Sentences with phrase «fright at»

That Bitcoin goldrush caused Mt.Gox to struggle with the influx, and BTC traders to take fright at what they thought was a DDoS attack on the exchange — but was in fact Mt.Gox's infrastructure creaking under the strength of demand.

However, Professor Regan writes this week: «Those who took fright at the proposed scale of fixed costs need to appreciate that the figures cited were by way of example and certainly are not set in stone.

Those who took fright at the proposed scale of fixed costs need to appreciate that the figures cited were by way of example and certainly are not set in stone.

It ensures that he doesn't spend his life jumping in fright at every blowing leaf or bird song.

Peter blinked, he hoped the gull would take fright at the mere flutter of his eyelids and fly away.

The Tuscans have struggled to get going thanks chiefly to serious episodes of stage fright at their Stadio Artemio Franchi base, but they thumped out - of - sorts Inter 3 - 0 on Sunday evening.

I've encountered Galanti's ashwagandha all over town, but hadn't met elecampane until I spent a Saturday morning there recently, learning about the herb, watching people's interaction with it (curiosity, mild fright at the bitterness), and sampling everything.

This cocktail may give you a fright at first, but don't let the green colour fool you; this recipe is really just a cucumber margarita in disguise.

He felt pity for those who take fright at the span of a century or whose love is bounded by the frontiers of a nation.

The latest BoA ML survey follows several weeks of rollercoaster markets around the world with investors taking fright at a series of geopolitical and financial risks including Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq and the bailout of Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo.

Thursday's move prompted a painful 8.7 per cent drop in Switzerland's stock market as investors took fright at the worsening outlook for Switzerland's traditional exporters, such as those selling chocolate or ski holidays.

Special features include an isolated score track with music by Michael Hoenig, Audio Commentary with Chuck Russell and Horror Authority Ryan Turek, Friday Night Frights at the Cinefamily featurette and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

We are indeed charged, without any exception, with being timorous, and incapable of defence; frighted at our own shadows; alarm'd at the cry of an infant, the bark of a dog, the whistling of the wind, or a tale of hob - goblins.

There is no spotlight sale this week, instead it's the annual Halloween sale with plenty of frights at a decent price.

Not exact matches

She didn't know that I was in town, so when I appeared at the front of the line, I gave her a real fright.

Investors took fright on the news that a radiation leak was detected at a crippled power plant and residents were warned to stay indoors.

This fails to take into account that whenever man has made a beginning of liberty he has taken fright, retreated, renounced his freedom, and sighed with relief at being able to put his destiny finally in the hands of someone else.

What results from the foregoing is that, confronted by this technico - social embrace of the human mass, modern man, in so far as he has any clear idea of what is happening, tends to take fright as though at an impending disaster.

The company's most unique LTO's include chicken strips in a waffle cone drizzled with maple syrup, pork rind nachos, fresh churros, «Scare - Acha» boneless wings served at Six Flags» Fright Fest Halloween event, and fried everything, including pickles, bananas and Oreos at WTF — What The Fried!

These are just some of the many rides that'll delight and fright thrill enthusiasts at this park.

Steve Bruce was a great player at Manchester United and had some success as a manager as well, most notably when his Hull City side gave Arsenal a big fright in the FA Cup Final a couple of years ago.

The manager of the Chile national team, Jorge Sampaoli, has already given the Gunners a fright this week by admitting that he played our star striker for the full 90 minutes against Brazil in a World Cup qualifying match, despite knowing that he was not fully fit and so was at risk of aggravating the injury Alexis picked up during the Premier League win over Manchester United.

At the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night, Real Madrid got the fright of their lives from Juventus before being saved in injury time by a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty.

Not stage fright, mind you, but she left her breast pump at home and hoped to avoid an accident mid-performance.

Admittedly I was concerned about Fright Fest at Six Flags New England because my girls are pretty young and I know what adults and teens may consider cool would freak them out.

You might feel silly playing some of these games at first, but once you see the impact on your baby, you'll get over your stage fright.

that when emotions run high at the table, children can often enter into a fright, flight or fight mode

We learned earlier in this article that when emotions run high at the table, children can often enter into a fright, flight or fight mode and, subsequently, turn off their appetite, resulting in not eating anything.

At that moment, performance anxiety or stage fright overcame on me: Heart race, blushing and losing my voice.

I totally get being scarred with state fright but I've gotten better at it.

From diamond spider webs to ear - cuffs set with bats, and crystal studs guarded by black diamond skulls, take a look at the Halloween trophies that will give your costume an edge for Fright Night.

Going to the pumpkin patch, shopping for fall fashions (duh), and going to Fright Night at Kennywood.

The Horror Mazes are the unique aspects of the Fright Nights — scary movie - inpired mazes where costumed actors jump out at you from dark corners and meat - locker like passages.

And fingers crossed, I'll be well enough to review a different side of Fear and Dating this weekend, when I check out Fright Nights at Thorpe Park.

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It's a strong (albeit familiar) premise that's immediately threatened by a surprisingly (and distractingly) low - rent visual sensibility, as filmmaker Craig Gillespie, along with cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, has infused Fright Night with a hackneyed artificial darkness - ie it's almost as if the pair were trying to emulate the appearance of David Fincher's movies - that both holds the viewer at arm's length and highlights the laughably unconvincing computer - generated special effects.

Tommy appears at an acting class attended by aspiring thespian Greg Sestero (Dave Franco), a handsome 19 - year - old whose professed ambitions run afoul of his intense stage fright.

While Farpoint is certainly a fun adventure that you'll have a lot of laughs, and frights, with, there's little of narrative or strategic originality here and the idea that this will have a long life of competitive multiplayer seems to be hopeful at best.

In the woods, Francis Lawrence recovers his skills, at least for a while: some of the starts and frights — a bunch of snarling devil baboons, some enveloping poisonous smoke — work in a B - movie - ish way.

Of all the wrenching things I heard at the press conference at HBO headquarters following a screening of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's powerful documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, last but not least was Damian Echols's admission that when he emerged from nearly two decades on death row for a crime he didn't commit, the first movie he saw was... wait for it... the remake of Fright Night.

And when studios do throw money into a fright flick (e.g., Universal's Van Helsing, bankrolled at $ 160 million), the results can be dismal.

Watch Miles react to his parents» anger and his father's uncomfortable teasing, how a picture book and a bedtime story fuels his night frights, and a moment when Miles wakes from a dream, pauses at the top of the stairs, and leaps across the open space above the landing to get to his parents» bedroom.

It's not exactly a photo finish, but considering Fright Night didn't even break the top five, I'm sure Spy Kids 4 is happy to make the cut at all.

This is daring and rule - bending filmmaking at a minimalist scale, a personal, contemplative horror movie, stripped of observable fright but full of unease.

One of the year's more energetic exploitation offerings, the bayou - set «Creature» borrows trappings from «Texas Chainsaw Massacre» and the 1959 cult item «Alligator People» and, for at least three - quarters of its running length, scores very high on the fright - meter.

So compelling is writer - director Joel Potrykus» unnerving scenario — with its largely ambiguous tone of horror dramatically offset at times by explicit frights — that a viewer isn't necessarily bothered by a lack of basic story information about who, what, when, where and why.

Director David Yates manages to create a real sense of tension and fright; the feeling that any of our heroes could be slain at any moment... and sure enough, one does go down.

It is also set to premiere the USA at Fright Night Festival in Kentucky which is the largest genre festival in all mid America.

Stage Fright (R for profanity, sexual references and graphic violence) High body - count horror flick set at a snobby drama camp terrorized by a bloodthirsty slasher who hates musical theater.