Courter's words are driven by his experiences in a Cold War Congress, "When I would walk out of classified briefings," he recalls, "I would walk outside and be almost shaking with fear about what a totalitarian country can do".
Layla told them how eventually she had made her way home, running and bawling, almost feral with fear.
It was difficult for all acts, but we have a lot of technology, and we didn't have in-ear monitoring, so I was almost rigid with fear.
The first thing that struck me about the film, which is playing in select theaters around the country now, was the way it captured the almost unimaginable horror that war imposes on noncombatants: the looks of terror on the faces of people fleeing gunfire in the streets; children crouching and flinching, almost paralyzed with fear by the sound of nearby explosions; homes engulfed in flames.
Never having spent any time in the developing world, I was almost paralyzed with fear.
"We take ladies who are almost quaking with fear," she said.
Some participants seemed almost wracked with fear that health professionals might discover their low literacy, and regularly limited their conversations with health services as a result.
Swinton has some great scenes as the career lawyer who is almost literally poisoned with fear: pale, dyspeptic.
There are no guns to speak of: Jimmy's buddies cruise around firing a paintball at various shopfronts and a police car, but almost wet themselves with fear when they hear a siren behind them.
There was one facial expression, though, that many of them did agree on: a wide-eyed, lips-parted gasping face (similar to above) that Western cultures almost universally associate with fear and submission.
