Hair-curling

But, first and foremost, "Retreat with Stilwell" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you.

Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man.

[T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity.

If the walls . . . could talk, they would reveal some hair-curling secrets.