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Terrifying in sentence

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And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our housing a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources.
It's definitely terrifying to stand at the foot of a high bridge, but it's also pretty exhilarating, because it's beautiful up there, and you're looking out on a beautiful view.
This disease was terrifying.
The Tasmanian devil got its name from the terrifying nocturnal scream that it makes.
They were also know as the VIP Boys of Monrovia, terrifying small-time drug addicts whose presence could instill a tremendous amount of fear, although they could not legally carry guns.
We were by no means battered children but we did get hit, and we found it terrifying.
Well nonetheless, on the top of the World Trade Center my first step was terrifying.
The Kraken, a beast so terrifying it was said to devour men and ships and whales, and so enormous it could be mistaken for an island.
This is terrifying because a lot of the big decisions we make require the mastery of lots of different kinds of facts.
Bruno Giussani: You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.
By now, I had the whole frenzied repertoire: terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions.
SR: So you can think of freezing as, you're walking down the street minding your own business, and then out of nowhere you almost run into an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend, and now those terrifying two seconds where you start thinking, "What do I do?
He is absolutely terrifying.
In Greek art and literature, they were depicted as daring and desirable, but also terrifying and deadly, and doomed to die at the hands of Greek heroes.
And look who it gathers: sweet Lestrade, terrifying Tom Ripley, crazy Swann, Marcel Proust himself.
It's terrifying.
Speaking of terror, most people would find the situation you're in right now in Russia pretty terrifying.
You have taken the dreams of that nine-year-old boy, which were impossible and dauntingly scary, dauntingly terrifying, and put them into practice, and figured out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear so that it allowed you to come back with a set of experiences and a level of inspiration for other people that never could have been possible otherwise.
I don't know if that's true for other people, but that notion of thinking about how we can understand the future and predict outcomes, for me, it's terrifying to not know what might be coming.
That is terrifying.
So my brother-in-law goes to interview this killer and he realizes when he meets him that this guy is absolutely terrifying.
In "Alien", they never really showed the alien: terrifying!
There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.
This is really, really useful, because building things is terrifying.
We all knew about the risks, and how terrifying the journey is, and I met many people who lost loved ones at sea.
How did we get to this point where what we have to look forward to is those terrifying numbers?
There might be a way to somehow mitigate some of the risk involved, and this is a very appealing story, because falling in love feels amazing, but it's also terrifying.
But what I have instead is the chance to make the choice to love someone, and the hope that he will choose to love me back, and it is terrifying, but that's the deal with love.
But what causes it, and why is it so universally terrifying?
First part: terrifying, second part: incredibly hopeful.
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