And I think they've been fairly successful in scaring them out of the state of Alabama".
Audiences go to the movies hoping to be serviced -- amused or thrilled or scared -- in fairly specific, familiar ways.
(Nichols recalled her as "a beautiful and dangerous girl that interested me enormously, scared me" — a fairly apt description, as it happens, of the signature Nichols leading lady).
The motive is fairly clear: When people get scared, they look for and buy things (e.g., guns) to protect themselves.
"I managed to avoid it [hitting my face], but it hit me in the chest, which was really quite painful," said Les. "It was a fairly minor injury, but it scared me.
After all, the lawyerly letter is a fairly transparent scare tactic.
By Elizabeth Drew The New Yorker, November 2 , 1992P. 56 Despite George Bush's problems, as Bill Clinton headed into the final 2 1/2 weeks with a fairly comfortable lead, his advisors were "scared to death".
Since Spectre is set to land next Monday, distributors are running scared, and the coming weekend offers fairly lean pickings.
And though he has a fairly expressionless face and monotone voice anyway, he was so scared that he had no expression whatsoever and his voice was entirely monotone.
An only child, whose hurt feelings are treated fairly brusquely by these well-to-do professional parents, Chihiro is scared by the feelings of loneliness that are creeping up on her.
