Sentence examples for frightful shock from inspiring English sources
Good old video ref. For the English, the whole experience came as a frightful shock.
Representations of the religious have become frightful and shocking.
Volume 23 of the Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, published in 1833, described Badajoz as "one of the richest and most beautiful towns in the south of Spain, whose inhabitants had witnessed its siege in silent terror for one and twenty days, and who had been shocked by the frightful massacre".
It came on suddenly, with the second blow — a frightful kind of joy.
Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.
In a measured retrospective of his life, he refers now to "the frightful conflict", as if its horror has at last sunk in, but it is still experienced rather as part of the shock of the new, part of what he calls, famously, "cette longue querelle de la tradition et de l'invention / De l'Ordre et de l'Aventure".
Those frightful Karinska tutus!
They are frightful places.
Frightful medical sights.
