Sentence examples for frightful of from inspiring English sources

The artist explained that he was periodically tormented by malign spirits, the most frightful of which he called the spirit of proportion.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier openly stated he was "not neutral" on the question of the US presidency, and that listening to the Republican candidate's tirades made him "frightful of what will happen to this world" if he came to power.

It is hard to imagine our northern landscape being described as the 'wildest, most barren and frightful of any place.' It is hard to imagine the gateway to Lake District or the Pennines being dismissed as where the 'pleasant part of England was at an end.' Yet these words by Daniel Defoe articulated the views of the majority at the turn of the 18th century.

At heart most of us are frightful of being mocked, horrified of the prospect of embarrassment and utterly unable to cope with the actualities of being embarrassed, and that means that things like the Macarena are more helpful, more genuinely useful than they initially seem.

Joachim Trier's Thelma has been compared to frightful coming-of-age stories like Carrie or Julia Ducournau's Raw, placing emotional journey at its core in a stylish way, which is reason enough to see it unless you're one of those weirdos who can't concentrate during subtitled films.

As a result, there is clear evidence of a frightful coarsening of our discourse and an empowering of hate groups.

A series of vitrines of waxen female genitalia, each a careful rendering of the frightful consequences of a different sexually transmitted disease.

The Moorland Association, whose 200 members own and manage most of the grouse estates in England, denounced it on the grounds that it would invoke the frightful prospect of "encroachment of scrub and trees".

'An American Werewolf in London' is memorable for its groundbreaking special effects – the werewolf transformation scene in particular – the petrifying late-night Tube sequence, Jenny Agutter's comely nurse, the soundtrack (Van Morrison's "Moondance" and "Blue Moon" by Bobby Vinton) and the frightful sight of a gaggle of rotting corpses congregated in a seedy cinema watching a porn film.

She described a frightful tableau of shattered glass, streaks of blood and a trail of torn wreckage, as if the "guts" of the car had "splashed" out.

The Pope's iteration of his church's doctrine on contraception, while on his way to visit Africa where 21 million people in sub-Saharan countries are infected with HIV, millions have died of Aids, and millions of Aids orphans live in frightful conditions of semi-slavery and destitution, has been rightly condemned by many around the world.