Sentence examples for frightened of upsetting from inspiring English sources

"I'm not frightened of upsetting the very politically correct class who are afraid to touch difficult issues.

Hastings predicts that Britain will be lucky to "get through" 2014 without David Cameron apologising "to Angela Merkel's forebears, for ever thinking unkindly of them", and complains that the Cameron government has succumbed to "political correctness" and is "frightened" of "upsetting today's Germans".

If you're frightened of upsetting, offending or winding up your friend, get other people to help you.

"Compared with Clarke, he played some of the findings down, though he did suggest the council are not really giving the full picture and are too frightened to upset Islamists or Muslim people".

Some people are so frightened of experiencing this upset that they block their own growth and evolution to avoid it.

I think the government is very frightened of taking any sort of view that might suggest we upset the Germans all over again".

Items (e.g., "My child worries that he/she will do something embarrassing in front of other people", "My child would be upset at sleeping away from home", "My child is frightened of dogs") are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 0 (not at all true) to 4 (very often true).

"You're frightened of them?" "They're frightening people.

What was I frightened of?

"I felt frightened of it.

Are you frightened of anything?