You sort of see what he means, the 'impoverishment of ordinary life' under tyranny, but after the chilling account of the purge it seems out of kilter.

A transcript of the event recovered by his family offered a chilling account of how some of the 13 onlookers egged him on.

All together, this makes for a chilling account of lost opportunities and the fragility of once secure human bonds.

That sends a chilling message to suppliers of all sorts of widgetry, from central heating to computers.

But among the positive comments was a chilling message from a medic friend.

And the former undisputed cruiserweight king sent him a chilling message.

The victim then receives a chilling message saying they have been 'shanked'.

His final words send a chilling message.

But for me, on that first visit, the most chilling moment was elsewhere.

However, there was one chilling moment that will linger longer than any of the other cartoon brutality on the screen this week.

It was a chilling moment.

He limped off towards the end, which was a chilling moment, but afterwards said that it was only cramp.

It's a very odd, chilling moment.

And when she returned to school, she had a chilling reminder of just how careful she needed to be.

But waking up in a saturated sleeping bag on the first morning can be a chilling reminder you should have prepared a little better.

The current weather maps are a chilling reminder of some our most savage winters, such as the notorious 1962-63 winter, the coldest for 180 years.

The whole gothic impulse of the roman noir was a chilling reminder of how vulnerable revolutionary certainties were - and remain - to hard social, economic and political realities.

In such moments a shiver runs down the spine of a rugby player, a swift and chilling reminder of the occasional brutality of their chosen profession.

The most chilling story involves a snake that really did bite the hand that feeds it when it attacked its unsuspecting owner.

Telling the chilling story of the crimes and the painstaking investigation, the film makes for fascinating if uncomfortable viewing.

The chilling story he unearthed speaks for itself.

It tells the chilling story of a political prisoner whose jailor, in an apparent gesture of fraternity, allows him to escape from his cell.

She had told me chilling stories about him.

It's a chilling tale - and one very much in need of telling.

You'll be gripped by this chilling tale.

It's a chilling tale of just how badly wrong life can go when you mortgage yourself to the hilt.

No one can leave and every pupil has a chilling tale.

Not surprisingly, these dank underground alleyways have become the setting for many chilling tales.

They were chilling thought experiments, drama as a laboratory for ethics.

Despite this chilling thought, his view of risk remains optimistic.

Here's a chilling thought experiment that, given the arc of world events, might seem eerily like a peek into the not-so-distant future.

But how about this for a chilling thought?

It’s a chilling thought.

These chilling words were spoken to me at the end of last term by a state school head.

The chilling words were drawn on a mirror in a patients' bathroom and appeared when condensation misted it up.

These were chilling words, indeed, for taxpayers and patients.

Game on just might be the two most chilling words uttered this season.