Sentence examples for pure fright from inspiring English sources

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The most debonair gesture of the week was made by Slaone's in a flurry of pure fright.

Howard and Romeyn Berry The New Yorker, October 2, 1937 P. 11 The most debonair gesture of the week was made by Slaone's in a flurry of pure fright.

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"Oxenfree" mixes its terror with plenty of playfulness, creating a game in which wonder and ambiguity rather than pure frights and boos are a priority.

In 2009 (the same year a restored version of director Ted Kotcheff's sun-baked classic Wake in Fright finally hit the shelf) Pure Shit belatedly arrived in a fancy three-disc DVD box set.

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

If Meursault in Camus's The Outsider killed an Arab on the beach because he was hot and bothered, John in Wake in Fright takes that existential despair – tormented partly by pure happenstance – to a heightened level.

Resi 6 featured several scenes of pure lunacy oh, my, Jake's entire motorcycle getaway and what it lacked in frights it compensated for with utterly stupid action.

Stage fright?

People's weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.

Bondholders also took fright.

"Hi, had a fright?

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