Sentence examples for a frightful thing from inspiring English sources

A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

The look on their faces is as if they are saying, 'What a frightful thing must have happened!

In tone and language, Mrs. Cheney thus conveyed that (a) her daughter is not openly gay; (b) to be gay is a frightful "thing"; and (c) Ms. Roberts was revealing a Cheney family secret.

"It is a frightful thing to see the greatest thinkers, poets and authors of modern Europe, men like Ibsen, Wagner and Tolstoy... delivered helplessly into the vulgar hands of such a noodle as this despised and incapable old official notoriously was".

The truth, in Russia, China, Cuba, and Venezuela, is a frightful thing to the criminals in charge.

You entered the world blue and lifeless and I was the one who saw that most frightful thing and felt life end and wanted so badly to hear you wail at the top of your lungs.

It is to New York City what Cholula is to Mexico, the home of the spirit, a place where frightful things happened, and were covered up, or built upon.

And though white imperialists did plenty of frightful things, a good many of their accounts speak of their total enthrallment with what they found: the Taoist idea that intercourse, for example, permitted a man to absorb life-enhancing yin forces, undeniably offered a degree of justification for foreigners to have a great deal of fun.

Rather than let the public guess as to what these words mean, ask Congress to write a statute that actually aims at those frightful things that it was trying to prohibit.

Frightful things belong where they are now, in the past".

"That these frightful things should be considered at all is beyond me," he wrote to his greatest patron, the banker Grant B. Schley, after seeing a show of new paintings around 1915.