Sentence examples for too afraid that from inspiring English sources

He didn't say 'read.' He was too afraid that books were passé, that printing itself was a lost art.

I never drank; I was too afraid that I would lose control of the situation and get caught.

Over the course of the book, her anxieties and idiosyncrasies keep her from real growth or change; she's too afraid that things "won't turn out right," which Russo interprets, retrospectively, as her fear of poverty.

"Should I tell them now or wait till I'm sicker?" The first, much-anticipated benefits of personalized medicine are being lost or diluted for many Americans who are too afraid that genetic information may be used against them to take advantage of its growing availability.

Too afraid that if we take a leap of faith, we'll fall.

We're too afraid that by honestly exploring a more complex idea, we might inadvertently give up some ground.

If you're too afraid to take that on, if you need supercommittees to take that on, then you're not a leader.

"I was always too afraid to take that giant step outside the mainstream," she said.

"I never wanted their money but I was too afraid to say that, as I fear[ed] they might slaughter me".

Plenty of nice guys don't get the girl because they can't look at her, plenty of salesmen don't make the sale because their sideways glances give them away, and plenty of people don't seem confident and put together because they're too afraid to make that connection.

But we were too afraid to give Ryan that room when it came to his sexuality, for fear that he'd make the wrong choice.