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• They're strong, punchy tales which his glittering 'technosleaze' trademark: some are obvious precursors of the novels, and the fine title piece's hair-raising cyberspace jaunt is echoed all too closely in Neuromancer.
• Not only was Wadleigh fired on by a Japanese shore battery, but the doughty destroyer was also straddled by a stick of bombs from a Japanese plane, mistaken for a low-flying aircraft by American forces, and again taken under fire from shore—all within a hair-raising space of 15 minutes! During the latter days of the campaign Wadleigh shot enemy snipers out of caves, trees, and cliffs; picked up an occasional Japanese prisoner, and rescued downed American aircrews shot down near her position.
• The album was full of violent nihilism, hair-raising tales of betrayal and revenge, and his emulations of dogs barking and whining; the beats were rugged and skeletal.
• The Gothic influence on the sensation novel is described by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas thus:

  secrecy and the body go hand in hand, and the more sensation novels highlight the elusiveness or artificiality of human identity, the more hair-raising Gothic loci appear as the ultimate place where fragment of truth can be recollected and reunited and story rewritten.

• The early stories were pure pulp "supersagas", as dubbed by Philip José Farmer, with rampaging dinosaurs and lost races, secret societies led by dastardly villains, fantastic gadgets and weapons, autogyros and zeppelins, death-dealing traps and hair-raising escapes, and plots to rule the earth.
• The speed of the narrative is impeccably controlled - long slogs over country, moments of blind panic, passages of demoralizing inactivity, hair-raising evasions, all building up to a central set-piece in a burning field.
• Far from being deskbound professional influencers, FELO operatives performed some of the most hair-raising intelligence operations of the war.
• The road to Laudat used to be a hair-raising ride up the mountains, around blind hairpin turns with sharp drop-offs into the jungle canopy; however, the road has been improved and may be completed by the time of this writing.
• The music director Datta Naik and the lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi were praised for their involvement, especially for "Aurat Ne Janam Diya Mardon Ko", described as "crowning glory" and "hair-raising" song of the film.
• This role becomes a double-edged sword for our young heroine, who is sucked into a maelstrom of vicious gang wars, hair-raising assassination attempts and ruthless power struggles and betrayals.
• Among a thousand contradictions, he'll confront all sorts of dangers, in the best tradition of hardboiled thrillers, and aided by his alter ego called Socio (the rational side of Sandrone, in a split-personality condition), our hero will happily finalise and conclude many chilling and hair-raising situations.
• Sqdn Ldr Dave Carden takes the reader on a typically "hair-raising mission", while another section is devoted to a pilot's experiences when his aircraft caught fire and crashed into the sea off Flamborough Head in 1981.
• From her landing at the airport in Lapalisthan, the protagonist, Becky Sidebottom, gets into hair-raising situation after situation because of the impish but gazelle-like presence of Desi Khunbarrah, a scion of the old aristocracy, who opens Becky's eyes to the 'colonisation' of development aid and the hypocrisy of many of its protagonists.
• The Guardians film critic Peter Bradshaw observed Richardson's sympathetic treatment and described the memoir as "an extrovert, tender, charming and unselfconscious book, with some extraordinary, hell-raising and hair-raising anecdotes", and The Evening Standard noted that "The closing chapter is deeply wrenching".
• This results in a hair-raising stunt chase where the characters take turn dangling from precipices and swaying on teeter-totters.
• Armed with the expertise of local writers and directors who have had experience working on the horror-action genre, Regal Shocker employs a roller coaster of scare tactics to ignite fear and pounce on the viewers' emotions with hair-raising, spine-tingling, heart-pounding stories that Filipinos love to watch.
• Non-too-bright Secret Agent Freddy Fairweather and Women's Libber Marigold Muffett get involved in hair-raising adventures as the drama unfolds, and the planet heads for nuclear war.
• From this hope will come the obtaining of a driving license, the visit to the Auto Show, the hesitations over the choice of model, the deceptions of a hair-raising salesman, and the comical adventures of the hunt in Sologne.
• High-powered action mixes with high-spirited comedy (Brockman's quicksilver tongue often gets him into trouble with killers, cuties and other police officers) as the two men follow a deadly trail of murders through a contemporary Los Angeles of transvestites and midget wrestlers, capped by some hair-raising car chases.
• This opinion has been described by others as "hair-raising psychologising, even pathologising ahistoricity".

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