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PMQs was the most nerve-racking, discombobulating, nail-biting, bowel-moving, terror-inspiring, courage-draining experience in my prime ministerial life, without question.
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Romanticism wanted nature to be beautiful (gentle and harmonious), picturesque (wilder, but "artistically" composed), or sublime (awe - or terror-inspiring).
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Some years ago, bones, arms, and broken wheels were found among the rocks, mementos of the barbarity which has given the little streamlet the terror-inspiring name of Bloody Run.
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He's smart enough to know that Muslims aren't all dark-skinned, and that I don't exactly obsess over skin color, or say negative things about Islam, beyond the wacky terror-inspiring varieties see, for example, this post.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Miss Justice van den Heever said the Concise Oxford Dictionary defined a "terrorist" as "one who favours or uses terror-inspiring methods of governing or of coercing government or community".
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Even Moses was so overcome by the terrible or terror-inspiring sight as to remark, I exceedingly fear and quake.
Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973
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In a remote and terror-inspiring angle was a square inclosure of eight or ten feet, comprising the _sanctum_, 'during hours,' of our principal, the Reverend Dr. Bransby.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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In a remote and terror-inspiring angle was a square enclosure of eight or ten feet, comprising the _sanctum_, "during hours," of our principal, the
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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The reaction from a bigoted belief in, and a blind reliance upon a jealous and tyrannical Overseer sitting in state to judge and condemn to everlasting torment all but a few of earth's children -- a terror-inspiring God -- has naturally turned the minds of many from recognition of any sort of relationship between humanity and a superior, divine and beneficent Power.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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What we read of the terror-inspiring roar is to the
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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