Sometimes relationships are as volatile as a tidal wave, with surges of frightening force and power that can render us feeling afraid, disoriented and caught in the undertow, unsure of which way is up.
In many cases, it crept up with frightening force after what had seemed a harmless, even healthful meal — a spinach salad with walnuts, a sandwich layered with spinach or, as for the Krause family, a baked, boneless, skinless piece of chicken on a small bed of spinach.
En route it passes the majestic Kjosfossen waterfall whose waters tumble 100m with frightening force and velocity.
Natural disasters and unnatural acts, invasions from afar and disappointments from next door, a weakening social fabric and frightening forces of destruction, emerging viruses and disturbing weather patterns -- it all adds up to what Bell calls the Quickening.
The kidnappers are many, masked and clearly mean business; the teenagers are frightened, forcing resentments into the open amid the school's rather typical hierarchy.
Matt Rothschild's astonishing expose of the FBI's decision to "deputize" 23,000 representatives of private industry reflects a frightening alignment of authoritarian forces, as well as another apparently deliberate flouting of constitutional norms.
A video of the incident went viral, provoking horror among many who saw it as a frightening and excessive use of force and an attack on the freedom of speech.
Force Majeure is a frightening film.
Only a frightening reminder.
Slowly, a frightening picture emerged.
