Sentence examples for be less frightening from inspiring English sources

Yet the DPJ may be less frightening in office than in prospect.

They decided to call him Mr. Reagan rather than Mr. President; the situation would be less frightening that way.

A hospice nurse told them to buy dark towels for Andrew's crib, so that if he started to bleed uncontrollably, the sight would be less frightening for his siblings and for them.

But I suspect it might be less frightening for a six-year-old to tell himself he killed his father than to live in fear of the caprice of bad luck.

It might be less frightening if computers were genuinely alien and intelligent, much as HG Wells imagined the Martians – "Minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic" – but even the most powerful networks are less human than Wells's monstrous Martians.

This "kitten scanner" both familiarizes children with the machine so that the real thing will be less frightening and helps them learn the importance of lying still during a scan: They can see that if they shake the toy while scanning it, the image is distorted.

"He was an outrageous man who inspires people to be less frightened of their desires," he said.

This caused them to be less frightened of the Nazis, who did not threaten their material interests, than of communist revolutionaries, who did.

People who grew up before effective treatments for HIV were available, and when Aids was the subject of a series of terrifying televised public-health warnings, somehow managed to be less frightened of sex than we are.

At the very least, we will have more civil liberties than we did on 10 Sept 2001 -- not fewer; and we will be less frightened -- not more.

More generally, understanding the progression of different states in the defense cascade will enable the therapist to make predictions (both in general and, in time, for each individual patient) and to help patients understand, and be less frightened and surprised by, the sudden shifts from one body state to another.