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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost terrifying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is close to being frightening but may not fully reach that level of fear.
Example: "The sudden loud noise in the dark alley was almost terrifying, making her heart race."
Alternatives: "nearly frightening" or "borderline scary".
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And pianist Julius Drake gives the music an almost terrifying angularity.
He was the leader who had to win at everything, a man of huge energy and almost terrifying commitment.
And then when he finds someone brought up to think independently, she's a bit too much for him -- almost terrifying".
On "Little Imber" (ECM), Giya Kancheli creates these harmonic structures that are so magnificent and huge, almost terrifying.
Indeed, I kept thinking of Sander as I visited a recent show of Dürer's graphic art at the British Museum, which gave off an almost terrifying sanity.
It was difficult, almost terrifying, to step through this door despite the fact that no slave has been forced through it for two centuries.
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It seems almost terrified of democracy itself.
I gasped and moaned, "No-o-o-o-o" in a hopeless, almost terrified way.
In a year in which some of the very best albums have seemed almost terrified of repeating themselves, knitting together disparate influences like garish loom band bracelets, Lost in the Dream is defiantly whole cloth.
We're territorial, guarded, and almost terrified of the idea that our music might fall into the wrong hands.
And it's almost completely terrifying.
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