Stanhope refuses, recognizing that Hibbert is simply terrified of combat.
Director Janus Metz Pedersen and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months filming the young men stationed less than a kilometre away from a Taliban stronghold and captured both the terrifying confusion of combat and the compromised politics of occupation.
Gorongosa was a full-tilt battlefield, a zone of terrifying close-range combat, with tank battles and air raids adding to the maelstrom, as towns and villages were repeatedly overrun by one army only to be reclaimed by the other, back and forth, year in and year out.
He's the audience's surrogate — terrified, ignorant of combat, and nonviolent by nature — and he's the one cliché in the movie, the heir to those gentle fellows (Gary Cooper's Sergeant York, Audie Murphy's Audie Murphy) who start off quietly but learn the higher wisdom of war, which is that you must kill, and kill well, or be killed.
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Plenty of war and combat memoirs are somber, tragic, sometimes even terrifying.
Specialist Aguilar had also lived through several terrifying explosions — including five in one night — while working as a combat engineer, friends said.
Taking in the spectacle of Tura and a man actually fighting -- hand-to-hand combat, is sexy, for sure, but it's genuinely terrifying.
Grant, a newly minted colonel who has never commanded in combat, is terrified: "My heart kept getting higher and higher, until it felt to me as though it was in my throat".
Everything Geldof is saying is completely true: the spread of Ebola is terrifying, it must be stopped as quickly as humanly possible, and we need to raise funds to combat it.
