Sentence examples for frightened experience from inspiring English sources

At the onset of the First Elegy, Rilke describes this frightened experience, defining beauty as "... nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us".. Rilke depicted this infinite, transcendental beauty with the symbol of angels.

It was a memorable, and briefly frightening, experience.

Is being on his bad side a frightening experience?

One of the great nature writers describes the awesome, frightening experience of a total eclipse.

Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted it was a "frightening" experience to be around the Manchester United team hotel in Leeds on Tuesday afternoon.

During our first session on water, Jon prepared me for the otherwise frightening experience of "going over," a kayaking term for involuntarily flipping your boat upside down.

"Morphine Drip Sends One Patient on a Long, Strange, Journey" ((Jan . 16 is a vivid description of the writer's frightening experience with morphine for pain.

And then he canceled his private book party, a planned celebration at the Tate Modern gallery on Wednesday night, explaining that he did not want to subject his friends to the "unpleasant and frightening" experience of dealing with protesters.

"La Mer" becomes a thrilling, even frightening experience, but the Ravel "Bolero" brings the perfection of "German engineering" past the point of good taste: it sounds like the background music to the occupation of Paris.

For someone so used to being in control, it's a thrilling, disorienting and frightening experience, heightened further when Madeleine realizes that Leonard's depression is not a passing mood but a serious and chronic condition that could well sabotage their relationship.

On the road out of the village, they chased him for a few miles in two cars (they later told police they had only wanted to stop him and show him some documents).That evening a local journalist interviewed our correspondent about this briefly frightening experience.