frightfulness

It is time to put an end to this frightfulness.

They believe in frightfulness every time, and it might mean death to the writer.

It was during the War; part of the general frightfulness."

But there is no call for all this frightfulness.

She couldn't know the frightfulness of the idea because she had nothing by which to measure it.

He was a traveling display of frightfulness, a menace to moving traffic.

As for the thing I faced and must fight, words alone cannot convey its frightfulness or ferocity.

In ascending order of frightfulness, here are four possibilities.

The frightfulness of what lay ahead was suddenly coming home to the men, but Old Chough had not finished yet.

We needed this extreme accuracy to achieve maximum frightfulness with minimum-to-zero killing.

Wilson had seen the frightfulness of war.

The frightfulness of reality had exceeded anticipation.

This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes.

It's a demonstration of firepower and frightfulness.

Himmler personified the organization he led, and that organization invested him with a frightfulness of a different sort.

In the Imperial proclamation the fact that certain "frightful" things have been done is admitted; and justified on the ground of their frightfulness.

Did some wicked old bugger have you when you were a kid and set you on the path to frightfulness?

And how would I avoid death by gas chamber or mob frightfulness if I were ever once caught using it?"

A thing of frightfulness.

As an example of frightfulness in war it was meant to leave a lasting impression, not least upon the men who came to replace their dead colleagues.

When you can't change or leave a bleak, mean world, what better way is there of surviving it than laughing at the sheer frightfulness of things?

Completely without clothing, their indescribably hideous bodies were revealed to me in all their obscene frightfulness.

Even so, as the film progresses, the horsing around gives way to the resiliently predatory frightfulness of Nosferatu's appearance.

Rumours circulated, and each lap doubled in improbability, stupidity and frightfulness, especially about the scan.

Although it wasn't conclusive, hardly more than an exhibition of frightfulness, it lead indirectly to the end of the war."