Sentence examples for act scary from inspiring English sources

In recent thrillers – John Wick, The Equalizer, The November Man, Transcendence, Lucy, and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – the henchmen might look, talk and act scary, but they invariably turn out to be incompetent knuckleheads who get polished off in 10 seconds flat the first time they encounter someone who knows how to use a bowie knife, a nail gun or an AK-47.

Greno explained, "if Mother Gothel was a mean villainess, and looked like a villainess and acted scary, you'd be like, 'Why is Rapunzel staying in the tower?'" In early drafts, Gothel was inspired by Ursula from The Little Mermaid (1989), causing the character to become "too dark".

Counter this and "train yourself to act in scary situations.

But reducing nutrition programs available through the Older Americans Act is a scary prospect.

Listening to some of that record now, lyrics like: "I hand you my ball and chain, you just hand me that same old refrain... .., it seems an act of quite scary honesty, if not cruelty, a demonstration of the truism that a writer's first loyalty is to his art.

The act was shocking, scary and lightning fast.

We spoke with the owner of the Opera Gallery about the bizarre, downright scary act of vandalism.

"The government's complete immobility, deafness and incapability to understand reality and act accordingly was very scary".

I'm hoping spring will tempt you to try preservation, a fancy word for canning, and like the act itself, not as scary as it sounds.

Much of the build-up may retread familiar The Last Exorcism territory, but the claustrophobic final act is properly alarming scary fare.

The excremental trope was, I thought, stunning: "Are you aware, sir, that you are full of ostrich shit?" It was wonderfully deft in its controlled daring: a lieutenant colonel baiting a rear admiral in public was a scary tightrope act, even in a community as notably hostile to Navy brass as the Marines.