Puns that would provoke a private wince bring apublic outcry of terrifying proportions.

"A brutal massacre of terrifying proportions," the FL-Sixteen freelancer had growled.

But now the Governor and the Legislature face fiscal problems of terrifying proportions.

The Hindus were much more interested in devising elaborate cosmic cycles of vast and terrifying proportions.

But religious fanaticism was a lethal bomb of quite terrifying proportions.

Then you'll be on a fire and see something new and unpredictable, a wake-up call of terrifying proportions.

The noise and the shaking had reached terrifying proportions.

His head qualified as a grotesque caricature of terrifying proportions.

Mr President, it has already been said that, after a war which engulfed the country in misery, Mozambique is now facing a natural disaster of terrifying proportions.

Once during the night he dreamed, his right hand touching and fondling himself, bringing himself to an erection of terrifying proportions.