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- adverb In a
terrifying manner.
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Examples
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Characters brighten into glowing complexity and then, trampled by the “march of time,” are all but extinguished in terrifyingly casual flash-forwards that, within the space of a paragraph, effectively write off all the writing that’s been devoted to them.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2006
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Characters brighten into glowing complexity and then, trampled by the “march of time,” are all but extinguished in terrifyingly casual flash-forwards that, within the space of a paragraph, effectively write off all the writing that’s been devoted to them.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2006
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In our world, such a promise is illusory, as already demonstrated in the past at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now so terrifyingly underway in Japan.
Sheldon Filger: Nuclear Power Reactors Do Not Belong on the Surface of the Earth Sheldon Filger 2011
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A collection that showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor.
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Given all that, Reid's only hope was to turn his opponent not just into an unacceptable alternative, but a terrifyingly, hideously, unthinkably awful one.
Did Harry Reid succeed? Greg Sargent 2010
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In our world, such a promise is illusory, as already demonstrated in the past at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now so terrifyingly underway in Japan.
Sheldon Filger: Nuclear Power Reactors Do Not Belong on the Surface of the Earth Sheldon Filger 2011
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If it serves as a wake up call, it should be to the fact that the veneer of civilization can be terrifyingly thin.
London Is Burning 2011
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He has on-the-ground knowledge of the sometimes terrifyingly high and remote places these people lived that few of us will ever see.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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And in Max Ophüls's masterly "Caught" 1949, Ryan is a terrifyingly narcissistic, piercingly lonely control freak who marries to spite his psychiatrist.
Hollywood's Heroic Villain Kristin M. Jones 2011
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The reason is the institutionalized oppression inherent in Islamic law, under which religious minorities are stripped of their legal, religious and social freedoms, and forced to live as second-class citizens or "dhimmis," in a precarious and terrifyingly vulnerable state of existence.
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