Sentence examples for alarming varieties from inspiring English sources

It is at least a refreshing palate cleanser after a season distinguished by ever more alarming varieties of conspicuous consumption: skyrocketing prices for newbie artists, look-alike blue-chip collections and artworks relying with increasing ostentation on large-scale, expensive materials and costly techniques.

As wake-up calls go, it was of the five-alarm variety.

I do this for two reasons: (a) to be polite, and (b) to see if her answer sets off any bells of the alarm-like variety.

The law on nonprofits — which passed with a vote of 141 to 1, with one abstention — has alarmed a variety of business, charity and religious groups, uncertain whether they will have to carry the label "foreign agent," a term that invokes cold war espionage.

The Anglican divine, Robert Burton, in his 1621 compendium "The Anatomy of Melancholia," worried about the burdens of the soul, but he mostly concentrated on describing natural varieties of alarm and unhappiness.

The re-appearance of stem rust epidemics in East Africa and their spread eastward to Yemen and Iran, based on Ug99- a wheat stem rust isolate virulent on a large proportion of the world's current wheat varieties, has alarmed the global wheat community [ 1, 2].

There are even many varieties of alarms to stick near you that will vibrate to awaken you, including a vibrating pillow, wrist band, and devices that clip on to your pillow or go between your mattresses.

And although this wasn't big-type headline stuff of the Yankees-Mets-stock exchange variety, alarm bells went off on the other side of the Hudson.

American intelligence officials have expressed alarm at the variety of highly classified material Mr. Snowden obtained, suggesting that his actions revealed a shocking breach in the fundamental principle that intelligence officers should have access only to the material they need to do their jobs.

News that the People's Republic of China is claiming ownership of and enlarging the size of some disputed islands in the South China Sea, and building air strips to enhance its ability to project its air power in the region, has been met with predictable alarm by a variety of countries in the region and around the world.

And the extent to which they are feeding from the public trough in a variety of forms is alarming.