Sentence examples for so frightful from inspiring English sources
You to whom I have devoted all my energy, all my intelligence, how could they accuse me of so frightful a crime?" The embrace of France is as unwavering as the assertions of innocence.
In a few summer weeks, colonial servants scribbled lines across the map of the mighty subcontinent, carving East and West Pakistan out of Mother India, and sparking a bloodbath so frightful that no one to this day knows exactly how many millions died.
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen," the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were once, as they said back in the day, imprinted on the mind of every schoolboy.
You can grasp the scope of life beyond your neighborhood, but the distance between you and whatever is "out there" seems insurmountable, and those who move freely between these zones do so with frightful authority.
Sewell dismissed it all as "a show defiled by feminist claptrap", in particular a "frightful" female nude by Vanessa Bell that was so "ugly and incompetent, it could hardly be the favourite of even a purblind lesbian".
The weather outside is frightful, so enjoy while you have the chance.
Sure, the weather outside is frightful, so now's the time to go somewhere delightful and preferably warm.
The weather outside won't be frightful, so consider some ice skating at the Holiday at the Park celebration at the new entertainment and retail district between the Monte Carlo and New York-New York.
AS he did so, they heard a frightful crashing in the lounge, and their pool table came flying through two partitions, missing them by inches.
Indeed, if I understand correctly the way the Games are now being talked about – and it's all the most frightful cobblers, so forgive any misapprehensions – Jessica Ennis winning gold is no longer merely a sporting aspiration but something that would cause a massive and immediate recalibration in the balance of payments.
In his other works he experimented more with less traditional approaches to reality, so that "the most frightful, the most unusual things are told with the deadpan expression".
