Sentence examples for frightening like from inspiring English sources

All great changes have come from people or events that were initially misunderstood, and seemed frightening, like madmen.

They seem to me part thrilling, part frightening, like the end of one world, or the beginning of another.

Sometimes even I find the merchandise frightening, like the stack of fluffy car beds: a Hollywoof Limo and a red Furrari.

Some people find it frightening – like a crime scene preserved – but the association he draws between quilt and paint, bed and canvas is intimate and somehow comic; as if there were very little distance between getting down to work and messing about in bed.

Their intelligence makes them as relatable as they are frightening, like this Canadian crow who stole the internet's heart at knifepoint.

Respondents were asked to indicate their agreement on a 5- point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) with the following items: "I would like to explore strange places"; "I like frightening things"; I like new and exciting experiences, even if I have to break the rules"; and "I prefer friends who are exciting and unpredictable".

He himself would rather sell up than pay up, but "a lot of other people are frightened like a rabbit in front of a snake .Alexander Bazoev, boss of a big Vladikavkaz construction firm, says that, because "nobody knows what will happen tomorrow", big companies are scared to invest; young people are moving away and the labour pool is drying up.

And while there is no doubt as to how Mr. Kushner feels about Cohn's politics and the damage they have wrought, "Angels" casts an ultimately compassionate eye on a man who is, in extremis, lost and frightened, like everyone else in the play.

The most shocking revelation comes in the typewriter scene, where Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall, who does frightened like nobody else and is film's answer to Edvard Munch's The Scream, discovers that her husband has typed, over and over, nothing but reams of the same phrase: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".

I'll still be nervous and apprehensive, but I won't be frightened like I was the first time.

But looming over, above and all round it is a frightening Frankenstein-like big brother.