Every three months, Ray would pay rather alarming visits when she would lay down the law, informing Natasha that she was not, for instance, to play with the other children on the street.
After discovering that she is losing hair at an alarming rate, Marge visits Dr. Hibbert, who informs her that stress is the cause.
There is also an alarming account of a visit to an atomic power plant.
My dentist, a hard-working professional as well as a devoted wife and mother of two small children, whom I've had cause to visit with alarming frequency in the past few years, has entertained me with tales of demolishing and rebuilding her Brooklyn house — bought 10 years ago but still undergoing the final touches as of August — throughout this period.
— Jeff Gordinier NPD Group: Nationwide, after three years of alarming declines in customers' visits to restaurants that include children (called "parties with kids" in industry vernacular), such visits were flat – again — for the second consecutive year.
He seems to have been tolerated as the town eccentric, alarming in habits (daily visits to photograph at the local pool) and appearance (an unkempt beard and ratty sweater) but harmless enough.
Hospital emergency rooms, particularly those serving the urban poor, are closing at an alarming rate even as emergency visits are rising, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Like a thinner, less aggressive Michael Moore, the director talks to consumers, experts and food-industry flacks, weaving alarming statistics about rampant obesity with visits to the doctor and double-quarter-pounder-with-cheese combo meals.
Although he will come armed with plenty of alarming statistics, the pro-cannabites feel his visit will only help their cause.
