Hitting the "cues" continues to be a cause of trepidation and triumph for the silent film accompanist, as many of the musicians at the festival attested.
It eases the burden of ratings and reviews by removing the need for constant trepidation and creates an environment where they're actually an asset for mobile teams.
But for most students, inching through the summer toward "move in" day is a cause for excitement, trepidation, and uncertainty.
And there are very sound reasons for trepidation – dramatic technology driven change, where the delivery and access to financial services is a prime beneficiary, creates significant opportunity for those with nefarious intent.
One reason for trepidation was the possibility of Mr Esser mounting a "barbed-wire" defence, mobilising politicians and unions against the British company.
His distaste for trepidation made a six-decade viewer like Peter Howard marvel that Donovan "takes players on," that he is "not frightened" and that, in loftiest praise, "To me, he's an old-fashioned English winger".
Foreign holidays can be politically damaging, too: Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Swedish prime minister, has been criticised for choosing a trip to Turkey over a memorial service for the victims of the Norway killings.But this year there is good reason for trepidation: the financial markets do not take a break in August.
There may be a touch of fear in the air; the past may still lean on the present, but Muscovites, cell-phone obsessed, are either too busy working for money or even busier spending it to have much time for trepidation.
The so-called "good" food movement has good reason for trepidation in the coming year.
The specter of the maniacal Rudy Giuliani as a potential Attorney General, whose ideas of stop and frisk could set back civil liberties for decades, surely gives libertarians reason for trepidation.
