"The prospect is frightening," he said.
Three Sisters will be frightening, he hopes, and speak to our own anxieties about politics.
Yet it is "intimidating and frightening," he said, "to think a doctor could have been prosecuted under such vague language".
In the figure of the nihilist Bazarov, uncouth, truthful, frightening, he created one of the most disturbing of anti-heroes.
The outlook, said Few, is "quite frightening"; he is contemplating drastic measures, such as withdrawing the social care discharge teams that work at the county's hospitals.
The idea of putting any form of the AIDS virus into people sounds a bit frightening, he acknowledged, but the virus used by his team was "gutted" and was no longer harmful.
Harris barely knew his father during that period, but his stories about him are frightening — he told the Buffalo News that Matt broke into his mother's house and beat her when he was a baby.
In the late 80s, high unemployment, gangs and a spiralling crime rate made living in Balsall Heath frightening, he tells me.
Archie became increasingly dangerous to them, not to mention frightening: he began to think he could receive messages from his unconscious via a Ouija board, and he claimed he could change his face into Napoleon's at will.
"The anti-Semitism feeling around Europe is frightening," he said.
"The arrogance of the man at times is frightening," he said.
