Sentences with phrase «sometimes frightened»

Cats, for example, are sometimes frightened by a loud click.

It is a different mindset, that I am in the process of adopting, as I think if I really would be honest with myself, I can be sometimes frightened by those symptoms.

She LOVES small dogs but is sometimes frightened by bigger dogs.

Rose Byrne plays Rebecca Skloot as a plucky, often bemused, frustrated, sometimes frightened, but always determined young white woman venturing into unknown and (for her) fearful territory.

Lively humor and fun visual gags belie the heart and care that clearly went into the story: Nimona is flawed and sometimes frightened, a truly human hero with a great story to tell.

Since kids are sometimes frightened by firefighters and may even hide from them (as some do to any individual in uniform), adults can plan a special trip to take them to a fire station and introduce them to uniformed firefighters.

It was a long job of work and it engaged our lives so completely that sometimes it frightened us.

We are sometimes frightened of going to confession or even admitting our guilt because in our minds the sentence we would pass is severe.

It's a matter of having the courage and open - mindedness to accept truly extraordinary and sometimes frightening things.

It is this mysterious and sometimes frightening source that may be called the supernatural.

Personally, even making huge allowances for Wenger's legendary stubborness and sometimes frightening loyalty to players I can not see how any of this trio (and Theo for that matter) can muscle in and grab a starting slot by right any time soon.

Parenting a newborn is exhilarating, sometimes frightening and always exhausting.

I used to get his emails when he was running for City Council and while normally I would delete such unsolicited political email blasts, his colorful and sometimes frightening posts often caught my attention.

«Use of traditional calipers is time - consuming, intrusive, and sometimes frightening to young children.

If they then suddenly find themselves unexpectedly single when over forty, dating sometimes frightens them.

The movie does a lot of things right — bringing McClane into a post-9 / 11 world, setting up a plot that is far - fetched yet plausible and sometimes frightening.

Strange and sometimes frightening alien characters are depicted.

Hallam Foe (2007), starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as a Holden Caulfield - like sociopath, was an exhilarating coming - of - age movie with an adult, sometimes frightening tone; it opened here to scant press under the unhelpful new title Mister Foe.

Directed by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus), his first effort since 1999's Man on the Moon, Goya's Ghosts may not rank among his finest works, but it does have its share of strong moments, enough to recommend the film as a thoughtful and sometimes frightening commentary on the nature of religious persecution, and the lives destroyed in the wake of their power.

A sometimes funny, sometimes frightening work of intense paranoid drama with chilling elements of sci - fi and an incredible lead performance from FLAKED's George Basil.

The Pittsburgh school board has been steadfast in its commitment to providing a safe and supportive school environment for immigrant and transgender students — and protecting them from the divisive and sometimes frightening public debate surrounding these children.

Air bags are just one of several new safety devices that have appeared on cars in recent years, devices that can sometimes frighten and baffle drivers.

Air bags are just one of several new safety features that have appeared on cars in recent years, and the new equipment can sometimes frighten and baffle drivers.

I did not always like what they did but I still liked them The supporting characters lent such a wonderful and sometimes frightening background.

From surgery to a battery of Botox injections to a dousing of Lithuanian holy water, from a mountain of pharmaceutical products to aromatherapy and even a vibrating hat, All in My Head chronicles the sometimes frightening, usually absurd, and always ineffective remedies she — and so many like her — was willing to try to relieve her pain.

Mouse's First Halloween by Lauren Thompson is a gentle and beautifully illustrated portrait of the happier side of the holiday's sometimes frightening aspects Illustrator Buket Erdogan's use of nighttime shades of indigo, deep reds, and autumnal umber on textured canvas are masterful, fit to be hung on your child's bedroom walls.

In Chew On This, they share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken «nugget» really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.

Fourteen - year - old Jamie (aka Punkzilla)-- AWOL from military school — embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find his older brother, a dying gay playwright, and share with him his journal of his sometimes frightening, sometimes heartwarming adventures along the way.

Through the sometimes frightening wonders of Google Analytics, I know that someone navigated his or her way to this site a few days ago by searching:

Less restraint is often better than holding your pet down as this sometimes frightens them.

But hidden away in the shadows lies the obscure, sometimes frightening and often darker society of gaming.

The commonality was poor energy performance, but also most of these buildings had poor ventilation, moisture problems, ancient and terrible (sometimes frightening) mechanical systems, and a whole list of other problems.

As we feasted on organic chocolate chip cookies, lemon loaf and local strawberries, we discussed the serious, sometimes frightening topic of developing a just food system...»

Colossal and io9 both alerted me to these wonderful — and sometimes frightening — MRI images, but do check out Inside Insides for the full collection of MRI stills and animated gifs of fruits, flowers, vegetables and plants.

In an age dominated by short attention spans, Boston Dynamics has managed to capture our imaginations time and again through sometimes frightening, sometimes adorable and always fascinating robots.

These devices can already recognize and understand voices and speech, but they can't really differentiate one voice from the next, which makes for a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening situation.

Determined to find the silver lining — after all, there's always a silver lining — she discovered that there's humor in what can be an unstable and sometimes frightening situation.

Getting up a small flight of steps, especially with no banister, is challenging, sometimes frightening, and, in winter, downright dangerous.

Not exact matches

I began to notice areas I felt some pressure to conform: sometimes I feel an unspoken pressure from the institution and individuals within it to adhere to a preset systemization of belief and morality; sometimes I allow a comment left on my blog or criticism from other bloggers to intimidate me into conformity; sometimes I feel afraid to let what I really believe to leak out of my mouth; sometimes I allow criticism of the way I oversee our community, or criticism of our community itself, to frighten me into silence, passivity and paralysis.

A ten - year - old girl named Olga, who lived in the hotel with her father and sister, spoke of her frightened and broken spirit: «Sometimes when I wake up and Daddy is in a separate bed, and I see I'm in a shelter, and all of the people in the same room... there's no privacy.»

Little did she know that published authors are just as insecure and jealous and frightened as unpublished authors, sometimes even more so.

Instead of taking into consideration that disruption of the norm is sometimes a good and necessary part of living an abundant, dynamic life, they become frightened of the unknown and unfamiliar.

And yes, there is Jesus, and I am not minimizing that in the least — it's just that sometimes we need «God with skin on» to quote a frightened little girl I once read about.

In the parish church, as in the University lecture halls and the Friary study rooms, the ascetic face, the evident sincerity, the sometimes almost frightening intensity of his quiet though easily audible voice, his glinting eyes, and his ability to speak to the condition of those he was addressing, won people to him.

When we do that, we sometimes receive an overwhelming impression of a person who almost frightens us.

His lightning pace did frightened defenders but sometimes he can't performed against bigger clubs!

About the Shakespeare flags flapping in the wind along East Main Street, where sometimes you would encounter a deer on a city street and be frightened by how close it would let you get to it.

sometimes it is good to have a wake - up call early in the season — a loss to frighten the players into gear

Sometimes these children can learn if they use a potty chair which is located away from the frightening toilet.

«When you were little, I was having a hard time... I yelled a lot... I didn't know what else to do... That frightened you... So you got very very mad sometimes... Nowadays I work really hard to be kind, and not to yell... You don't get so frightened... And you are learning better ways to show me when you are scared or mad... We work together to solve problems in our family... Everyone gets upset sometimes... We try to listen to each other and be kind... Then we always repair things between us... There is always more love.»