Sentence examples for scary without from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brolin makes him seem at once pitiable and scary without making him look like a monster or a clown.

Scary without scaring in places, it is easy to follow, with plenty of action, solid values and honest feelings.

Bedlam writer David Allison agrees that budget isn't everything, and says shows can be scary without having to rely on special effects.

When the Birthday Party split, in 1983, Cave (an Australian who, with his pallor and his shock of dark hair, might have helped Tim Burton imagine Edward Scissorhands) formed his current group, the Bad Seeds, whose recordings have become progressively less ragged and scary, without succumbing to the blandness of most adult rock.

It is said that Disney "knew that the Queen would have to look scary without being too scary".

For one thing, people in other times and places have developed a taste for the fantastically scary, without our cubicle-based lifestyle.

But the director, Robert Harmon, working from a screenplay by Brendan William Hood, is well aware that the unseen is much scarier than the seen (just as pronouns like the one in the title are much scarier without antecedents), and he uses dark shadows and shifting camera angles to suggest their malevolent presence.

He finds colorful quotes from scientists that sound scarier without context.

Opinions at the studio were split between those who believed a motive was needed for resolution and those who felt the action was scarier without one.

Hard to believe but it's a lot scarier without Beethoven's symphony when you're fighting a deranged... thing.

And hospitals, with all their high-tech intensive care and human error, are scary enough without ghosts and psychopaths, even when the supernatural is presented tongue in cheek.