Sentence examples for apparently afraid of from inspiring English sources

Wilson was apparently afraid of Pynchon, and Pynchon was shy.

Jewish American leaders were apparently afraid of making waves, and of losing their own prominence.

The Congress, apparently afraid of the political consequences of seeming to be "soft" on crime, passed the bill.

After the blast, young thawar rather than the army cordoned off the surroundings.The police are also lying low, apparently afraid of the locals' wrath.

The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was apparently afraid of death until he had a near-death experience of his own.

And when De Niro, who is apparently afraid of cockroaches, had to shoot a scene in which a bug crawls across his desk, Williams wrapped pipe cleaners over his ears and pretended to be a roach who didn't get the part.

Cleveland fans, though, are apparently afraid to dream of a championship yet.

Not attending but, apparently, afraid to say so.

The Senator is apparently afraid to air Inhofe's views where they might be challenged, but enjoys bullying people from the protection of the Senate chamber.

Stephen King is apparently afraid that he may have lost the capacity to make the rest of us quake with terror.

Apparently afraid that I might be offended if he said I appeared Chinese or Filipino, the flustered official turned to Japan's historic adulation of the West.