Word: fright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disturbing discovery: Even though the other stalls were occupied, mine was the only one from which pee sounds were audible. All around me, I heard a great Zen-like steam of rushing water, but nary a human tinkle. I stopped mid-stream, overtaken by a sudden case of lavatory fright. In the land of toilets so fancy they sport buttons that manufacture artificial "flushing sounds," I had apparently committed a serious bathroom faux...
...Hutton was 79 at this time, and she knew she was nearly spent. But she had that incorrigibly chipper spirit she'd broadcast so fortissimo in her films. "Finally you're gonna die from something. I'll die from stage fright, but it won't be anything else...
Kids can get violent images from movies, TV, DVDs, the Internet. Yet the latest outrage over the feeding of gore to the very young came from one of the oldest forms of commercial communication: the billboard. Ads with grisly graphics from such fright films as Captivity and Dead Silence loomed over children as they went to their Los Angeles--area schools. And if the images didn't scare the young, they upset many parents--and detonated the latest installment in an old debate: Are scary things bad for kids...
...worrying things about the new movies is that they have moved beyond the manufacture of fright (which can be therapeutic for kids) to the lovingly detailed depiction of sadism. The other is that kids might not be traumatized by the genre. Are they so jaded that they instantly ironize every movie gross-out moment and become little connoisseurs of repellent special effects...
...fright wig he was going to wear would have blocked the view of folks behind...