Sentence examples for mild terror from inspiring English sources

King's expression – part confusion, part mild terror – said it all.

But there he is, nervously glugging his wine and looking across the table at me in a state of mild terror.

He ended this reign of mild terror by tweeting a link to a piece in which he did indeed spit venom all over the Watchman movie, and promptly fell silent forever.

And yet everyone who once would have prayed for me has long since gone on to Eternity, and I, desperately lonely, am haunted by the scuffing feet of dog-walkers and the skittering of leaves in Autumn, doomed to exist in this semi-death forever, in a perpetual state of mild Terror, until Time itself shall end and our Creator returns to redeem us all.

This awe changes instantly to mild terror when Mike starts violently punching the van's horn.

This awe changed instantly to mild terror when Mike started violently punching the van's horn.

Mild panic ensued.

They were much more this year, thanks to the last novel's mild success, wry fruit of terror-fear and author's tours.

The terror lessened to a milder sense of dread.

This is the novelist's new nightmare: the terror of an interest so mild and vastly dispersed that it fails to create the slightest wrinkle on the sluggish swell of human attention.

About five years before his death, Evelyn "lost all terror," Auberon says — he became benevolent, mild — and from then on the two men enjoyed a "distinct cordiality".