horror
Noun
Meaning
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
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Polycarp replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, "Do you know me?" "I do know thee, first-born of Satan." Such was the horror of the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.