espantoso
frightening ; harrowing ; atrocious ; awful ; frightful ; dire ; ghastly ; fear-inducing ; hideous ; shocking ; horrible ; dreadful ; grisly ; god-awful ; groundshaking ; nightmarish.
No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.
The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.
The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.
Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
True, ghastly additions were made to XML.
The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.
The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities - e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism - are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.
Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.
The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.
Much of what he sees and shows his readers is grim, if not grisly.
The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.
dolor de cabeza espantoso
splitting headache
A total of 87 people had been admitted to hospital with the same symptoms: high blood pressure, splitting headache, high temperature and sore throat.