Sentence examples for terrifying risk from inspiring English sources

And, considering that several Westerners have recently been beheaded, he did so at terrifying risk.

A clone studio typically regards the days, weeks or months that a designer says she needs as nothing but terrifying risk.

Can you even imagine the terrifying risk of this?

With Mayfest, we're lucky – we do get funding – but we rely a lot on support-in-kind and take a terrifying risk on our box office.

But beneath its guilty-pleasure surfaces (or maybe kilt-y ones), the show is surprisingly analogous to "The Americans": it's a smart wartime drama that's gripping precisely because it takes sex so seriously, treating it as life's deepest joy and its most terrifying risk, as dramatic as any act of violence.

From its earliest days, nanotechnology has had its fear-mongers, warning of novel and terrifying risks.

Their affair is his delight and her obsession; vacillating between the prudent course and the pleasant one, she exposes herself to terrifying risks.

Khrushchev wanted a resolution to the contest over Berlin, yet he chose the most dangerous possible way to force one: via nuclear confrontation in Cuba.This choice generated terrifying risks.

But if the shootings had turned ordinary errands into terrifying risks, the early-morning arrests of the two men the authorities say they suspect were behind the shootings made the most mundane activities seem joyous.

For so many of us who are outsiders, musicians or artists, he showed us a way into ourselves by taking fascinating, elegant, terrifying risks.

And Mr. Hill is supposed to be a pharmaceutical salesman who envies his best friend's acuity and gall but is terrified of risk.