Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: But I find that notion so horrific that I think it's easier to try to alter the entire nature of our society instead.

Modifies a noun

• ordeal: The following is the story of a 28-year-old Staffordshire woman who suffered a horrific ordeal after her drink was spiked.

• crash: The Spaniard was lucky to escape from an horrific crash.

• murder: On Tuesday, we had a reminder of the past: an horrific, bloody murder.

• massacre: Friend aware that 10 years have passed since the horrific massacre of a teacher and children at Dunblane?

• cruelty: Stickers will be produced to inform the public about the horrific cruelty behind the product they were about to buy.

• atrocity: So why do the British question horrific atrocities that occurred ninety years ago?

Modifying Another Word

• truly: The costs of war for human development are truly horrific.

• equally: Finding a specific bit of information in Usenet was an equally horrific task.

• pretty: Of course, the accident itself is pretty horrific.

• absolutely: Commenting on his visit Norman Baker MP said: " The situation in Tasmania is absolutely horrific for anyone with an environmental conscience.

• potentially: We will develop and maintain the capability to reduce to the extent possible the potentially horrific consequences of WMD attacks at home and abroad.

• particularly: Over the weekend a particularly horrific murder took place in Peckham at what is reported to be a family christening event.

Infinitive complement

• contemplate: The prospect of violent, drunken racists rampaging through Britain's cities with assault rifles is too horrific to contemplate.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: She is ambivalent to many things that may seem horrific to the reader.

• sound: But NO the sin would continue and the whole thing much boring and plain sounds quite horrific to me actually.

• become: We are in a new century, but it is becoming just as horrific as the last one.

Preposition: of

• circumstance: Reading his book will give you the assurance that God is faithful to bring you through even the most horrific of circumstances.