"I watched in trepidation because you really want to come to something fresh and free.
"It looks really big," says Ward, with some trepidation.
"So there's been a little bit of trepidation, with people not really knowing if they're going to be involved or not - but since Thursday everybody is really buzzing about it now.
I really didn't know what to expect, and my trepidation grew by the mile as we sped across a seemingly endless expanse of brown and parched landscape, with hardly a green plant in sight.
Sitting at the counter behind open sacks of rice and beans, the storekeeper, Daoud, 38, cracks his bronzed face with a smile, sharing the optimism but also the trepidation about whether at last his country can really make something of itself.
Once consumer trepidation regarding e-tailers wore off, it was really only a matter of time before physical stores with limited stock and pushy salespeople bit the dust.
Now is the time to lose the trepidation and show the world what we're really made of.
Funny really, because ever since I took on that first commissioning role – with some trepidation – I've been doing my best to improve my skills.
So this, really, is her first contemporary novel and she admits that it gave her some trepidation.
And I was even really looking forward to the tour – and that used to be the thing that filled me with trepidation".
