Word: frightens
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...sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues the Faulkner tradition by a murder, a lynching and a good deal of morbid fornication...
Following her surrender to police, and conferences with a lawyer named O'Brien, Mrs. Pollak revealed that her husband had been in the habit of mauling her when she displeased him, that she had shot ("to frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer...
Thus emerged in the campaign "the Garner issue"?an attempt by the G. O. P. to frighten the conservative electorate with the spectre of what would happen if a Texas "wild man" like Nebraska's William Jennings Bryan were placed within one step of the White House...
...sidewalks seemed to frighten Park Commissioner Walter R. Herrick. Sadly he announced that he had no alternative but to refuse permission since the New York City Charter states...
Before sitting down to write, Mr. de Valera had shouted to a Dublin throng, "Britain cannot frighten us!" These words were received with such enthusiasm that the President was swept in a friendly Irish way by the crowd through a picket fence...