Sentence examples for trepidation before from inspiring English sources

I remember approaching the task with trepidation before I called in expert help.

Accepting the award, Mr. Masur confessed to having felt some trepidation before the concert.

It's hard not to feel a degree of trepidation before meeting Karin Dreijer Andersson.

"What is the place in Kansas like?" she asked a reporter with some trepidation before her first visit at Thanksgiving.

The only act to perform a new sketch on the night, Lynn recalls experiencing a degree of trepidation before taking to the stage.

Even an experienced chef (unless they are a megalomaniac) will feel trepidation before cooking for someone they love, especially for the first few times.

It seems likely that the nation's carpets have a lot more muddy footprints on them since the Kratt brothers hit the airwaves, and that parents are looking at their yards with a bit more trepidation than before.

I had my trepidation, but had learned long before in this business that you say "yes" to everything, because most things never happen.

"When you try something that no-one has done before, there is some trepidation and fear.

I must handle one trepidation at a time before I can ever take them to the top of the mountain". All of a sudden, I found myself completely engrossed, listening on a much deeper level.

Soviet musicologist Aleksandr Ossovsky writes of the two men, "With a hidden passion they both stop at moments of horror, total spiritual collapse, and finding acute sweetness in the cold trepidation of the heart before the abyss, they both force the reader to experience those feelings, too".