Sentences with phrase «turned frightful»

It used to be that when the weather turned frightful, some school districts had to dismiss employees or go to a four - day week in order to heat their buildings.

When the weather outside turns frightful, some helpful winter products for us — antifreeze, windshield wiper fluids, and ice melting products — are not so friendly for pets.

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If we import into our thinking ideas about rewards and punishments, as these are commonly understood, we turn God into «the ruthless moralist» who, as Whitehead once remarked, is one of the false «gods» that men have worshipped to their own frightful hurt.

The second challenge was attracting enough wild yeast to ferment those sugars quickly, before marauding hordes of bacteria and fungi turned the brew into a frightful and possibly hazardous libation.

What begins as an experiment to help mankind become immortal turns into something more frightful for Igor Strausman (Daniel Radcliffe), the assistant to an increasingly obsessive scientist named Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy).

Parenting has been turned over to well - meaning bureaucrats, and the results come closer to Aldous Huxley's frightful prophecies than to Dewey's sanguine expectations.

Sprinkle in a frightful encounter where they claimed I didn't have an account with them... turns out, I use the first letter of my first name and I was giving them my full first name... last name was correct, email was correct, address was correct... I finally gave up THEN I realized what they had done.

TORONTO, Dec. 2, 2014 / CNW / - When the weather outside is frightful, Canadians find eReading delightful — so delightful, in fact, that Canadians turned nearly 300 million virtual pages on Kobo devices over the holidays last year, with 16 million on Christmas Day alone.

In a slight turn away from the traditional fantasy realm of big bad demons vs almost equally big and frightful gods Torchlight 2 instead does away with all that.

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

When the weather outside turns from frightful to enjoyable, everyone gets the urge to spend more time outdoors.