(1) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(2) The fluorescent brightening agent, applied as a counterstain, aided in the location of the specimen.
(3) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(4) The taxidermist's eyes brightened, and he led me to a human skeleton half hidden in the back of the room.
(5) The nucleus, a huge lump of rock and ice, was several miles wide on its approach to the sun, and brightened as the sun heated it to create an atmosphere, or coma, of ice and dust which was blown away from the sun to form a tail.
(6) To assess their potential use as fluorescent stains for flow cytometry, the cell staining specificity of 55 compounds, originally synthesized for use as textile dyes and fluorescent brighteners, was explored and their excitation and emission wavebands determined.
(7) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(8) These results suggest specific properties associated with the brightening and dimming systems.
(9) With respect to vital staining the optical brightener Blankophor RKH exhibited most favorable properties.
(10) We have so many beautiful things …” She brightens up.
(11) We attribute the brightness shift to the saturation of the transient response: a limitation on the maximum transient when responding to rapid brightening or dimming.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New Brighton, Wallasey: the New Brighteners, a self help group formed in the Wirral, have a formed a volunteer group to keep the shore and beaches clean of plastic litter.
(13) Add the chopped stems to the onions and continue cooking till they have both softened and brightened.
(14) The short-term prospects have undoubtedly brightened.
(15) A reduction in the accommodative lag during book retinoscopy would result in brightening of the reflex along with a shift in the "against" direction.
(16) Hyper-pigmentation as a manifestation of contact sensitivity to optical brighteners has previously been reported.
(17) This polarity-sensitive adaptation fits with Jung's hypothesis that separate channels signal 'brightening' and 'darkening' in the human visual system.
(18) Updated at 11.22am BST 10.45am BST Italy brightens the mood Further reaction on the Italian bond sale from Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Strategy.
(19) News that Italy had surprisingly fallen back into recession in the second quarter coupled with evidence that the faltering recovery in the eurozone was having a dampening impact on German industry contributed to a downbeat mood brightened only when shares on Wall Street rose in early trading.
(20) Instawindow … The cheap and cheerful way to brighten up your view.
Frightening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frighten
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(5) There is no support in the system and it’s a very frightening and distressing situation to be in.
(6) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(7) You say that she taught you not to feel frightened.
(8) The facts speak for themselves but it was Mayweather’s refusal to address the allegations that was particularly frightening.
(9) Despite the warnings, new protesters of all ages continued to arrive in the camp, insisting they would not be frightened away.
(10) "I heard five explosions during the protest this evening and I was frightened - I just wanted to get out of there.
(11) I briefly consider logging into a relative’s AOL account and entering the keywords “the sadness of constantly frightened old white people”, but that seems too general.
(12) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
(13) Ukraine frightened people here,” says one diplomatic source in Minsk.
(14) This is the most frightening picture you will ever see.
(15) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(16) Narcolepsy, with its specific symptomatology is an intriguing but often frightening disease.
(17) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
(18) Of those who did not read the notes, only four (17%) were frightened by what they might read, while others stated that they did not have their glasses, could not read, did not think it was their place, thought the notes would not be interesting, or did not understand the policy.
(19) Sonia Zambakides, head of Save the Children's Somalia emergency response, added: "While there has been an improvement in these areas thanks to the international aid effort, children are still dying at a frightening rate across Somalia.
(20) The reality of the plan you went along with and helped execute was that your children were to be frightened out of sleep in the middle of the night and rescued by their father from a fire that should never have been started.