presence there since the departure of the proconsul Caius Claudius Pulcher, who presided over its initial administrative incorporation into the Roman empire in 94 BC.

The war was over but the terrible dreams of the Khmer Rouge were about to come to fruition in the newly proclaimed Democratic Kampuchea.

The three wins-1-0 over Delaware Dynasty, 2-0 over West Virginia Chaos and 2-1 over Reading Rage on the last day of the season-were the lone high points in an otherwise terrible season.

`` It was a terrible loss to me '', said Kate quietly, feeling the pain twist again at the mention, knowing now that Juanita must have written to him at Grafton.

Next to the Blackwells, Titus had owned the island most, and she and Adelia had often stood in front of him, silenced by his terrible years -- a scanty man with a thin beard and very deep-set blue eyes like a mariner, more aged than possible.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

In the Book of Malachi, Elijah's return is prophesied " before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord ," making him a harbinger of the Messiah and the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible.

Although Orestes ’ actions were what the god Apollo had commanded him to do, Orestes had still committed matricide and because of this, he was pursued by the terrible Erinyes.

Gangleri comments that Loki created a " pretty terrible family " though important, and asks why the Æsir did not just kill Fenrir there since they expected great malice from him.

Perhaps I am wrong to say that ; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

Around him was standing the terrible band of Furies with snakes in their hair, torches and long whips in their hands.

" Psychiatrist John Smith concluded that was a decent person who had allowed rage to build up inside him to the point that he had lashed out in one terrible, violent act.

Tora !, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, " I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

The rebellion in Yorkshire put him in a terrible dilemma.

Sometimes the ideas were good, sometimes they were terrible, but you could never really satisfy him.

After realizing that Willi was not interested in the family business, and having suffered through a terrible year financially after World War I, his mother contacted her distant cousin about opportunities for him.

Ungoliant had grown great, and less by the power that had gone out of him ; and she rose against him ... Then Morgoth sent forth a terrible cry, that echoed in the mountains.

Freud treated him for obsessions, particularly the dread that something terrible would happen to his father and his fiancée.

His phenomenal creative energy when working, co-existed with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as being its central figure.

That alone would warrant him a terrible punishment.

As a crowd of infuriated women prepares to flog him into a quivering bowl of jelly, he awakens to find it was all a terrible nightmare.