Sentences with phrase «moment of terror»

Magicians always want control of their audience, and I had almost forgotten that moment of terror when about to run up against an empty cage seemingly holding a person.

These precious lives will never know a single moment of terror.

Even with the throttle pinned, the trans turned what should have been a leisurely 20 - foot trip into a small moment of terror.

In this case a moment of terror did the trick.

The experiences he relates (save for the brief moment of terror) are treated as a joke.

The movie perfectly captures the feel of combat which I have heard described as long periods of tedium, broken up by sheer moments of terror.

Dante's Peak succeeded in this area because it displayed patient direction and unsettling silence during its moments of terror.

It's not so much survival horror, though there are jump scares and moments of terror, as it is straight - up survival.

People talk about finding God during moments of terror.

When it comes to horror in first - person shooters, there's often moments of terror or moments of action.

Not exact matches

«I think that's why a lot of the directors — Chris [Nolan], Rian [Johnson], J.J. [Abrams]-- they value those moments where you've got a real look of terror, anxiety, excitement on the faces of the actors.»

Years later, in 2010, Amazon launched a full - throttle push to market baby products to moms at the precise moment it was negotiating to purchase the parent of Diapers.com, an act that could only drive down an acquisition price by striking terror in the hearts of other buyers.

In moments of fear and terror a bonding of the deepest sort occurred between blacks and whites — a fact that made a deep impression.

And this ladies and gentlemen is why Islam will crash someday in a whirlwind of common sense and rational thinking but first the Five Steps to Deprogram Islam must be promulgated in the Islamic world which at the moment is difficult because of imams and their assassin and terror go - ons who terrorize thinking Muslims and non-Muslims with bombings, stabbings, beheadings and stonings all in the name of allah.

That's one helluva big paper clip!!!! Can you imagine the terror of that psychiatrist, at any moment he could be pinned in its collosal clipping grip!

At that moment of incredible terror, I doubt many are in their right mind.

At a certain moment a royal Bengal tiger appeared swimming towards it, reached it, and lay panting like a dog upon the ground in the midst of the people, still possessed by such an agony of terror that one of the Englishmen could calmly step up with a rifle and blow out its brains.

I was raised in a tradition that held that children were innocent and heaven bound until they became aware of their sins (a fuzzy moment that is the source of much terror in children of a certain age).

In later years he described himself at the moment when the lightning struck as «walled around with the terror and horror of sudden death» judgement loomed.

The best moments of the Jimbo Fisher era at Texas A&M so far are the ones in which he experiences the abject terror of realizing just what he's gotten himself into.

Equally inevitably, whenever the baby's head reached about the halfway point, at that moment when a new face is about to appear in the world for the first time, I would have a moment of sheer terror deep in my gut: What are you DOING.

The project therefore studies how the many ways people understand European history has changed after decisive moments — EU enlargement in 2004, terror attacks in London and Madrid, the financial crisis of 2008, the migration crisis of 2013/14, or Brexit.

This will surely change but, for better or ill, there's no mileage at the moment in politicians turning the terror threat into a discussion on the future of the country.

«At the moment this a concept of neither meaning nor effect for the millions of people languishing in terror in Darfur,» said Andrew Mitchell, shadow secretary of state for international development.

In the early moments of the War on Terror, it seemed unlikely the man would evade detection for very long — what with his being the only one of our enemies in this newly declared war to have, you know, a name.

I am not going to discuss politics on here as I know it is such a hot button discussion at the moment and I want my site to be light hearted + enjoyable for all but I truly hope we find a way to end this reign of terror.

There was a moment of heart dropping terror, followed by a frantic Internet search for answers, followed by a resigned, «Oh well, I've only lost over a years worth of hard work...!

I'm just throwing my $.02 worth out there... Kinda like flying these things for a living - Hours and hours of boredom, moments of sheer terror

When it's able to create amazing moments of tension and terror, like the fantastic season opener, and at the same time being able to flesh out some characters in the process, that's when it works the best.

The house is a masterwork of set design, and there are two or three moments of actual terror.

It's clear almost immediately that the horror elements within the proceedings don't fare quite as well as moments of a more overtly dialogue - based nature, as director Karyn Kusama generally proves unable to infuse the story's horrific moments with any real sense of dread or terror.

Director Adam Wingard's (V / H / S, V / H / S 2) technique is rife with overused shaky - cam effects in order to give the semblance of tension, though not even the most tremulous of moments can cover up for the fact that this family just can not emote convincingly a look of sheer terror when their own beloved wives, sons or daughters are being butchered in front of their very eyes.

Bill Skarsgard brought a wonderfully threatening physicality to Pennywise, making it feel as if he could rip the Losers Club kids to shreds at any time, but the film's best moments echo the ones from the book: spending time with a lovable group of misfits and being along for the ride as their bonds strengthen in the face of unimaginable terror.

In these highly structured moments where the consensus view of reality rubs up against the tiny planet of terror that Sam and Amelia call home, director Kent actually finds impromptu bursts of laughter — which only makes the movie feel that much more unhinged.

When Cherry puts on a pair of sunglasses and surveys the fiery carnage she reigned down upon the infected towards the end of Planet Terror, it's hard not to think about McGowan herself in a similar context, standing brave and tall amid the cleansing fires raging through Hollywood at this very moment.

The prevalence of police brutality toward unarmed black people is an unspoken terror that hangs in the air in those final moments — before Rod steps out of the car and crushes the tension.

For Leigh, it's the beginning of terrors that escalate from anonymous calls and gifts to lights that mysteriously flicker to prove that someone watches every moment of her life.

Govaerts, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roel Mondelaers, accomplishes so much with his slasher film, giving the story plenty of room to gestate while still giving us moments of horror and terror in equal amounts.

There is a genuine, heart - wrenching terror to be found here but save for a couple of moments of blood splatters, this is all in the psychology and it's perhaps this type that is the most relentless unnerving of them all.

Aliens: Colonial Marines seeks to create the terror and tension of key moments in the Aliens movie franchise, using high - end graphics and a first - person view to immerse the player.

As a result, there are moments of real terror even as the story gets increasingly ridiculous.Pittsburgh psychiatrist Caroline...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film «doesn't flinch from graphic moments of violence and terror.»

There is a moment of such sheer and unexpected terror that it beats anything in the heart - in - the - mouth line since Alan Arkin jumped out of the darkness at Audrey Hepburn in «Wait Until Dark.»

Packing more laughs and smiles on your face moments in 22 - minutes than some full - length comedies, «Toy Story of Terror!»

Despite creating this world where silence is paramount, the moments of resulting terror rely on startling music cues and lazy jump scares.

On top of that, the film doesn't skimp on the general nastiness, with generous helpings of gore and a handful of decent shock moments, although it never comes close to the visceral terror of Hooper's classic.

There are moments of pure, bone - chilling terror here as a mob of seagulls divebomb Bodega Bay.

When Raleigh arrives, he is greeted by the muck and metastasizing hopelessness of the trench, where interminable boredom is punctuated only by cigarettes, cups of tea and moments of stark terror.

He is a livewire, thoroughly unpredictable and tangibly dangerous, and he injects a real sense of malice and terror whenever he is on screen (including being the agent of one of the most shocking moments of any film in 2014).

For a brief moment, Doug Liman was flirting with more serious fare, developing projects like «Attica,» an adaptation of Olen Steinhauer «s «The Tourist,» the documentary «Reckoning With Torture: Memos And Testimonies From The War On Terror» and a big - screen version of Jack Finney «s «Time And Again.»