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The other, fearful or just numb?
That makes us fearful.
Sarah would no longer lie in her bed at night, fearful of the sound of her stepfather's footsteps coming up the stairs.
It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look, and look a little longer, and maybe even understand.
And when we're fearful, oversimplified narratives, conspiratorial explanations and language that demonizes others is far more effective.
The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his weapons, all of his tools.
As history points out, regimes become oppressive when they're fearful about keeping control.
Can you imagine the emptiness of knowing that you stood for nothing, that you risk nothing, that all you did was follow fearful people to where they were already going rather than trying to lead them to a better place?
Yesterday, during rehearsal, when I was told that I should "maybe cut the Black Lives Matter portion from my talk," I found myself fearful for a moment.
Fearful that again our stories were being denied the very stages they deserve to be told on.
I like the opening line in this film: "Deliver my heart from this fearful, lonely place.
Fearful survival.
Peter Boyle makes this film with his foul mouthed boorish portrayal of a working class stiff "Joe" in love with the past and fearful of the future and worried about the present.
Judith Ivey did so well portraying a weak, fearful, dependent, who was passive aggressive in her complaining and self-involved character, that it was a relief to see the character's metamorphosis.
The secret to this version's success is the unbearable tension that builds up as the group of men become suspicious of each other, the strain of literally waiting to be taken over takes a fearful hold.
Combine this mood with the cold, calculated actions of HAL 9000 and you have the most fearful villain imaginable.
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Whilst it is universally acknowledged that Fearful Symmetry was heavily influenced by the Kolchak episode They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be, whether this makes it a rip-off or a homage is an altogether more controversial point.
Forget Fearful Symmetry's dubious originality and just enjoy it as a deeply satisfying X File.
It is full of nuances and a perception of life as being quite ordinary and often fearful but what lifts this movie to a height rarely realized is its focus on the little incidences in our lives to which we normally only offer the briefest of attention spans.
It is also one of the few films which has really made me fearful to keep watching.
Fraidy Cat's previous lives haunt him as ghosts which are from different era's in time and are constantly trying to kill him off, but he is most fearful of the ninth life which is represented as a cloud in the shape of a number 9 and spits out lighting bolts.
I had always been a fan of horror-suspense series and liked monster movies, and with this series started by HBO I again had fearful pleasure.
We became engrossed and fearful upon learning of the unthinkable connection between these two characters.
Now,huddled up against the cold and fearful of being mugged by a Hoodie,they scuttle home as fast as their arthritic knees can carry them from the Video Shop,relatively happy in the certain knowledge that within the triple - locked comparative safety of their fourth - floor tower block flat they can regain just a small fragment of their lost youth and perhaps reflect that love truly is eternal.
Fearful Symmetry is a pleasant episode with a few faults.
I'm wondering if the air force bases are one and the same but they decided to use the real name in Fearful Symmetry.
They took a nervous and fearful Adam and made him a smiling and waving awkward kid.
Mr Warde gives a creepy feeling to the character, showing at the same time a brutal and fearful man, as possibly the real Richard III was.
A serial killer causes citizens of a small town fearful of opening their front doors...that is where he nails some of his victims.
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