Sentence examples for afraid hoping from inspiring English sources
They are more often ashamed and afraid, hoping a straight life would someday trump their attractions and safely resolve their struggle.
"I'm afraid hope is an indulgence I don't have time for," one of the human commanders says.
It makes you afraid to hope".
"People have been afraid to hope again, to believe again," he said.
Suddenly afraid, he hoped the cat would go towards his brother.
But over dinner at a trendy St . Louisrestaurant, he picked at his chicken and said he was afraid to hope.
They listened to her remonstrations in silence, impressed by her conviction but afraid to hope too hard lest they be denied.
Mr. Rothenberg, who provided a memorably boyish Stanley Kowalski in the recent Kennedy Center revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire," affectingly conveys the self-sabotaging impulses of someone afraid to hope.
We won't bow to people who want to make us afraid, who hope to disrupt our lives for good, who wish we didn't step out into the dimming evening light ready to sing along to dizzying pop from that place in our chests where it doesn't matter whether we sound good or not.
They may even be afraid to hope for better days, particularly in a climate that has traded rational dreams for ever-deepening political divides -- a climate in which war, torture, and death was marketed as a rational response, and those who sought answers and accountability were derided as "bleeding hearts".
She hesitated for a moment, admitting that she is afraid to hope that her wishes might come true.
