Sentence examples for so chilling that from inspiring English sources

Its slightly sloping floors threatened to pitch you back 100 years, and the wintertime drafts were so chilling that Mr. Weprin wore silk long johns to work.

The result was so chilling that in the evenings Belfast was turned into a ghost town, with most bars and restaurants closed and most streets deserted.The "marching season" is always viewed with dread by political moderates.

But the elements could also serve as challenges: Death Valley air so hot it was like facing a firing squad of 10,000 hair dryers, rain near Mono Lake so chilling that side-of-the-road jumping jacks were all we could do for warmth.

The cause of his death was so unusual, so baffling and so chilling that a senior British official called it "unprecedented". The government called a high-level meeting restricted to the most senior ministers — codenamed Cobra — and the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office.

Yesterday, a lawyer for Ahmed Abdel Sattar, one of Ms. Stewart's codefendants, contended that another form of federal monitoring -- new rules announced by the Bush administration last fall that allow the government to listen to inmates' conversations with lawyers -- was so chilling that Mr. Sattar was "unwilling to speak to counsel, knowing he may be monitored".

It is a change so subtle, and so chilling, that I actually stood up, powerfully deflecting my gluten-free mac and cheese somewhere in the vicinity of the carpet and screamed, "IT'S HIM!!!" If Breaking Bad is like a Beckett play, then this episode is like Waiting for Godot, if Godot finally decided to show up.

What is so chilling is that what you did was calculated and deliberate.

What makes the centenary so chilling is that today Chlorine is still being used to kill and spread terror, this time on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.

The longueurs resemble a stoner's ramblings, but they have a structural purpose, leading the film meandering and gibbering and zombie-walking up to its very disturbing finale, whose ultimate revelation wouldn't be quite so chilling without the twilit bewilderment that came before.

And it was the message of the Manchester blast that was so chilling: the slaughter of teenagers, the anxiety of parents who had been waiting to take their children home, the frantic search for loved ones amid chaos and sirens.

"The power of the weapon, the number of bullets that hit each child, that was so, to me, just so chilling, it haunts me.