Sentence examples for plain afraid from inspiring English sources

I was also just plain afraid.

One trouble, he explained, is that dope pushers flock to neighborhoods where two gangs are at war, knowing they will find buyers among members of the gangs who are so keyed up that they welcome any kind of relaxation or who are just plain afraid.

Whether Paterno was deferring to institutional processes or just plain afraid, we may never know.

"The rhetoric around immigration has just grown so intense that people are plain afraid to talk about it.

Undeterred, reviewers use it when they are needlessly afraid of using plain old write.

Mr. Chamberlain made it plain that he was not afraid of the dictators and would fight, if necessary, for democracy.

Her claim that they are "afraid" is just plain hogwash.

4. The Rose, Li Young Lee Leee is a poet who values plain language and isn't afraid to veer towards sentimentality when addressing universal themes like love and family.

"If somebody uses an acronym he doesn't know, he'll stop them and say, 'What does that mean?' Sometimes he says, 'Use plain English.' He's not afraid to say when he doesn't know".

While O'Brien's technical skills should be crisp enough to please the iciest avant-gardist, he has one virtue more cerebral poets often lack: he isn't afraid to make a plain statement.

America's white people are afraid of losing power, plain and simple.