Sentence examples for that fright from inspiring English sources

The wonder is that Mr. Kasdan should prove, as a horror director, to be so utterly incompetent, completely indifferent to the special discipline that fright imposes.

But that's OK, they've just had a brush with an ancient powerful energy as old as the stone itself – how can any of us possibly quantify that?" Fright Night: The Stone Tape, 10pm, Radio 4, Saturday 31 October.

It is inevitable that "Fright Night," a 3-D remake of a tongue-in-cheek, tooth-in-neck frightener from 1985, includes a mocking reference to "Twilight," the vampire juggernaut that serves as both its target and its reason for being.

Love's work consists in conquering that fright.

It is impossible to know what lies behind that fright, but it is tempting to ask: how does a sensitive child, born in 1942, begin to deal with what a German-speaking crowd had bayed for, and portended, in the recent past?

A review from 2000 in Empire magazine called the film "a fabulous fantasy" and wrote that "David Bowie cuts a spooky enough figure in that fright wig to fit right in with this extraordinary menagerie of Goth Muppets.

The snake pit of the title referred to the medieval practice of lowering the mentally ill into snake pits in the belief that a fright that would unhinge a sane person would cure an insane one.

The feeling that a fright can make us "jump half out of our skin" is based on this physical reality — we're reacting long before we know what it is that we're reacting to.

Some Native American tribes reportedly believe that a fright can induce labour, and other cultures believe that starving the mother in the last week of pregnancy will encourage the baby to emerge in search of a feed.

She writes movingly and sensibly about this in the book and seems to have come to the realisation that stage fright isn't itself a thing to be frightened of.

The current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-IV, acknowledges that stage fright (and shyness in social situations) is common and not necessarily a sign of illness.