horrific

The refugee stories are compelling at first, but horrific details are numbing.

They were met in the gate by a crowd of women howling and blowing horns, and otherwise adding to the horrific tumult.

The other two were named Virgilia and Orinthia, and I can't say that these horrific labels did them any injustice.

He passed his hands over his face as though shutting out some horrific vision.

Under the April showers and sun-shafts they became tragic, enchanted, horrific, paradisiac.

She merely sensed that it was red carnage, titanic, horrific.