The phrase "a chilling level" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a degree or intensity of something that evokes fear or discomfort.
Example: "The documentary revealed a chilling level of violence that shocked the audience."
Alternatives: "an unsettling degree" or "a frightening extent".
She provides a chilling level of psychological detail as she remembers the attack, her steps toward recovery, and her experience testifying at the trial of her assailant.
Such a chilling level of detachment also demonstrated the fact many of these same people are perversely hostile or, at the very least, callously indifferent to the level of political, social, cultural and economic indignities that too many poor and disenfranchised people, particularly those who are back and brown, have had to and still continue to endure on a regular basis.
Tweets like "Ain't no problem like a hoe problem" speak to the chilling level of distance the accused put up against their victims who they were absolutely terrible toward.
And of course the most negative characteristic of either is the chilling level of rage that they each too readily feel and express, when disappointed, let down or, God forbid, criticized.
For cultivars with chilling requirements above 1000 Chilling Hours, such as apples, cherries and pears, very few locations with safe chilling levels were found to exist today, and our modeling results project that virtually none will exist by mid century.
New York has experienced nearly two decades of annual crime declines since skyrocketing to chilling levels of violence in the early 1990s that topped out at 2,245 slayings in 1990.
There is a chilling reference to rising radiation levels, with an announcement made over loudspeakers that asks people to "please understand" they are being exposed to levels far above normal.
Federal migration policy has a chilling effect at very local levels even on legal citizens.
Privacy law rests on the assumption that government surveillance may increase the general level of conformity and thus generate a chilling effect.
The Giuliani administration's crackdown on low-level quality of life offenders seems to have had a chilling effect on the more traditional street swindlers.
Bloom estimates that high levels of uncertainty during the Great Recession had such a chilling effect on businesses that it knocked 2 percentage points from economic growth.
