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terrifying



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Can you be so radical and revolutionary that you force the kind of changes needed to reverse a failing national path without terrifying people that you are actually mad, bad and dangerous?

From The Wall Street Journal

"She's terrifying - but lovely as well," Heritage says.

From BBC

“It was terrifying,” he told reporters, visibly shaken.

From Salon

It’s a terrifying prospect, they said, because the disease transmitted by infected water killed a few dozen people — most of them children — last year.

From Los Angeles Times

From a distance, to those in the finish-line bleachers watching below, it looks terrifying.

From Los Angeles Times