Sentence examples for fearful years from inspiring English sources

The E.F.F. has released a timeline of N.S.A. domestic spying, tracing the increasing surveillance of American citizens in the fearful years following 9/11.

Mann was hardly the only Central European émigré who experienced uneasy feelings of déjà vu in the fearful years after the end of the Second World War.

As well as rewriting the destinies of famous public figures, Roth re-imagines the life of his own family and their neighbours in a Jewish enclave of Newark, during the fearful years of the Lindbergh presidency.

IT HAS been a fearful year for Roman Catholics in Boston.

But at night they all scuttle back to the safety of their boats, fearful after years of scare stories about kidnappings and murders.

Buy from Amazon.comPERHAPS the key difference between the gay-rights movement and the campaigns for black and women's equality was this: before gay people could band together against discrimination, they first had to know, in the 20th century's closeted and fearful middle years, that there were other gay people to band together with.

I never thought of my father as fearful, but years later in raising my own child, I presume he was.

I was first hospitalized at Columbia Presbyterian for two weeks, as a distraught and fearful eight-year-old.

"There, now, that didn't hurt, did it?" A Manhattan doctor asked a fearful five-year-old patient just after administering a Salk-vaccine shot.

It becomes painfully intimate when the writer is a wise but fearful 89-year-old woman who is facing a death she has not yet accepted.

By L. N. Field and J. M. Flagler The New Yorker, October 5, 1957 P. 36 "There, now, that didn't hurt, did it?" A Manhattan doctor asked a fearful five-year-old patient just after administering a Salk-vaccine shot.