As they eagerly badgered us, we maintained conversation with serious trepidation, not wanting to say too much or too little.
On the day, I feel a certain amount of trepidation, not least because everyone I've spoken to about roller derby seemed to know someone who has broken their arm/leg/neck doing it.
Last month I flew to Ireland with trepidation, not because I feared terrorists but because I feared being seated near someone wearing perfume.
British banks are also lobbying against parts of a long-overdue proposal by the authorities to deal with ailing banks.For other European banks, there is trepidation not about whether their governments or central banks are willing to support them, but whether they can.
But this time they are full of trepidation, not margaritas.
Robert Collyer, deputy chief engineer for bridge design and construction in the city's Transportation Department, said he had approached the project with some trepidation, not knowing what workers would find when they removed the wooden deck.
She approached her first encounter with Mandela with trepidation, not only because of being a nervous 23-year-old; but probably also because as a young Afrikaner, she did not know how to relate to a man who, in the collective consciousness of most Afrikaners in South Africa, and perhaps most crucially in their collective unconscious, Nelson Mandela was still a terrorist.
I'd do a gig and after she'd say: 'It's not my cup of tea.'" Peel gave her the new album with some trepidation – not even telling her that it had been inspired by her gran.
Sonali is approaching publication of the book this week with a lot of trepidation, not least because many people, particularly colleagues in New York and neighbours in the apartment block where she lives, don't know her story.
BGI's rise is regarded with curiosity and some trepidation, not just because of the organization's size but also because of its opportunistic business approach (it has a center for pig cloning, dabbles in stem-cell research, and runs a diagnostics lab).
