• Besides the Weeping Angels, fans have even more to look forward to, as well as to be frightened of.

    FORBES: Doctor Who's Karen Gillan Explains Why the Weeping Angels Are So %^&#$ Scary

  • The Fed needs to be able to add to bank reserves without scaring the bejeezus out of people who have been frightened by the QE2 bogey man.

    FORBES: QE2 Was A Really Big Ocean Liner

  • While nearly all the youngsters at the screening I attended enjoyed this movie, two tiny tykes became very frightened by the bad toys and had to be taken out of the theater.

    CNN: 'Toy Story:' A high-tech treat

  • His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken to his core by cancer--someone who has learned what it's like to be vulnerable and frightened, someone who now regrets his oft-displayed lack of sympathy for the vulnerable and frightened in the poorest precincts of his city.

    CNN: Rudy's soulful exit

  • What kind of a signal is this proposal to Americans who are only saving at a rate of 2.5%, rather than 6.5%, who have seen defined pension plans phased out, and who are frightened about how they are going to be able to afford the last 20 years of their life?

    FORBES: Obama Goes Against the Grain of What America Represents

  • Even frightened toddlers who prefer the arms of their parents may still be persuaded to hug the au pair.

    ECONOMIST: Have markets got what they wanted at last?

  • Ms. LAURA REIFF (Co-Chair, Essential Worker Immigration Coalition): Well, we have had reports from our trade associations memberships coming back into our information databanks that some employees are frightened and not showing up to work because of the rumors that there might be raids.

    NPR: Rumors of Immigrant Round-Up Abound

  • But when patterns of conformity are imposed by the state, then one has a right to be frightened.

    NEWYORKER: The Clockwork Condition

  • Most of the scenes of negotiating and intimidation are teleconferenced to someone else often someone meant to be frightened by what he sees.

    NEWYORKER: Savages

  • As a result of his ordeal, Melendres was left "frightened to walk on the street or be seen in public in Maricopa County because he fears that the sheriff's officers will come and arrest him again because he is Latino and does not speak English, " the lawsuit states.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The trouble is that Venezuela's need for foreign investment is also real and foreign industrialists, portfolio investors and bankers may be frightened off if Mr Chavez does not move quickly to show sceptics that he really does support the concept of private property.

    ECONOMIST: Venezuela

  • Frightened by the car, he drove to the center of Damascus, to a square he knew to be home to government buildings and the president's palace.

    CNN: Cartoons that scare Syria's leader

  • It has taken a while for the management to recognise that England's approach to one-day cricket is more tentative and shackled than most of their opponents, and while it is always possible to over-attack, it would be preferable to see them fail while trying to lift their game than to watch the batsmen prodding about and apparently frightened of failure.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

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