frightfulness

The official German policy against civilians was described as Schrecklichkeit — frightfulness.

But “Home” is a tonic for the mind, a lovely, lyrical distraction from the frightfulness of the news that had me looking at my surroundings more tenderly when I returned home.

There had been instances of what was then called “frightfulness,” a more polite name for terrorism, preceding the Lusitania attack.

By coincidence, many of the photographs are of the District during the 1980s, an era in local history whose frightfulness has been much overstated.

Carried away by their frantic desire to make a display of frightfulness upon an unprotected English watering-place they had totally ignored the seemingly innocuous cable-grappling craft.