Sentence examples for terrifying degree from inspiring English sources
They've surmounted disease, starvation, predation, and human intervention to become the most populous species of their respective taxonomic categories, evincing an unwavering enthusiasm for reproduction and a terrifying degree of fecundity.
In the early 19th century, the actor Edmund Kean swept away years of tradition with a terrifying degree of emotional realism, verging on incoherence (Coleridge remarked that watching him act was like seeing Shakespeare "illuminated by flashes of lightning" - this was not necessarily meant as a compliment).
We invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day: the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses; and the need to cope with terrifying degrees of pain which arise from our vulnerability to failure, to troubled relationships, to the death of loved ones and to our decay and demise.
Many men, regardless of their country of origin, are terrified of the degree of sexual choice women have, and in my opinion Martin Amis was correct to describe Islamism, the ideology of splenetic woman hatred, as male insecurity on steroids.
In DC, it's 96 degrees, which sounds terrifying – especially to us Europeans who think in centigrade rather than fahrenheit.
A medical degree is an often brilliant and occasionally terrifying experience.
The idea of genetic modifications getting out of hand should terrify us to some degree.
