Sentence examples for frightfully long from inspiring English sources
Famously intractable and, as Auden himself noted, "frightfully long", it follows four characters who meet in a wartime bar in New York, discuss metaphysics, undertake allegorical journeys and explore their feelings of existential loneliness.
Before the ceremony the delightful director of the gallery told me that last year's speech had been frightfully good, and only 10 minutes long.
Not so with the Conservatives, where it's incredibly easy to get stuffed and pissed up for free on the corporate pound, so long as you can bear someone boring on about the frightfully important work that happens at ports.
But when it functions as the long arm of the labor unions, which it often does, it can be frightfully difficult".
Much of the movie's dramaturgy is tiresome: the American doctor rails against the Nazi in scene after scene, long after he has proved his honor; Rabe's relationship with his wife is frightfully noble.
One frightfully clever, the other frightfully decent.
The day began frightfully.
Relaxed, interested and frightfully British.
