But she takes it terrifyingly far, making decisions that leave her and her family vulnerable.
It's an unlikely scenario -- probably even an offensive one to some -- but it's a premise made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer.
The baritone Matthias Goerne gave a terrifyingly believable performance; he made himself a baffled, agitated hulk of a man, his limbs going every which way as if they had minds of their own.
And though, it being Line of Duty, the abuse was only part of a deeper conspiracy, this connection to real-life news events made it terrifyingly plausible and all the more powerful.
Mukherjee, describing experimental chemo regimens of the early sixties, recounts the controversial decisions made to concoct terrifyingly toxic cocktails for child-leukemia patients, while the physicians in charge did what pathetically little they could to make the kids more comfortable.
It's exactly this tension, the striving toward immediate and terrifyingly risky connections, that has made Coleman's music more than music, and has made him one of the great creative adventurers of the century.
Back in 2007, he made a massive (and terrifyingly shoddy looking) "Wall Of Death" so he could ride around almost horizontally on his lil' Honda Skyride.
This is the antithesis of subtlety even for Mr. Hirst, who has pickled a dead shark and made his minions create terrifyingly mundane polka dot paintings.
The effect of generations-worth of marrow-chilling lovelessness made for a story that was, by turns, terrifyingly sad and extraordinarily moving but, finally, left you filling as though your heart had been pumped full of helium.
A simple trick makes it terrifyingly easy to see whether or not someone has muted you on Twitter.
