I'm not exactly terrified, but my heart is pounding in my chest.
Still, she's not exactly terrified.
While Frank Underwood isn't exactly terrified by a ghost, he does talk to Peter Russo's ghost when he visits a church after he murders Russo.
It was terrifying, but exactly what I wanted, as it threw me straight into the role I had trained for".
The unknown is exactly that--different, terrifying, full of opportunities we haven't experienced (and may not want to).
But I am still haunted by its grim geography – the dark corridors and lifts, the memorably claustrophobic apartment, the protagonist's awkward sexual awakening and, of course, that terrifying evocation of exactly how it might feel to dismember the freshly dead.
It would be difficult to attend conferences like TED, the World Economic Forum, The Clinton Global Initiative, etc., without there being at least a few mesmerizing and terrifying lectures about exactly how our little lives will disappear and soon.
Non-flaming monkeys aren't exactly known for keeping their shit together, so flaming monkeys sound pretty terrifying.
At the time that I was contemplating this fictional mother and her baby, I did not believe that I was insane, exactly, but I was terrified that I was heading that way: the novel would give me the chance to push Jonah's mother over the edge in my place, and explore what might happen.
