Insect
Insect noun - A person of no importance or influence.
Terror
Terror noun - A source of persistent emotional distress.
Both words in one sentence
- Heinrich I from Return to Castle Wolfenstein constantly brags about how he'll crush you like an insect, wrap you in your own guts, and establish the reign of terror over the world.
Source: Boss Banter -
Most during his Nova Trilogy and Red Night Trilogy, but Naked Lunch has a few, as it is the culmination of all of his early work; 'blank insect eyes', 'like music down a windy street', 'shitting and pissing in terror', 'No glot.
Source: Literature / Naked Lunch - In The Fly (1986), the scientific genius Seth Brundle fuses with a fly, and as his body slowly begins to morph horribly, he realizes that, to his terror, his personality is being overridden by the instincts of the mindless insect.
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