"Oh, look at that," you say: Gerald Monroe going into a Carmen Miranda routine, or Marilynn-Ann Evercreech doing something frightful.
And though white imperialists did plenty of frightful things, a good many of their accounts speak of their total enthrallment with what they found: the Taoist idea that intercourse, for example, permitted a man to absorb life-enhancing yin forces, undeniably offered a degree of justification for foreigners to have a great deal of fun.
You can grasp the scope of life beyond your neighborhood, but the distance between you and whatever is "out there" seems insurmountable, and those who move freely between these zones do so with frightful authority.
AS he did so, they heard a frightful crashing in the lounge, and their pool table came flying through two partitions, missing them by inches.
Wood is fascinating on the matter of the crossroads (or, more properly, the trivium, the place where three roads meet) at which Oedipus encounters his fate in the form of his father Laius, whom he slays, thus setting in train the frightful events which, did he but know, had been foretold to him by the oracle.
Alexander's family has threaded a narrative of an abused, frightened woman who, having given birth nine days earlier, did what she thought necessary to survive a frightful night with her abusive husband.
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959), "another frightful ordeal," wrote Sunday Times critic Harold Hobson, did even worse (21% houses).
They got off to a shaky start, and Cutler took a frightful pounding, largely because a leaky offensive line did not allow him time to find the receivers supposedly set free by Martz's intricate scheming.
He urinated and defecated everywhere in the house: on the television, sofa, everywhere… He threw everything from the window of the second floor, everything including waste, tore the window curtains into small pieces… He did not listen to me, but bit me… It is frightful to care for him [ChiP18].
"You mean just as we are repairing the frightful damage done by Labour, you want to put them back in?
