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Meaning frightening meaning
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Topics frightening topics
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Is bungee jumping frightening or fun?
This movie is frightening to the children.
It's truly frightening.
It sounds downright frightening.
This is rather frightening.
The idea of clowns frightening people started gaining strength in the United States during the 1970s, partly because of John Wayne Gacy.
These poles, called totem poles, are thought to have been worshipped or constructed for frightening enemies.
There is nothing frightening about a normal, natural death, the death of a man who has fulfilled himself and lived out his life.
You're frightening me.
That's a frightening possibility.
You're really frightening me.
That's a frightening thought.
It was pretty frightening.
It's frightening.
That's a frightening symptom.
Movie subtitles
Hutter had made Ellen promise not to touch the book which had caused him such frightening visions.
Get your tickets here, ladies and gentlemen. for the most frightening show you've ever seen in your life!
It's frightening.
It's frightening, terrifying.
Charming. and frightening.
Shame on you, frightening a poor old lady.
That's right, there's no use in frightening them, too.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself frightening him like that when he came to you for help!
That's frightening, what you're saying!
I'm not that frightening, am I?
You're frightening me!
Your mother doesn't seem frightening.
Why should I be frightening?
The frightening idea of getting tied down.
I do believe Dr. Livingstone takes pleasure in frightening people.
A little frightening. - Frightening?
I'm not that frightening, am I? - What do you say?
It's kind of frightening.
There's nothing shameful or frightening about it.
I might have had some notion. that they were strange and frightening. even a little funny.
You didn't find your patient so frightening in the daylight, did you?
You're frightening me.
It's frightening how well you feign innocence.
Their lenses are so fine and their shape so practical that at a short distance you can watch that squirrel up close without frightening it.
You're not frightening me, Bill Cardew.
You're frightening Catherine.
Frightening, isn't it?
Come. I'm not that frightening, am I?
You're a very frightening young lady.
The frightening problems.
Frightening things.
News and current affairs
Nevertheless, even if America is only on the edge of a liquidity trap, and even if it moves away from the current state of affairs soon, this is a frightening situation.
Unless other countries become more willing to step forward for the common good, a post-American world could quickly become a far more frightening environment than what it would replace.
The alternative is frightening, because a declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.
President George W. Bush's administration has, on any objective basis, been a frightening thing to behold.
The security policy of the Bush administration has been worse than frightening; it has been, to borrow one of the president's most frequent utterances nowadays, terrifying.
However frightening the global recession, a coordinated and coherent response to it by the world's political leaders remains highly uncertain at best.
The horrors of a senseless war are almost too frightening to contemplate.
People who know the frightening neighborhood of Tor di Quinto, where Giovanna Reggiani was killed have harsh words to say about the neglect and indifference of Rome's city government.
That makes them more frightening than ordinary criminals.
When you look at an aerial photograph of housing developments spreading into prairies or logging operations obliterating rain forests, it's hard to avoid entertaining a frightening possibility: we are parasites.
The quest for market efficiency has also led to a frightening rise in complexity.
A frightening new epidemic of multi-drug-resistant TB - or MDR-TB, which was much harder to treat than mainstream TB - had erupted.
Commitments never to raise taxes have left the US dependent on debt finance - and, more frightening, on those who are ready to veto refinancing it.
But even this frightening analogy does not answer the question of whether central banks should assume positions of power in international relations.
The war in Chechnya may contribute to the moral corruption of Russia as a whole, to its frightening descent into a culture of violence.
Cooperation can turn the sharp and frightening decline in worldwide consumption spending into a global opportunity to invest more in the world's future well being.
With Iran, the immediate threat of the Islamic State's advance proved more frightening than the medium-term prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.
The country that used to be the symbol of capitalist stability and strength now shows frightening similarities to the developing countries that suffered from the world debt crisis in the early 1980's.
Yet there are still traces within Germany of an attitude that finds modern economics distasteful and the opening of all frontiers to a globalized world frightening.
They know that, for a country like China, whose growing economic and military power risks scaring its neighbors into forming counter-balancing coalitions, a smart strategy must include efforts to appear less frightening.