Alone, these numbers are frightful.
Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
Finally, in yet another sign of a tapped-out economy, October's Consumer Sentiment numbers were released on Halloween and, fittingly, were frightful.
In 1947, she opened on Broadway in a musical revue, "Angel in the Wings," in which she sang "Civilization," a satirical number expressing an African's thoughts about frightful aspects of modern life, including the lament: "Bongo bongo bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo".
Or he may turn out to be pretty frightful.
"Reveal" includes a frightful tribute to the rock pianist Tori Amos, an overblown waltz and one cloying number containing the lyric "You give a little sneeze and dance the rhu-rhu-rhu-rhu-rhumba".
If the weather's frightful, people will mostly freak out, but you can turn that around.
In 1733, Dr George Cheyne speculated that the English climate, combined with sedentary lifestyles and urbanisation, "have brought forth a class of distemper with atrocious and frightful symptoms, scarce known to our ancestors, and never rising to such fatal heights, and afflicting such numbers in any known nation.
The dwindling number of contestants in The Apprentice (BBC 2) look increasingly like the survivors of some frightful shipwreck, who are reduced to killing and eating the weakest every Wednesday.
