I felt the same trepidation I do on boats, as if the captain were about to yell at me for being in the way, or because the bottoms of my sneakers have streaked the deck black.
Or was it, as a later viewing suggested, in hock to that same trepidation, creating an insular chic out of xenophobia?
Then, as now, the national team under desperately unconvincing management had lost so much credibility that many players considered a call to the colours with the same trepidation they would a summons to court.
And if they do get by the Rangers, the same trepidation and tumult happens the next series.
"I felt the same trepidation that every person who's a fan of the movie would feel," says Odenkirk.
"It's a wonderful opportunity, but with a bit of fear and trepidation as well," she says.
Also, in my experience, administrators have the same trepidation.
All the while, when I came home, I'd give in to the same trepidations.
There's nothing reflexive or familiar in here, each sentence is exquisitely judged; we read with the same astonishment and trepidation as if it was all happening now, and for the first time.
At the same time, tragically, other active Muslims who were entrenched in the community or worked in an organizing capacity (much like our president once did for the disenfranchised), ceased their activities over trepidation as to how their efforts towards equality could one day be misconstrued for something nefarious.
