Sentence examples for fright for from inspiring English sources
Instead of conceding Costa's dominance, Ferrero blamed pain, not stage fright, for his unsightly collapse in the first two sets.
I actually got stage fright for the first time in my life six months into the run.
"I had the worst stage fright for a couple of years," he said, "but I've gotten to the point where I'm enjoying myself — even though the stress is still there".
Now, at 31, she comes across as happy and at peace with herself, although she admits that she still suffers from some stage fright, for which she takes the drug Inderal, a beta blocker that is generally prescribed for hypertension but is also used off label for performance anxiety.
Nevertheless, the bit of criminal playacting did provide a brief moment of fright for the man and his girlfriend, neither of whom was identified by the police, as their masked friends piled out of a van and threw a pillowcase over the head of the man, the police said.
I was introduced, they greeted me with a genuine cordiality and respect — and the respect increased my fright, for it meant that they expected something of me that I knew in my heart, for their sakes, I could not give — and we sat down.
But the show isn't merely cheap laughs and frights for grown-ups; it's a history lesson, in a macabre sort of way.
Activities will include aquatic-theme magic shows and live music; pumpkin carving in animal shapes; storytelling; and "Haunted Seafari" (also open on Friday), a habitat emphasizing some really big frights for ocean life, like overfishing and pollution.
Activities will include aquatic-theme magic shows and live music; "The Curse of Skull Rock," a 4-D (3-D with special effects) movie; storytelling; and "Haunted Seafari," a habitat emphasizing some really big frights for ocean life, like overfishing and pollution.
Its cheesy pop-culture self-consciousness -- most evident in the moderately clever premise of assembling an all-star team of 19th-century literary monsters -- has no room for real fright, or for the pathos and longing that lurk beneath the surface dread in the best horror movies.
The sisters sipped maté tea and sorted through fright wigs for that night's concert.
