Mr. Aliyev also expressed interest in someday shipping oil through Iran, an alarming idea for United States officials backing a route that sticks to nations friendly to the West.
The contemplation of nudity or sex could tend to bring up the alarming idea that at any moment human passions might rise up and topple the world we know.
As writer came to the end of the volume, an alarming idea occurred to him: What if the Nobel Prizes in the sciences turn out to be no more infallable than those in literature?
And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea that what Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?
A classic King novella takes time to tease out the implications of its alarming central idea, but the ending still comes swiftly enough to make the final page resound like a slammed door.
Which is more alarming: the idea that Pizzagate is being promoted by politically motivated cynics who don't actually believe it, or that people with influence and proximity to power, including people with access to the President-elect, are really susceptible to this sort of nonsense?
Dara Lind, writing for Vox, warned that, in fighting against the normalization of Trump's more alarming behavior and ideas, progressives may miss the more mundane ways he undermines democracy.
And yet what's far more alarming than the idea of Hollywood filmmakers and moguls trying to figure out how to inspire their audiences to cathartic orgies of sniffling and sobbing is the notion of psychologists, educators and the business community conspiring to raise and train the ideal consumer for this second-rate, second-string culture.
But what's really alarming is the idea that our online bank account could be compromised, or our Web-based business could be brought down by cyber-crooks.
Their opposition to the then dangerous thought was earnest and powerful; but, amid all their terror and affrighted vociferations against it, the alarming and revolutionary idea moved on, and the country with it.
