Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan noted, "My sense of the relationship [between Darth Vader and the Emperor] is that the Emperor is much more powerful... and that Vader is very much intimidated by him.
Of course, if you're the beneficiary of a £300m Swiss trust fund, courtesy of a father, James Goldsmith, who built a ruthless reputation and a billion-pound fortune from corporate raiding, if you're blessed with dashing good looks and you're not much intimidated, as most MPs are, by the thought of losing your job, then you're probably not going to win any House of Commons popularity contests.
RULE 6 The power lies with the newcomers Not much intimidates Donna Dubinsky.
"What [Abbott's] attempting to do is not so much intimidate the Victorian Labor party, he's trying to intimidate Victorian voters," Albanese said.
Since they appeared on the scene, there's been a striking improvement in American distance running, and young runners nowadays seem much less intimidated by their African competition.
Students also seemed much more intimidated in the presence of faculty.
To do something with people I admire and respect so much is intimidating no matter what, but to have it be in a different arena than you're used to, it just added to that intimidation.
With their towers and battlements, these domestic fortresses of Christendom, built as much to intimidate as to inspire, were close cousins and coevals of the Crusader castles in Turkey and the Middle East, like Birecik, Markab, and Crac des Chevaliers, whose lordly ruins I later saw, always from a distance and always with an unwelcome pang of déjà vu.
"A lot of people have told me, 'I don't care how much they intimidate us, I'm going to be there.' " And so will police officers like Francis Spangenberg, one of the thousands of officers who spent the day standing in the rain.
The cat will find you much less intimidating that way.
I imagine that insecure people who haven't done much can feel intimidated by those that have had the initiative and courage to get out there.
