It's a terribly sad thing but we can't morbidly retreat in fear or mourning.
She retreated in fear at first, but then she took it all in — Ogechi at the sink, Mama's prized shampoo on the ledge, suds covering mother-knows-what — and she turned sly, running outside and shouting for Mama.
The mountains shuddered, crumbled, and retreated in fear, while the sticky smelly ground turned into a thick green brittle rock with razor-sharp edges that glinted in the stark white light.
They puff up their carapaces and scuttle frantically, making a sizzling noise meant to gross me out and make me jerk my head back and cause me to retreat in fear.
Cold and mesmerizing, he used his pure line to seductive effect: the four brides were drawn to his spellbinding persona and others onstage retreated in fear, a wonderful touch.
No ski resort in North America has a chute so legendary as Corbet's Couloir in Wyoming a crucible where skiers go to prove their mettle (or more often, to retreat in fear).
I think of Danny, of his good friend and co-rioter Martin Boyce, of Miss New Orleans, the homeless trans girl who uprooted a parking meter and used it as a battering ram to destroy the door of the Stonewall Inn, behind which the police had retreated in fear.
We have seen Democrats acquiesce or retreat in fear.
Now, in threatening to expose private files compiled by advocates for abuse survivors, they are giving victims new reason to retreat into fear and secrecy.
