Skeet's grin emphasized the skull beneath the skin, which was frighteningly close to the surface in his gaunt countenance.

Alendi's story was frighteningly close to Vin's own.

He survived, despite some frighteningly close calls, because his father disguised the family's Jewishness with forged documents and fake identities.

No peashooters here: these kids battle with bicycle chains and fireworks in frighteningly close quarters.

Her movies trade on the frighteningly close relationship between intimacy and violence, and her films illustrate how quickly one can cross the line into the other.

From the frighteningly close position of 60 feet 6 inches away, David Weathers was defenseless after Johnny Damon scorched a line drive toward him in the second inning.

The dusty desert of stone stretched away to the frighteningly close horizon no matter which way he looked.

"The secret detention of more than 800 people over the past few weeks is frighteningly close to the practice of 'disappearing' people in Latin America," she said in a statement.

Meanwhile the creature was looming frighteningly close and large.

He does not think that many Westchester children, after stumbling through school, will want to make a living through humor writing because, he said, it is frighteningly close to manual labor.