These women embraced a prefab superstition with utter conviction, as if it were objective fact and I was really, truly endangering them.
If I neglect to turn off my cellphone, will I really endanger the plane?
And in the end, those are the issues that really endanger American interests and lives.
In Governor Palin's view, what is really endangered is Alaska's economic growth.
No one was really endangered by that, and you could tell it satisfied a universal longing for anyone who's worked in a service profession.
"Rubber was flying all over the place, getting stuck in the engine and really endangering the lives of the passengers and crew," Luckey says.
"This species is really endangered because of a dam that flooded the cave system," he says, adding that repeat visits to the cave have not produced any more cave sleepers since the initial find 20 years ago.
The problem is that modern life is fraught with things that don't really endanger us, but trick the adrenals into turning on the fight or flight switch.
But let's look at who is really endangering the public's safety, because watching Shell try to explain why its drill ship, the Noble Discoverer, recently lost its mooring in the sheltered Dutch Harbour is really no joke.
The Israel they have gotten to know in person, if they have been here at all, is a successful startup nation, not really endangered by any of its neighbors, filled with excellent restaurants and cafés that serve an espresso macchiato better than anything that you can get in Manhattan.
