The killing of Syed Saleem Shahzad is yet another terrifying reminder to Pakistani journalists.
The newly renovated Stasi Museum is a terrifying reminder of how all-encompassing the Stasi really was.
On paper this sounds hokey, a facile equivalence between Jews and blacks, but onstage it works as an insistent, mostly terrifying, reminder of difference.
And yet her presence in the courts was also a terrifying reminder that she was being asked to prove that she was worthy of freedom.
It is a terrifying reminder of the destructive power of infectious disease, one all the more devastating given how far Liberia has come.
What's Your Problem? (Sherry Ashworth, Livewire, £4.99, 11+) provides a terrifying reminder of just how little ammunition a proficient bully needs.
It's a terrifying reminder of how many of these hugely destructive weapons are still routinely deployed and how little thought is given to keeping them as safe and secure as possible.
That our offspring might pass away before we do is an affront to our humanness, to our sense of evolutionary order — a terrifying reminder, as the British biologist Julian Huxley once put it, of "the persistence of chance and its amorality in human life".
The explosion in the center of the city was a terrifying reminder of the continuing vulnerability of civilians in Helmand as American, Afghan and British soldiers waged sporadic gun battles on the 11th day of an offensive against the Taliban stronghold in Marja, a town a few miles away.
