It's an implicit association test, designed to gauge subliminal attitudes by measuring latency of response between exposure to an image on a screen and the pressing of a button next to words like beautiful, frightening, good, wrong.
The first encounter happens in a scaring class, when the hard-working Mike — who looks like a cross between a walking eyeball and a spit-polished Granny Smith apple — is overshadowed by Sulley, who's arrived believing that he can coast on his family's frightening good name.
I must remember to be silent when I fall off roofs.' 'But I wasn't frightened.' 'Good.' Tug began to sniff.
In a diary entry from 1962, her friend Noël Coward wrote of a visit from Ms. Stritch that prompted his secretary, Cole Lesley, to give her "a list of five words which must never again cross her lips -- guilt, problem, scared, frightened, insecurity!" Good advice.
It is frightening how good she is and hard to imagine anything she could not do.
He also argues, in Pros tous, that easily memorized, abbreviated formulations of the cardinal maxims are useful, and he gives us (IV 9 14) the pithiest formulation of Epicurean tenets, the 'Fourfold Drug' (tetrapharmakos logos): 'god is not fearsome, death not frightening, the good easily got, the bad easily endured'.
It's heartening to hear that although the artworld's latest prodigy has confidence, two million hits a year to his website and a second exhibition under way, he's still frightened of a good ticking off.
In fact Machado says she gained only a fraction of that weight but she didn't dare correct him; she was already frightened he'd make good on a threat to strip her of her crown if she didn't follow through on the performance at the gym.
Charles Peace was a Victorian villain, a name used to frighten children into good behaviour.
An experience that was revolting, harsh, and frightening was a good day there.
