Martha Parks Lindley found that despite being "frightened half to death" she was "so anxious to be with my husband" that she left her children with her sister, donned her husband's old clothes and followed him.
Everyone that day was really frightened, despite our denials.
But at no point do you feel frightened, despite rivers of blood, entrails stretched out of a living person and a vivisection of a horse by huge panes of glass while its exposed organs still function.
When we first meet Leonie at a Parisian riot, it is because the author tells us that we realise she is frightened, despite the brutal violence around her. Mosse keeps the text documentarily plain.
But they are hopeful despite themselves, and frightened of what might happen to this country of 23 million people, if Mr. Nastase, a powerful politician in his own right as the leader of the reformed Communist Party, fails to find a formula for economic transformation and political stability.
The president repeated his assertion that, despite the frightening situation at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex in Japan, nuclear power will remain an important source of electricity in the United States for decades to come.
Despite the frightening outlook one gets from the daily news, global incomes are rising, while poverty continues its decades-long decline, emissions in the US are dropping and even violence is on a downward trend, leading Foreign Policy magazine to crown the first 10 years of the 21st century as the best decade ever.
I ended up feeling sorry for him, despite having been as frightened as I've ever been.
For three decades the trauma of the Hama massacre made the Syrian people too frightened to revolt, despite the immense provocation the rank hereditary rule of the Assads gave them.
"This can convince the White House that China, despite its unwillingness, is not frightened to fight a war with the US in the region, and is determined to safeguard its national interests and dignity".
