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354 examples of Alarming in a sentence

Now there's a lot of research on how we think about work when we are not at work, and the findings are quite alarming.
Manias can be alarming.
When you start talking about using magnetic pulses to change people's moral judgments, that sounds alarming.
So, here's an alarming thought.
And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that obesity has also been triggering great increases in heart disease and diabetes to the point where a child born today has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes.
This may all sound really quite alarming to some people, an index of something worrying or wrong in society.
Even at this full (?) running time, figures appear and disappear with alarming suddenness: the Deborah character is fleetingly established in child form, a cold and unattainable 'trophy' female, not even hinting at the gravity with which she will re-establish her relationship with a post-prison Noodles, the said re-union henceforth rings completely false.
For an aspiring writer he had next to no imagination (his violent fantasies looked like they were ripped off from "A Christmas Story" and his lustful ones were--huh, a cross between boring and alarming).
Mickey Rourke, with alarming red hair, confesses all to the priest (Bob Hoskins, of all people) who accidentally witnessed the shooting.
Today we tend to take celebrity endorsements for granted, giving little thought to its more alarming implications.
Adams, her beautiful face in alarming contrast to her twisted body, exhibits great pathos and sympathy.
His personal crisis is coming to a head and his hospital's falling down around him, as local residents demonstrate against the hospital and patients and doctors are dying at an alarming rate, thanks to a biblically-inspired and murderous saboteur.
What is so intriguing in this story is that the hero becomes trapped in a claustrophobic situation in which he finds himself the vigorously pursued object of desire and he is quite powerless to extricate himself from the alarming circumstances.
To top that off, children are disappearing and adults are being murdered at an alarming rate.
What we have here is a series of silly softcore movies of the type that used to turn up with alarming regularity on cable channels late at night.
After reporting to duty, she wakes up (Having Been Drugged) in a vast Manderley-like pile on the Cornish coast, supposedly as the barmy-in-the-crumpet wife of George Macready, who displays an alarming interest in knives and ice picks.
Unfortunately, the original Eating Out was an assaultive, self-impressed cacophony of alarming pseudo-rape scenes, caustic one-liners, and hateful stereotypes.
Leaving aside the overly melodramatic narration, the way that the narrator/director mispronounces many Thai words and shows an alarming lack of local knowledge, I saw no attempts to check the stories he was being fed, and no background information was looked into to validate the stories he reported.
Danielle De Luca stars as Diana, a naive young woman who ends up working in a seedy strip joint in a town where game hunting is an obsession and women seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate.
Whether this is a stalker's attempt to desperately get a date with a actress he adores, or a clever ploy to jump start some sort of career for Herzlinger (I'm thinking more the latter), the fact remains that whichever it is, te film is manipulative at best and slightly alarming at worst.
But also across town more weird murders are alarming the authorities.
Moreover, Hooper's wise decision to keep the violence largely off-screen enhances rather than detracts from the film's alarming power to scare and disturb; this welcome and refreshing concession to the viewer's imagination ensures that the movie never deteriorates into a mindless and revolting bloodbath while still allowing the jolting outbursts of sudden brutal violence to retain their ability to startle the audience.
Come to find out the fetus(which is growing at an alarming rate)is actually the spirit of a powerful medicine man, Misquamacas!
An alarming percentage of the running time seems to be spent watching people putting up and taking down tents and other fairground attractions.
This may be the single most boring "slasher" film of the 80s - containing an alarming lack of gore and nudity, the stuff that this genre survives on.
Chaney's performance is remarkable and, at times, genuinely alarming, and the very young Joan Crawford is a typical, but nevertheless appealing silent film heroine.
Aside from the weak-ass cannibal family, and the Leatherface acting like an overgrown teenager, the film itself moves along at an alarming pace that left me feeling unfulfilled, in a sense.
Furthermore, nobody finds this particularly alarming.
David and Sue, through the permission of base commander Hal(George Kennedy, really slumming it..he must've really needed the cash), bring this female, named Karen(Yvonne Saa), inside the the installation paying dire consequences..she is carrying a monster fetus growing at an alarming rate.
People start coming in and out of his house at an alarming rate and he is deeply involved in all sorts of silly intrigue.
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