Sentence examples for frightful thing from inspiring English sources

A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

Oh expectation, what a frightful thing art thou, when kindled more by fear than hope!

An indie drama without a budget can be a frightful thing.

The look on their faces is as if they are saying, 'What a frightful thing must have happened!

"I ask for a loan, not a gift," said the frightful thing: "lend me your body for three days--you shall have mine to cage your soul the while, and, in payment, my chest.

In tone and language, Mrs. Cheney thus conveyed that (a) her daughter is not openly gay; (b) to be gay is a frightful "thing"; and (c) Ms. Roberts was revealing a Cheney family secret.

Frightful things belong where they are now, in the past".

He repeated a chestnut beloved of modernist-bashers, which is that the architects who inflict frightful things on everyone else hypocritically live in agreeable Georgian terraces.

It is to New York City what Cholula is to Mexico, the home of the spirit, a place where frightful things happened, and were covered up, or built upon.

"That these frightful things should be considered at all is beyond me," he wrote to his greatest patron, the banker Grant B. Schley, after seeing a show of new paintings around 1915.

Tony suspects frightful things when Victorine, after the painting is exhibited, announces that she has enough money for them both to go to Australia.George Marion acquits himself with honors in the part of Fleur's father.