A frightened man, in his view, is a cowed man, and a cowed man is a frightening man.
As Greenberg, he's really blue — a frightened man who won't relinquish his pride.
Beneath the flamboyance is a frightened man on the verge of panic.
When he said that "a woman's place is in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order," you did not see a frightened man defending his threatened prerogatives.
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's unforgettable video projection, "Horror Chase," (2002) shows a frightened man running for his life in an ever-changing, endless loop through what looks to be a television or movie set of a home.
After the move to Connecticut, he retreated from collegial enterprise — "a frightened man drawing back," in Williams's view — and conducted his art as a sideline to his humdrum life.
On a dark rooftop, as they pass a joint, Paul looks into John's tearful face and tells him: "I see a frightened man who doesn't realize how beautiful he is".
Several images flashed in his mind's eye: his mother, bent over a sewing machine; a scene from a film in which a monster rose from a tunnel and dangled a frightened man in his claws; Spruce Hill Park after a thunderstorm, dappled rain on light-green leaves.
When I watched it recently I found my sympathies lay more with George; the man is a monster, but he is a fearful, guilt-ridden monster; a frightened man unwilling to live with the consequences of the decisions he has made, specifically the decision to marry a white woman and have children.
But people don't "buy" what they see in a movie quite so simply; Louis B. Mayer did not turn us into a nation of Andy Hardys, and if, in a film, we see a frightened man wantonly take the life of another, it does not encourage us to do the same, any more than seeing an ivory hunter shoot an elephant makes us want to shoot one.
