Sentence examples for afraid themselves from inspiring English sources

Instead, they try to ignore him, or play the same games they usually do with candidates -- who, truth be told, are so afraid themselves of offending the press that they play right along.

You see, I'm afraid that the neoconservatives are so desperate to keep a hold of power, of their life line to the purse strings of America and their ability to do as they will and never be held accountable, so afraid themselves of losing this power that they have resorted not only to class warfare, but to actually creating an environment dangerous to the health of a political candidate.

"This World of Creepers; Afraid of Themselves and of Others, Afraid of the Almighty, of Life and of Death," Life, November 14, 1907.

Panic swells only when people, rationally or not, are afraid for themselves.

They are afraid of themselves – their own guilt, their own conscience".

Patricia Spears Jones said: "I think the cops, at this point, are afraid of themselves.

"They fight because they're afraid of themselves," Henry says, explaining his disdain for the ordinary soldier.

People who forthrightly admit to being afraid for themselves and their loved ones should consider the psychological defense afforded by common sense.

Not even because they are afraid for themselves but because they are afraid for their relatives who stayed in Chechnya even though these same relatives might kill them for being gay.

Maryam's growing authority as a character involves a negation of Abbas's narrative fluency ("She says our children are here, in a strange place, and all we have given them are bewildering stories about who we are. She thinks it makes them unsure and afraid about themselves").

Sharhazad, 13, wants to be an aerospace engineer but she and her younger sister are afraid for themselves and their mother.