Sentence examples for vague fright from inspiring English sources

In his book "Lombard Street", he cautioned central bankers to beware the "great risk of diffused fear":by this I do not mean absolute panic, but only a vague fright and timorousness which spreads itself instantly, and as if by magic, over the public mind.

Alejandro Amenábar's film enters the vaguely Victorian world of English fright fiction.

The year is 1945, but the house and its inhabitants -- a strict, high-strung mother, her two children and three servants dressed in funereal black -- belong to the timeless, vaguely Victorian world of classic English fright fiction.

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

Stage fright?

Bondholders also took fright.

"Hi, had a fright?

June 1-25: "Stage Fright".

What a fright.

They have stage fright".

Silent Circle took fright.