William Tecumseh Sherman

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

American Soldier

Florenz Ziegfeld

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

American Producer

Leonard Bacon

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

American Clergyman

Richard Quest

Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.

English Journalist

Ken Loach

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

English Director

Adam Ondra

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

Czechoslovakian Athlete

Emma Thompson

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

English Actress

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

German Poet

Rachel Sklar

Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

Canadian Lawyer

Richa Pallod

After playing giggly and bubbly, it is fun to shriek and yell.

Indian Model

Used to express strong emotions, like terror or joy, indicating an uncontrollable reaction.

Emotional Intensity

Most suitable for casual or less formal contexts; may seem melodramatic in formal situations.

Informal Setting

Implies a spontaneous and surprised reaction, often to something sudden and unexpected.

Unexpected Reaction

While speaking, it conveys raising one's voice to a very high volume, often viewed as disruptive.

Loud Volume

Highlights emotion over content; the manner of speaking overshadows the words spoken.

Emotion Over Reason

Describes a sound that is loud and sudden enough to startle or grab attention.

Startling Sound

Indicates a momentary loss of composure due to overwhelming emotions.

Momentarily Loss

Used more for the intensity of the sound than for delivering a clear verbal message.

Intensity Over Words

 Horrified, Oisín rode until he came upon a group of peasants working in the fields. They were struggling to remove a boulder from their land, and forgetting Niamh's warning, Oisín leapt from his horse and rolled it away with his superhuman strength. The crowd's cheers soon turned into shrieks. In place of the youth was an old man whose beard swept the ground

The myth of Oisín and...

 audiences and there were moments where where they would shriek at watching but you didn't you you didn't hesitate to keep the camera just locked on what was happening and sort of what was the decision behind that well there's a lot of debate about it obviously I mean we wanted to tell the truth not only about

Compelling Models for...

 and then wait again, for hours or even days. And then abruptly, the phone would ring at two in the morning, and all of us would jump out of our beds and gather round the phone, shrieking into it, discussing general well-being at two in the morning. Today it can feel like things are happening too fast --

Why we need to imagine...

 actual experience the brain treats it as real we call this presence in my lab about a third of the people who I bring in and I bring in about a thousand people per year they refuse to step off that plank the ones that do they shriek they sweat and sometimes they fall into my arms

Can VR help create...

 you learned about fear one of the things I write in wild is that you know that I that that I decided before my hike that I wasn't gonna be afraid because I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me I just couldn't do it I wouldn't go or I'd be out there and I'd run shrieking you

Facing Fear in the Wild...

 and cruelty was a popular form of entertainment. Perhaps the most vivid example was the practice of cat burning, in which a cat was hoisted on a stage and lowered in a sling into a fire, and the spectators shrieked in laughter as the cat, howling in pain, was burned to death.

The surprising decline...

 Who am I? Who is anyone, really? When I wake up in the morning and open my eyes, a world appears. These days, since I've hardly been anywhere, it's a very familiar there's the wardrobe beyond the end of the bed, the shuttered windows and the shrieking of seagulls,

Anil Seth: How your...

 less capable of reason and unworthy of the same intellectual respect as their brothers. Separately, I become obsessed with female screams. Not in a creepy way. I'm talking about, like, those shrieks and squeals that fangirls let out at concerts.

For the love of fangirls...

 and dense foliage allow a resting devil to lay low by day but by night the same landscape becomes a shrieking stalking ground Tasmanian Devils are the Kangaroos crankiest cousin like most

Bite of the Tasmanian...

 gagged, and the rescue leader, "We're the Colombian army! You are free!" The shriek

Shriek

Emotional Intensity

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