I believe that searching for phonetically sound words with which to teach a child to read certainly makes for this frightful boredom in reading.
It immediately suggests the most frightful possibilities, perhaps that one is to have an atomic power station built among one's crops.
Sadly, they have always had an unfortunate faculty of saddling themselves with the most frightful régimes.
The other way is to make the consequences of war so frightful that no potential adversary could contemplate starting one.
We suffer terrible traffic jams, with people in their cars breathing in poisonous gases; and we suffer frightful noise.
We have heard a great deal about the frightful dangers of monopoly, about this hydra-headed monster, this tyrant.
Under his direction we have succeeded in having, if not exactly amicable debates, at least debates without the frightful animosity that is sometimes manifested elsewhere.
On the top of this comes this frightful depression, when debts are a terrific burden.
