Sentence examples for fairly frightening from inspiring English sources

"He translates something which is already fairly frightening into something almost cozy," William Shawn, the magazine's second editor, said.

The weight of Corten steel on either side makes the walk fairly frightening, but then, emerging at last into the open space at the center, you get a jolt of euphoria, space rushing away from you on all sides and the whole vast form becoming buoyant and seemingly weightless.

In this atmosphere of uncertainty, small wonder that there was a surge in dancing, drinking and impressive use of drugs, mainly opium, morphine and cocaine (socialite Diana Cooper briefly developed a fairly frightening morphine habit that was cured when her husband craftily pointed out she would lose her looks).

The Mini S is fairly frightening to ride at times, there's something a bit more comforting about the extra length and flex of the longboards.

It's a pretty intense experience, and I'd say a fairly frightening one, too.

In her previous memoir, Yesterday Morning, publishing veteran Diana Athill envisaged that 'probably' the knowledge that 'death can't fail to come fairly soon is seriously frightening', aligning herself with the not-yet-frightened.

The silent appearance of the labiaplasty as fairly common practice is frightening.

None of this daunted Diodotus, whose counter-argument began with a paean to the power of debate: "The good citizen," he insisted, "ought to triumph not by frightening his opponents, but by beating them fairly in argument".

Sound frightening?

Sometimes, frightening.

Why frightening?