Sentence examples for he were afraid from inspiring English sources
Tentative, almost fatally respectful, he treats his characters very gingerly, as if he were afraid he might break them.
At other times, he checked his enthusiasm, as if he were afraid it would bring down on his head the wrath of some corporate god.
He had a sad look of illness; at times he had a kind of eager quickness, as if he were afraid of something being left unfinished.
"He gave me the scripts like a child turning in his homework, as if he were afraid of what I was going to say," Mr. Silberman said.
In that show, Bradford was working on what can essentially be termed a smaller emotional scale, as though he were afraid to unleash the full breadth of his inquiry into time and place.
Ruders ordinarily thrives on gothic atmosphere — he once made a bone-chilling setting of Poe's "The City in the Sea" — but his cathedral scene feels strangely attenuated, as if he were afraid of losing comic momentum.
