Sentence examples for fright that from inspiring English sources
It was certainly the first one that suggested the cinematic excitement and genuine fright that J.K. Rowling's books were capable of achieving.
Punching, kicking, elbowing, jerking their hunched bodies around the stage, the ensemble perform a semaphore of fright that resembles a syncopated Billy Blanks Tae Bo cardio workout.
The fright that accompanies a dog bite or a radiation burn, for example, may be said to result from an injury because it arises without any intervening cause, such as a medical examination.
The panic and hysteria that gripped the city's leadership in a moment of crisis has now spread outward, a sizable stain of unreason and fright that will take years to erase.
The snake pit of the title referred to the medieval practice of lowering the mentally ill into snake pits in the belief that a fright that would unhinge a sane person would cure an insane one.
She cites the Pintupi of Australia, who have words for 15 kinds of fear, including "nginyiwarrarringu", a spasm of fright that causes someone to jump up and look about them.
It was faintly shocking to see Cameroon equalise and the bout of stage-fright that briefly gripped Brazil.
Instead the series invests in those frights that aren't frightening and in sex that (this being network TV) stops at the PG-13 threshold.
The movies are where many of us first learn to shudder at creaking floorboards, slow-turning doorknobs and all the other delicious, familiar frights that repeatedly bring us back for another genre helping.
The material goes beyond scares and bloody violence to achieve under-the-skin frights that seep into your soul and ask deep, troubling questions.
With "Insidious: Chapter 2" we get exactly what we're looking for — squirm-in-your-seat frights that make us cover our eyes, giggle nervously and wish for our mommies.
