Sentence examples for downright frightened from inspiring English sources

In cases of sexual assaults, victims both women and men are often either reluctant or downright frightened to go to the police, and the courts are terrible at prosecuting sexual assault.

"His recall is downright frightening".

Sometimes the blooms can be downright frightening.

From last September to March, it was downright frightening.

Jon Soltz, an Iraq War veteran and chairperson of VoteVets, the largest progressive veterans group, called Bolton's appointment "downright frightening".

It ends with a song about suicide, which she sings in a husky voice that is downright frightening.

I'm not sure there has ever been an architect whose work was as seductive, as beautiful, as exhilarating, and as downright frightening as Paul Rudolph's.

An Oct. 7 editorial says President Bush's speech on Thursday "suggested an avoidance of today's reality that seemed downright frightening".

Those fans were in the wrong, as were Ron Artest and his teammates when their emotions exploded into a total loss of self-restraint and control that became downright frightening.

By Paul Goldberger November 8, 2010 I'm not sure there has ever been an architect whose work was as seductive, as beautiful, as exhilarating, and as downright frightening as Paul Rudolph's.

In the past two weeks, baseball has been somewhat in the shadow of Alex Rodriguez and his mates, playing up to their potential, which is to say, impressive, although to some fans it may have been downright frightening, demoralizing.