Word: frightingly
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...time, the massacres of 1889 are branded vividly on his mind: "Each morning on my way to school I had to pass near a tree where the Turks used to hang Cretan patriots. The first time I saw a corpse dangling from the tree I was almost sick with fright. He was half nude, his greenish tongue stuck out from an open mouth and he smelled very bad. As I tried to turn away, father took me by the hand and ordered me to 'keep my eyes open.' Father forced me to approach the dead...
...chip as a monocle. Harper's Bazaar publishes Garvey's picture with his Matisse eye, and soon half the intelligentsia are playing poker with trompe-l'oeil chips. The neat little spoof suggests that Bradbury would do very well if he came out from under that fright...
...decided that Ed "seemed relaxed and likable with none of the brashness of a hardened performer." This was just the kind of man CBS wanted as M.C. of a projected Sunday-night variety show. When Toast of the Town went on TV, Ed was so petrified with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire...
...victim lying flat, advised Dr. Alfred Soffer in Today's Health. A faint, he explained, is a cure in itself-nature's way of boosting circulation to the heart and brain when blood is being drained to other parts of the body in a complex reaction to fright, shame, drugs or pain...
...middle-aged married psychologist. She is deeply in love with him when, after her mother's death, she goes to live in a sort of religious Bleak House with two devout great-aunts and a paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem...