Depression is a country that the undepressed can't enter, but Solomon, who has travelled there and knows it well, bends all his energy and talent as a writer to sending us snapshots from this terrifying land (mood, he writes, 'is a frontier like deep ocean or deep space').
Both Blair and Galloway see the Muslim world as something exotic, as either a terrifying land of chaos that needs to be kept in check (Blair) or just a really cool place with merits that need to be unthinkingly promoted (Galloway).
He was frenziedly terrified, landing on bookshelves and doorjambs, smacking into the living-room window, and the commotion made me somewhat panicked, too.
As a mist descended and the sun set, the approaching island looked forbidding – dark granite cliffs topped by jagged, close-cropped hills, and a huge Atlantic swell that made the landing terrifying.
Let them starve in No-Man's-Land!" is terrifying in its historical context, but in today's climate it is profoundly depressing too.
This is the man who fused live-action and animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, devoted almost a decade of his life to motion-capture (The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol), shot a terrifying upside-down plane landing in Flight and directed Forrest Gump, still one of the oddest films ever to win a fistful of Oscars and be clutched to the bosom of the world.
What a terrifying, twisted place the Holy Land has become in the name of God, land and water: led by the shrillest, fueled by hate, trapped in revenge and enveloping all.
A time before we have to stand on the heartless road in an alien land, terrified of turning into something we are not.
There is no mention of the thousands killed in terrifying purges, while attributing disputes over land, which sometimes date back centuries, to communist-era land reform is oversimplistic.
Left without a steady paycheck and with terrifying credit card bills, she lands a position at a financial magazine run by the swoony Luke Brandon Hugh Dancyy), who inexplicably gives her a dollars-and-sense column that becomes a hit with readers who clearly should have looked elsewhere for advice.
Little do they know that far beyond the smog and gaslights, exists a forgotten land - populated by terrifying ancient creatures - from which they may never return.
