I was half terrified, half amused.
When Mr. Mack was 11 and abused by his priest, he felt half giddy and half terrified.
Margaret Thatcher, by comparison, was a divisive ingenue, of whom half the country was apprehensive and the other half terrified.
She touched him for the first time, just the pads of her fingertips to his skinny biceps — like a dog's muscle, it twitched madly — and he rose, half terrified, his neck a rush of crimson, and made off down the river.
Luckily, Thrones VFX outfit Pixomondo has blessed us with a detailed behind-the-scenes look at how they created the half endearing, half terrifying dragons that have driven so much of the plot, and provided some of the most heart-pounding moments from the most recent season.
Half of the country is elated that it shook the political system, the other half is terrified, and many of us are just looking for answers.
But, half-blind, terrified, my ears ringing, sometimes rendered mute, sometimes the words stumbling off my twisted tongue, I still know Christmas.
Unable to come to terms, or even express, his sexuality, he lives in a shadowy half-world, terrified he will somehow reveal himself as gay while also longing for the men he sees on the street.
As in many great ghost stories, the result is a tightly controlled narrative surface, with half-glimpsed, terrifying depths.
"Aktion," for example, contains several lunging horses' heads; they're the mounts of German soldiers who confront a group of terrified half-naked women.
Then, in "some of the most powerful and hair-raising" words ever written on Troilus' death, Wolf describes how Achilles enters the temple, caresses then half-throttles the terrified boy, who lies on the altar, before finally beheading him like a sacrificial victim.
