An old desert frightening road connecting Phoenix to the Hassayampa River near present-day Wickenburg was the only major transportation route in the area until 1887, when a new road was laid out.

In 2006, researchers observed hyperactivity in the amygdala when patients were shown threatening faces or confronted with frightening situations.

In general, neuroimaging studies demonstrate that individuals with Williams syndrome have diminished amygdala reactivity in response to socially frightening stimuli ( such as disapproving faces ), but demonstrate hyperreactivity in the amygdala when presented with nonsocial fear stimuli ( such as frightening animals ).

It was the young ( many of them teenagers ) student-activists at Highlander, however, who gave the song the words and rhythms we know it by today, when they sang it to keep their spirits up during the frightening police raids on Highlander and their subsequent stays in jail in 1959-60.

However, when an artist is unconscious of the juxtaposition ( e. g., when a film maker means for a man in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet to be frightening ), the result is bathos.

Stewart's 2001 season got off to a frightening start at the Daytona 500, when on lap 173 a crash on the back straightaway eliminated eighteen drivers in spectacular fashion, and led to the race being red-flagged for cleanup.

The indemnity of one million pounds sterling would have been considered a colossal sum even in Europe of that time, and it became frightening when translated to Burmese kyat equivalent of 10 million.

Emerson misunderstood Ginastera's meaning: Ginastera spoke almost no English and meant that their interpretation was frightening, which had been his intent when he wrote it ; Emerson, being British, took it to mean " awful ".

Nora Manning ( Carolyn Craig ) becomes convinced that he's trying to kill her when she keeps seeing frightening apparitions, including the ghost of Annabelle, who had apparently hanged herself some time during the night.

In a panic, Sam runs to his room and calls Lucy, who is on a date with Max, but the phone call is interupted when Michael suddenly develops the ability to fly, and appears outside Sam's window, frightening him.

Recalling the frightening qualities of the Quatermass serials in 1981, journalist Geoffrey Wansell wrote that " when the third series, Quatermass and the Pit was shown, three of my school friends insisted on leaving the room whenever it started.

He later recalled the occasion on which he and the young Arthur Sullivan succumbed to laughter when Goss absent-mindedly walked across the pedals of the organ during a service " before he realised that he was the cause of the alarming thunderings which were frightening the congregation and putting a temporary pause in the sermon.

" Hush " was highly praised when it aired, not only for its riskiness in presenting viewers with extended silence, but for the frightening qualities of The Gentlemen.

In 1965, she had clashed with Nigel Kneale on the BBC arts programme Late Night Line-Up when he attacked her for making Doctor Who too frightening for children.

However, when a small party ( including Kelderek, the Tuginda, and Melathys ) find the bear, it is of such a frightening size and ferocity that she loses confidence and runs off, effectively abdicating her position as priestess.

He was such a frightening and nightmarish character when first introduced that in several episodes after his introduction, parents of younger viewers actually complained that he was " too evil " for the show.

For instance, during a frightening situation, such as when seeing a coyote walk like a man, a leaf of momoy was sucked to help keep the soul in the body.

Jack plans to use the heart that Finklestein created to control the seemingly docile Heartless to make a festival called " Heartless Halloween " so that Halloween can be frightening, but the idea fails when not only the first experiment cause the Heartless to go berserk, but Oogie Boogie steals the finished heart, and plans to use it to take over Halloween Town.

After losing an eye when shot in a tavern brawl, a loss that reputedly left him with a frightening appearance, Ouseley left his wild ways behind him.

Wise and powerful, frightening when provoked, she can be set in her ways.

The murders continue, and they move closer in to the museum resulting in a horrific murder in the museum's basement archives, and a frightening chase after Kelly and every time when Pendergast finds a clue he feels as someone as already been on same track they investigate.

The idea is that the anticipation of children leaving home is more frightening than when they actually do leave and many parents can utilize their new found free time to engage in activities they could not when their lives revolved around nurturing their children ( Lyon, 2008 ).

Guy is an idle, rich dreamer whose relationship with his " frightening wife " is sexless after the birth of their uncontrollable son, Marmaduke, who seems to have a violent Oedipal complex.

However, Presley's former wife Priscilla wrote that Presley didn't like the name because of a frightening Mafia connotation which the general public was then unaware of, and that members of organized crime had attempted to take over Presley's career, something reported as having happened earlier to Frank Sinatra.

The author employs a lively, witty second-person voice to tell the story of this never-named young man thrust suddenly into grief, guilt ( his wife has died of anaphylactic shock after eating a cashew that was lurking in takeout food he brought home ) and new and frightening responsibilities.

The science fiction novel tells the story of a frightening virtual network created by a group of rich men known as The Grail Brotherhood.

One tells that the name of the region is derived from straşnic, a Romanian adjective that can mean " terrible ", " frightening ", and the story goes that in former times this region was covered by a fearsome forest.

Lumpy madly tells his friend that he had broke his promise ; as Roo had said before that his friends wouldn't be frightening.

He tells her that his excavations around Cleopatra ’ s palaces have been interrupted by strange creatures frightening the workers away.

The use of even more ordinary objects in Terror of the Autons — including the unmasking of a police officer as an Auton — caused public controversy about whether the programme was too frightening for children.

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

Their presence is not as frightening as the discontent which creates their opportunity.

The significance of the railways to the Civil War of the Finns is well symbolized by the most modern and frightening weapon used in the turmoil: armoured train, carrying light cannons and heavy machine guns.

However, Caligula is shown in a later episode to confess to his uncle Claudius that he killed his father in revenge for trying to discipline him, by working on his father's superstitions ( planting various ' curses ' around his father's residence ) and eventually frightening him to death-therefore, Piso and Plancina were technically innocent ( Zeus, by Jove!

It is this gloomy and frightening scenery, which sets the scene for what the audience should expect.

The state of Georgia is under martial law and life there has taken on a new and more frightening tone.

Although " severely elevated mood " sounds somewhat desirable and enjoyable, the experience of mania is ultimately often quite unpleasant and sometimes disturbing, if not frightening, for the person involved and for those close to them, and it may lead to impulsive behavior that may later be regretted.

He learns that his idyllic town is a constructed reality designed to protect him from the frightening fact that he lives on a then-future Earth ( circa 1998 ) that is at war with its colonists on the Moon who are fighting for a permanent Lunar habitation that is politically independent of Earth as well.

Horror fiction is the literature of the unnatural and supernatural, with the aim of unsettling or frightening the reader, sometimes with graphic violence.

The ailments may be either purely physical afflictions — such as disease, which may be cured by gifting, flattering, threatening, or wrestling the disease-spirit ( sometimes trying all these, sequentially ), and which may be completed by displaying a supposedly extracted token of the disease-spirit ( displaying this, even if " fraudulent ", is supposed to impress the disease-spirit that it has been, or is in the process of being, defeated, so that it will retreat and stay out of the patient's body ) --, or else mental ( including psychosomatic ) afflictions — such as persistent terror ( on account of a frightening experience ), which may be likewise cured by similar methods.

In modern fictional representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress ; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.

Although the exposure might be minimal, many people find radiation exposure especially frightening because it is something they cannot see or feel, and it therefore becomes an unknown source of danger.

Still, the most frightening scenes are extremely compelling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion.

The slightest movement of the rib cage causes a sharp increase of pain, which makes it very difficult to breathe, and an attack is therefore quite a frightening experience, although it generally passes off before any actual harm occurs.

He is also depicted as somewhat benevolent and opposes the frightening Nyarlathotep.

It is a frightening beast, but also skittish and foolish.

An interesting being mentioned in some of the history writings is Kashehotapalo, a combination of man and deer who delighted in frightening hunters.

You know you will wet the bed because it is too frightening to go to the lavatory.

She is nurturing and supportive of Peter although, throughout most of Spider-Man's history, she has not known of his secret life and considers Spider-Man frightening.

The amount of money in our league is frightening and all we do is waste it on rubbish ideas ... We kid ourselves thinking we have a chance if we keep the tempo up.