blood-curdling

Germany, for example, has 9 countries on its borders and a blood-curdling history, and it’s a very pleasant place now.

I imagine that an effective alarm would be a recording of a blood-curdling scream and loud, random, dissonant chords.

Hours of blood-curdling screaming in the middle of the night, waking up people who are trying to get sleep before going to work.

Apparently, someone reported hearing blood-curdling screams coming from my apartment.

Visit any Mastodon server and you can see this and other blood-curdling statements posted every day, often by people under their real name, and to the thunderous cheering of the crowds.

When a twenty year old Gameboy advance game can make someone let out a blood-curdling scream, how are you supposed to convince them that now they need strap something to their head and hands?

It demanded from humankind a blood-curdling tribute: to satisfy its enormous appetite, ten thousand men and women had to be delivered every evening at the onset of dark to the foot of the mountain where the dragon-tyrant lived.

A friend of mine started taking Effexor, but then we found accounts of how it's impossible to stop taking Effexor: blood-curdling stories about pharmacists who'd dissassemble the pills and reassemble them to titrate the dose down, and who'd still be unable to get the dose to zero.

A less judgmental and, frankly, less jerkish way of putting it would be "stress relief." Because we are not a bunch of meat-puppet robots, able to turn off emotions with a blood-curdling scream of the lambda effing calculus.

The story is meant to be blood-curdling and the colourful language — including liberal use of “depredation,” “loot,” “rapaciousness,” “vicious,” “brutality,” “plunder” and “extraction” — produces that effect.