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Yet I was also transfixed: Chris Nash’s direction is so persuasively bold — brazen, really — and bloodcurdlingly coolheaded that his unusual shocker is impossible to dismiss.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

Put simply, when someone does something bloodcurdlingly awful they are pretty much by definition not bad but mad.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2012

Even with the downward trend, crime rates remain bloodcurdlingly high, especially when compared to the relatively peaceable kingdom of, say, 1965.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the drop of a skillet, Isabel quotes romantic tag lines from Sir Walter Scott, interspersed with bloodcurdlingly cute dialogue of her own.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Radar #V, he covers the view with a layer of colored Plexiglas partly because it creates a bloodcurdlingly realistic mood of objects adrift on an uncharted sea.

From Time Magazine Archive