Now you are fighting for survival, digging a shelter with your bare hands, and cowering in the dark till the sun shoos your tormentors back into hiding.
As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
Each time I tried to pick it up, it would dodge my hands, darting around the box and cowering in the corners to avoid me.
Do we simply sit in the corner and cower in fear?
At the end of the set we all had to leg it off the lorry and cower in somebody's house until a policeman escorted us to the bus stop and we headed home.
The first 11 bullets missed presumably flying wildly into the suburban street as neighbors dove for cover and cowered in fear but the final shot was true.
The rest of us my mother, brother, sister, and I would cower in the living room, crying, begging her not to kill us.
He said he uses charm, not intimidation, but added that some drivers are alarmists and cower needlessly in the driver's seat.
My protests and attempts to cower in the corner were met with an angry glare – and even more blasts of water.
In the exhibition, one of them depicts a desperate working man who is struggling to shut his door on the specter of death, as his family and a nurse cower in the background.
