Sentence examples for secret afraid from inspiring English sources

Think of Chichikov travelling around Russia buying up "dead souls" (Gogol warned a correspondent to keep the novel's subject matter secret, afraid of giving away his invention), or of Bellow's Herzog writing his mental letters to great thinkers and public figures.

For weeks, the pair met in secret, afraid that their commanders would disapprove.

I put the book behind a secret shelf, afraid it would crumble if brought into the world, and walked the lighted stairs, taller than I had descended.

I am convinced that graphene has immense possibilities, which is why Dyson is exploring potential applications (secret, I'm afraid) with Andre Geim at Manchester University, and other universities in England.

I was instead used to being treated like a scandalous secret by guys afraid of openly dating a transgender woman.

Stories that were read in hiding by housewives and mothers, afraid their secret lives would be discovered, are now being publicly performed.

In André's case, decisions were made in secret and everyone was afraid to challenge the eldest generation in charge.

Leno added that NBC executives who had gotten word of a secret Letterman taping were afraid Letterman had filmed a promo with President Obama.

"Now that I'm in the city and in university, I'm trying it out, but in secret because I'm afraid my family will find out".

If you can keep it a tight proof secret, don't be afraid to talk about this with a potential lover.

The Web site describes a relatively straight-forward plot: "A megalomaniac boss appears to have achieved the impossible by setting up the City's first truly ethical investment bank but his star employee is in the midst of a meltdown, having uncovered terrible secrets she's too afraid to share".