Sentence examples for terrifying place from inspiring English sources

It made the theater a terrifying place.

That might not be such a great achievement but it's a undeniable phenomenon, a game-changer that turned daytime television into an entirely different, somewhat terrifying place.

More than 100 Filipinos are being held by the Somali pirates who have made the Gulf of Aden a terrifying place to sail.

In an interview with an American magazine, the London-born writer says she believes that England has become a disgusting and terrifying place, populated by what she calls "aspirational arseholes".

One has to respect that decision, made because he feels it would be too painful, but it is a shame – the jail is a menacing, terrifying place and his first-hand descriptions would have added to our understanding of what his father endured and why Abu Salim is central to many Libyans' hatred of Gaddafi.

Cringeworthy jokes about Gwen Stefani's "classical" music and tired references to total absence of books aside, her America at the end of the 21st century is a genuinely terrifying place of toxic-waste slums, day-long traffic jams, blistering heat and bulging-at-the-seams old people's homes.

Broken Harbour delves deep into the terrifying places imagination can take us, as French explores the descent of a mind into insanity.

PI: Australia does haunt me as few other places do, and not so long ago I was even contemplating a book about Jerusalem and the Australian Desert, two charged and vibrant and sometimes terrifying places, which exert an almost hypnotic appeal on many of us, and yet, on the face of it, could not seem more different in terms of their relation to the human.

Even though the reality of schools nowadays is very different from the terrifying places they were with bullying and violence rife, as was vividly recorded at the time in Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days and FW Farrer's Eric, or, Little by Little, most stories about school can be pretty off putting!

If cemeteries are terrifying places, how can they also be the place they go to visit her father?

When any given person has a crisis in confidence, and is placed in a terrifying situation, they will tend to behave in a predictable way: first, they submit to the rule of those who seem to have greater competence in the most relevant task, and second, they will surround themselves with that mass of persons who share a similarly low level of confidence.