Sentence examples for frightful prospect from inspiring English sources
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".
The ways in which viewers have been dictating digital programming have become fluid and far-reaching over the last few years, from Kickstarter to fans demanding reboots, but this, industry insiders say, is an entirely new and frightful prospect.
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.
Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
But what makes the prospect of a Romney-Ryan victory truly frightful is the presence of the foreign-policy adviser Dan Senor and his Straussian ilk.
As frightful — or bizarrely normal for Los Angeles — as this all sounds, the prospect of listening to more than four hours of commuting-themed music could frighten off would-be downloaders of Mr. Elkins's opus.
A frightful near term distracts attention from the demographic trends that will shape the medium-term prospects of many economies: The baby drought will undercut Japan, South Korea and, later, China, as well as Russia and parts of Western Europe.
Poverty is particularly frightful from the lens of old age, when there are few, if any, opportunities to enhance one's prospects and the only escape hatch seems to be death.
Those frightful Karinska tutus!
