Sentence examples for of fright that from inspiring English sources

Punching, kicking, elbowing, jerking their hunched bodies around the stage, the ensemble perform a semaphore of fright that resembles a syncopated Billy Blanks Tae Bo cardio workout.

She cites the Pintupi of Australia, who have words for 15 kinds of fear, including "nginyiwarrarringu", a spasm of fright that causes someone to jump up and look about them.

The specters that haunted last week's news -- the crash of the Concorde in France, the discovery of West Nile-infected mosquitoes in Central Park, the failed hijacking at Kennedy International Airport -- were similar in one respect: they were loaded with the mysterious freight of fright that can seize one, whether it makes scientific sense or not.

He trembled with fear when he was taken before an officer for interrogation and was in such a state of fright that he could not talk readily.

The panic and hysteria that gripped the city's leadership in a moment of crisis has now spread outward, a sizable stain of unreason and fright that will take years to erase.

As such, it has been successfully employed in its diluted homeopathic form for almost two centuries to treat states of panic and fright that are accompanied by palpitations.

The source of her fright: that five years after undergoing treatment for cancer she is going to get horrible news about her health.

It was faintly shocking to see Cameroon equalise and the bout of stage-fright that briefly gripped Brazil.

Genteel ambience wrangled from squirmy synthesizers is largely the rule, but when percussive, Carpenter-indebted electronics slice into the mix with a start, it's hard not to think of the frights that lurk around even the most innocent-seeming corners. Colin Joyce.

But it's that "moment of both joy and fright" that really gets me.

Then there's the small matter of the paralysing stage fright that, both in his Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things days, prompted him to down a bottle of whisky before stepping on stage, and often another one after the show had finished.