Sentences with phrase «sometimes frightful»

Turning this archaic paradigm upside - down, the contemporary artists highlighted in Organic Matters actively investigate the natural world — to fanciful and sometimes frightful effect.

His railroad was an ambiguous maze: sometimes a delightful ride as in Cora's journey from Tennessee to Indiana, a trip comprised of luxurious seating, linen tables and a shining red engine; sometimes frightful and leading to a dead end as in the train brought her to North Carolina where there was no connection; and sometimes it was a frightening and crude means of transportation as in her escape from Ridgeway on the pump car that took her away from Indiana into an uncertain future.

359 pages, $ 26 When journalists take on intellectual history, the results are sometimes frightful and sometimes delightful.

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The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

It was a very just thought to which the older dogmatic frequently recurred, whereas a later dogmatic so often censored it for lack of understanding and a proper sense of its meaning — it was a very just thought, although sometimes a wrong application was made of it: the thought that what makes sin so frightful is that it is before God.

For there God's goodness is pictured in such terms of mercy and compassion that one sometimes despairs of reconciling such grace with the world's hideous evils and mankind's frightful sufferings.

Oh was it ever frightful sometimes!