Sentence examples for slightly fearful of from inspiring English sources

If anything, the problem with Nadia Tass's direction may be that it's too respectful toward the film's subject and slightly fearful of it.

"If anything," Julie Salamon wrote in The New York Times, "the problem with Nadia Tass's direction may be that it's too respectful toward the film's subject and slightly fearful of it".

'That and the fact that Lemmy was quite scary.' These days he is slightly fearful of hip hop, despite the fact that he and Barratt rap in their stage show.

It's possible some of my fellow Pythons-to-be might have been slightly fearful of me as a result, and I – reluctant as I would've been to admit this at the time, or indeed for many years afterwards – was rather intimidated by them.

I presume that Shiphrah and Puah were at least slightly fearful of the consequences that could follow defying the king's wishes.

And although I truly look forward to it's release, I'll admit that I feel slightly fearful of the female victor to come.

Charlotte always stood in (slightly fearful) admiration of Emily's genius – she referred to her as "a giant" and "a baby god" – but she seems never to have fully appreciated the younger sister's work.

Showing the whites of the eyes - could mean that the animal is unsure, nervous, tense, or slightly fearful Mad switching of the tail (this indicates intense anxiety, except when calves are suckling from momma or the flies are really bugging the cattle).

All of them moved about in silence, fluidly, cautiously, giving a slightly fearful impression.

For all their shadowy intent, I'm only slightly more fearful of the dead than the living, in particular the cult that Pierre has assembled at the Helping Hand.

A similar resolution passed by a slightly wider margin in 2007, but the Bush administration, fearful of losing Turkish cooperation over Iraq, lobbied forcefully to keep it from reaching the House floor.