She thanked the emergency services and local authority staff for their handling of a 'horrific event'.

It was well written and well acted and sensitively portrayed a horrific event in the club's history.

The repercussions of that horrific event were both personal and, in dance terms, political.

What we witnessed was a powerful interpretation of a horrific event in order that its perpetrators might not have the final word.

And the truly horrific event that occurred on this flight isn't a passive clause but an active one.