Sentence examples for frightful form from inspiring English sources
The engraved panel in in the north end of the aisle is considered to be a unique sculpture, and shows Bhairava, or Virabhadra, a frightful form of Shiva.
It came on suddenly, with the second blow — a frightful kind of joy.
Bhairava (Sanskrit: ), "terrible" or "frightful", is a fierce form associated with annihilation.
I have heard the agonizing shrieks of the wounded and dying – I have passed over the battle field and seen the mangled forms of men and horses in frightful abundance – men without heads, without arms, and others without legs.
Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
Johnson (1724) described him as "such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful".
Wood is fascinating on the matter of the crossroads (or, more properly, the trivium, the place where three roads meet) at which Oedipus encounters his fate in the form of his father Laius, whom he slays, thus setting in train the frightful events which, did he but know, had been foretold to him by the oracle.
And the poem as a whole returns at its close to the theme of death, with the disquieting passage on the frightful Athenian plague during the Peloponnesian War: whether or not this, as we have it, is in its finished form, there can be little doubt that the placing of its theme itself somehow represents the author's own orchestration.
Those frightful Karinska tutus!
