"Execution: the carrying out of a death sentence by lawful authority, so a terrorist, for example, does not 'execute' someone" Karen Woo travelled to the remote Nuristan region of northern Afghanistan with hopes of making a difference, with undimmed passion to help others, and with no little trepidation for the physical and mental challenges ahead.
"Sloan?" The locksmith greeted me with no sign of trepidation.
Shake with ice, or with trepidation, whichever is most handy, and strain into a cocktail glass.
I approached our meeting with President Obama yesterday with trepidation.
Many have resumed their lives post-Ikea with no small amount of trepidation about what will happen next.
I must say, though, that while I am eager to offer pleasing ideas, I do so with no small amount of trepidation.
"It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk," he opened, "and face this learned audience".
With no small amount of trepidation, I lay open here the first page of my diary — high-schoolish stabs at intellectualism, fleeting girlish obsessions, deliberately obscure annotations and all.
In the Sunday Book Review essay "My Life With Bob, Pamela Paull describes her habit of writing the title of every book she's read since high school in a journal she calls Bob: With no small amount of trepidation, I lay open here the first page of my diary — high-schoolish stabs at intellectualism, fleeting girlish obsessions, deliberately obscure annotations and all.
With no small measure of trepidation -- my last voyage under power had been on a leaky inflatable dinghy with a cranky five-horsepower outboard -- I accepted an offer for a spin with Lilly aboard one of the two Pier 57 Super Vee Lights.
