Losses on loans would rise alarmingly if the economy were to contract sharply or official interest rates to rise.

ECONOMIST: British banks

It can be alarmingly easy to believe that one part of your portfolio will rise without a halt, never to revert to the mean.

FORBES: Robert Arnott: Leave Emotions Out of Investing

More alarmingly, if rivers dump more water into oceans, then rising sea levels (see article) will rise more rapidly still.

ECONOMIST: Climate change (I)