Sentence examples for merely afraid of from inspiring English sources
After Jaws, people weren't merely afraid of sharks.
(Although exactly whom he thinks he has wronged Mia, her mother, his family or whether he's merely afraid of having made legal trouble for himself, is never made clear).
But each variety of Russian roulette can be played only so often, before the adrenaline peters out? "Yes," he said, with that quiet thoracic chuckle that accompanies particularly his more baleful remarks, "and one is merely afraid of being sick on the back of the pilot".
To see if the infants were merely afraid of the bully and thus choosing the other shape simply because it seemed safer the team introduced a cylinder into the video; the kids still reached for the object that got "hurt," the researchers report online today in PLOS ONE, suggesting that our concern for other people begins before we can express it in words.
Looking back, I am sure that this Muslim man was merely afraid, like me, except he was afraid of an unsafe flight, and I was afraid of him.
Is it reasonable to ask people who are already suffering or at risk to compromise their safety or privacy, merely because we are afraid of being tricked?
In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin recalls his friend's challenge: To stay in the church merely because I was afraid of leaving it was unutterably far beneath me, and too despicable a cowardice for him to support in any friend of his.
In the world view of PAC.com, that's nothing to be afraid of; politicians are merely the last ones to get dealt into the game.
Sharia is nothing to be afraid of and it merely encompasses a code which many Muslims already live by, regardless of where they are.
It wouldn't be merely the Chinese he would be afraid of either; it would be the Japanese and Koreans and Vietnamese too.
She seemed unworldly, more spirit than flesh, and he still found himself hesitant to approach her, to take her — afraid of seeming crass, hungry, merely carnal.
