He is not the only benevolent, if faintly alarming elderly man in her fiction; fathers, by contrast, tend to be shadowy or absent.
Even more alarming, the man said that there were already two members of the group in or near Berlin, and that four others would soon be trying to join them, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his work in intelligence and security matters.
Then the agents searched a fifth man, Sakhera Hammad of New York, whom the men identified as their second contact, and found an alarming piece of paper.
Thus, the trend is more alarming among men.
The attacks, which stretch back to May 18, had another alarming similarity: The man approached his victims from behind, often after following them, and reached under their clothing.
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of the air, earth, rivers, and seas with dangerous, and even lethal, materials.
The tiny paper cups of brownies -- also free -- were snatched up at an alarming rate; one man clutched five of them, looking furtively over his shoulder as he all but ran.
I was certain that I'd ruined my life, and I was thinking — with alarming frequency — of men who were not my husband, men who seemed suddenly more attractive than they'd actually been, or kinder, or braver — men who would never have gotten me into this mess.
Hard to comprehend this trade coming from a country where girl fetuses are aborted at an alarming rate and men have a hard time finding wives, and going to Finland where women don't let men pay for them in restaurants.
An alarming decline in men's 11-a-side football has not been arrested, and almost 1,650 more club sides have disappeared from the 32,000 that existed when the FA's national game strategy was launched almost four years ago.
