Translation for "terror sagrado" to english
- sacred terror
- holy terror
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Las catacumbas de Londres carecen de este componente de terror sagrado.
this element of sacred terror is absent from the London catacombs.
El terror sagrado es pavor indecible, precisamente por ser experiencia de lo indecible.
Sacred terror is inexpressible dread, precisely because it is the experience of the inexpressible.
En primer término el terror sagrado, esto es, «un terror especial», que sería vano comparar con el miedo que nos produce un peligro conocido.
First, sacred terror, that is, “a special terror” which cannot be compared to the fear a known danger produces in us.
Él era tanto un héroe como un terror sagrado entre los musulmanes.
He was a hero as well as a holy terror among the Moslems.
El orgullo de que había sido insultado por la divinidad, y el desprecio de todo lo que él creía que provenía de su enemigo, hicieron que toda nuestra familia contemplase con terror sagrado su hundimiento.
His pride in the face of being insulted by the deity, and his disdain for everything he believed to come from his enemy, made our whole family contemplate his downfall with holy terror.
Y cuando me propuso escoltarme hasta la caravana, comprendí que quería darme a entender que estaba al tanto de todos nuestros movimientos quizás desde el día mismo en que habíamos salido de la ciudad, pero no había sombra de amenaza ni de bravata en su insinuación, lo cual demostraba su realismo, porque ya sabía, no solamente que un grupo de soldados esperaba en el monte de tala, sino que yo ya me había dado cuenta de que mientras Troncoso y los demás locos estuviesen con nosotros, nunca nos atacarían, a causa del terror sagrado que les inspiraban. Por las dudas, me adelanté a decirle lo de los soldados que esperaban, en un tono lo bastante diplomático para que no lo tomara como una amenaza que se hubiese sentido obligado a responder, y los llamé, de modo que salieron del monte y se aproximaron al trote, dando a entender por las actitudes que asumían que venían sin ninguna intención de pelear.
And when he proposed to escort me to the caravan, I understood that he wanted to make it clear that he was aware of all our movements and had been perhaps since the very day we had left the city, but there was no shadow of threat or bravado in his insinuation, proving he was a realist. He already knew a group of soldiers waited in the clearing, and that I had already realized that as long as Troncoso and the other madmen were with us, the Indians would never attack because of the holy terror the mad inspired. Just in case, I went forward to inform him of the waiting soldiers in my most diplomatic tone, so that he would not take it as a threat and feel obliged to respond, and I summoned them, so they left the grove and approached at a trot, implying by their posture that they came with no intention to fight.
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