I think yes, frightening.
BATES -- It's always frightening, yes.
If you're basically happy, then to be alienated from that is, yes, disturbing, even frightening.
They understand the benefits of imaginary horror: yes, this is frightening, but ultimately it can be dealt with, at least in fictional form.
So, yes, it is frightening to read that Mel Gibson replied, upon being asked if his movie would upset Jewish people, that "anybody who transgresses has to look at their own part or look at their own culpability".
"I mean, yes, it's frightening to find out how many kids there are who don't know how many world wars there were or that the overwhelming number of American students cannot identify Winston Churchill, with some even thinking he's an African-American civil rights leader or an American Civil War leader".
They are frightening, yes, but they are not all-powerful.
And yes, a truly frightening one.
"Well, there's nothing I can do about it, but it's frightening, yes," says Carrington, who seldom watches television and skims the morning newspaper only "to see if anything awful is about to happen". A few minutes later, the conversation turns to the suicide attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I think there will be more attacks," she said, "So yes I am a bit frightened".
