frightening

"Talking is frightening for a lot of autistic people," he said.

“It should be frightening to everybody, because where we go in our lives is not the government’s business.”

“The situation is frightening,” said Farhat, a Syrian hotel owner in the occupied Golan Heights.

Though it remains to be seen what a second Trump administration will mean for this country in terms of economics and international relations, the cultural effects have already begun: The day before I saw “Heretic,” my teenage daughter and her friends were bullied by male schoolmates who chanted “Your body, my choice — Trump 2024,” something that is occurring across the country with frightening regularity.

Consider all of that a frightening vision of our now all-too-imminent future: a president freed from the restraints of the Constitution, unchecked by Congress or the courts — or by his Cabinet advisers.