Exposure to terrifying events can overwhelm and break down the body's natural system of self-defense.

Of course, even before the lawyers got involved, birthday parties were terrifying events.

At first he thought it was a meteor strike, a rare but terrifying event.

She in no way blamed her dear little house for the terrifying events of the past few weeks.

"Like the reformations of the past, this will be a terrifying event," he writes.

One was a Washington figure known across the country from rough-and-tumble talk shows, who called her husband as the terrifying events unfolded in the sky.

They perceived how terrifying the event was to the uninitiated.

A series of terrifying events besets a best-selling novelist four years after his wife's death.

She is at hand when a series of terrifying supernatural events threaten to destroy him.

She wanted above all else to sleep and blot out the terrifying events of the day.