Sentence examples for afraid precisely from inspiring English sources

The actual victims are taken at random, a representative sample of the targeted group; we feel afraid precisely because we imagine that it could have been our bodies instead of theirs.

However, I'm afraid that's precisely the situation described by Borges's fragment: the tattered remains of the map are themselves the rendition of desert they litter.

People are afraid that satire, precisely because it causes us to laugh, causes humiliation, which in turn may provoke anger or even violence.

The man has stopped being afraid — and this is precisely the beginning of the revolution".

While President Obama would like to withdraw from Afghanistan, Indian leaders remain afraid he will do precisely that.

Schott's intentionally flat hierarchy of entries, where all have equal weight, is part of his stated intention to make "boring things interesting" but I'm afraid he has worked precisely the opposite process with this book.

This is a trick heading, I'm afraid, because no one has figured precisely how this works, physiologically.

But like many overweight women, she may have been being restrained in public precisely because she was afraid of people judging her.

But I am afraid to say that it is precisely his personal experience of that struggle that makes his hypocrisy on the practicalities of it for those infinitely less well-off than himself so completely, almost mesmerisingly, disgusting.

We can't do it precisely because we're too afraid to ruffle some feathers.

Often we conform for precisely this reason: We're afraid of being laughed at.