Sentence examples for scared beyond from inspiring English sources

The American people have been scared beyond all imagination because of Sept. 11.

"When you have the earth shaking, when mother nature reaches up with her ugly, powerful hand and does something like that, people get scared beyond their sensibilities, and they're very primal in that moment," Bowman said.

He says he was scared beyond words to take such a big step, but he trusted that in order to live a life of passion he was going to have get past his fear to do the thing that scared him, just like he pushes his clients to do.

So when the opportunity came up to perform in a play, I was beyond scared!

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"Beyond Scared Straight," whose executive producer, Arnold Shapiro, directed the original "Scared Straight!" in 1978, takes the cautionary impulse of the A&E prime-time schedule to a new meta level.

Without giving too much away, what we are watching is a nation in denial, clinging to its innocence, too scared to look beyond the flimsy white picket fence it has erected to protect its dreams.

Poor Winslet now appears to be too scared to stray beyond this pattern, seeing as she reaches for the Little Mermaid dress shape every time she spies a red carpet.

You could lament the programming strategy that is being applied here, but there's one more thing, beyond titillation and voyeurism, that ties the A&E lineup together: From "Intervention" and "The First 48" to "Beyond Scared Straight" and "Heavy," these are well made, compulsively watchable series.

That "Beyond Scared Straight" did so well for A&E makes sense, because it encapsulates the network's prime-time strategy: to drag the viewer past scenes of criminality, addiction, obsession and depression, in a constant cycle of there but for the grace of reality TV go we.

In addition to the long-running "First 48" this month A&E is showing "Beyond Scared Straight," a jail-based series about juvenile intervention, and last month showed "The Peacemaker: L.A. Gang Wars," about a negotiator seeking truces between rival Los Angeles gangs.