Sentence examples for frightening us from inspiring English sources

Lester, you're frightening us!

Says Andrew: "Hitchcock knew how to push buttons; his idea of 'pure cinema' was about frightening us.

And let's bear in mind what he has not done: he has not lied to us anywhere near as much as most politicians do, and he has not tried to govern by frightening us, either.

As with "All in the Family," the best of these dramas shoved TV forward with a rough charisma, blasting through piety and formula, frightening us and turning us on — and, often, dividing the audience in two.

With daily bulletins frightening us about our national fatness and disease (possibly related to fast food), coupled with increasingly educated -- not to say fussy -- palates, will fast food become an artifact of the ancient, ignorant past?

For decades they have been frightening us into accepting ever higher prices with their postured concerns of the imminent demise of oil.

"It is but our own fraud which frightens us", wrote Cicero; "it is our own evil thoughts which madden us".

His paintings and prints make the potency of night terrors real and frightening – but what frightens us is not witchcraft but superstition, madness and human irrationality.

It was used to frighten us into shutting up and abiding by frightening rules.

The phenomenon frightens us.

Nothing will frighten us".