The very notion horrifies curators and archeologists, and not only because commercialism offends their genteel sensibilities.

The notion of trying to keep this neverfailing fountain to myself would have horrified me, had I thought of it.

The notion of weeping in front of this heartless man horrified her.

This notion horrifies some physicists, who feel it is their mission to find a mathematical explanation of nature that leaves nothing to chance or "the whim of the Creator," in Einstein's phrase.

In the next instant, however, the knowledge that the notion of a nonagency marriage would horrify Amaryllis rendered him stone-cold sober.

The notion horrifies each race; they would as soon couple with nighthounds.

For him, force is a measure of absolute last resort, and the notion of gunpowder (of which he'd never heard until Gulliver described it to him) horrifies him.

He spoke with morbid anticipation; Viridovix' notion of begging help from the Arshaum had horrified him, fey though he was.

This notion would have horrified her before, but now she was part of the serpent's new life, and it was all quite natural and even grand.

The notion horrified him, but might ease Skorzeny's mind.