Sentence examples for the terrifying task from inspiring English sources

"IF SOUTH AFRICA won't do it, who will?" The "it" is the terrifying task of peacekeeping in Congo, and the question is asked, quite reasonably, by Greg Mills, a political analyst.

So with the help of a lawyer, we tackled the terrifying task of creating a not-for-profit foundation.

People are nervous and they don't want to look awkward, so they resort to using their phones to save them from the terrifying task of actually getting to know someone.

The mind is both slave and master of the body's appetites, and the absurd and terrifying task of stabilizing that dynamic, in theory and in practice, is embraced equally by the film and the fragile, serious historical figures who inhabit it.

Just keeping the euro on the rails over the next few months and years is going to be a terrifying task.

Pothole repair: not the usual stuff of headline-making heroism, but in Iraq a dangerous and terrifying task, requiring nerves and guts of steel.

Settling into a terrifying task in which he seeks forgiveness and reconciliation, he first surprises his inherited staff by offering to keep them on.

This intelligent, bookish child has discovered a secret labyrinth beneath the house inhabited by a magnificent, awe-inspiring faun who hails Ofélia as a Princess, but tells her she must carry out terrifying tasks to enter into her destiny; this she does, without telling the grown-ups of this strange other world beneath their feet.

The terrifying waiting began.

The beauty belies the terrifying implications.

The terrifying effect is of a sort of exorcism.