Fearful
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Also, investors have become highly (and happily) dependent on central banks, when they should be prudently more
fearful
of them.
Fearful
people seek protection from powerful authority figures.
Fearful
voters will not be satisfied by better statistical analysis or policy reforms that address the threat only indirectly.
Fearful
of the Islamist surge, the authorities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE launched an unrelenting and coordinated effort to stem the rising influence of groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in the region.
Fearful
people, not only in the US, seek scapegoats, and they are usually people who look different.
In fact, there are strong grounds to believe that an insecure US – afflicted with macroeconomic imbalances of its own making and
fearful
of the consequences of its own retreat from global leadership – has embraced a false narrative on China.
At the moment, one of the most serious economic obstacles is the interruption to transport caused by
fearful
local governments.
In many countries, people of Asian descent are reporting racist attacks, and feel
fearful
living and working in communities that they used to think of as home.
Indebted and
fearful
consumers may not resume their previous levels of spending even if they have jobs.
Likewise, Xi’s colleagues on the Politburo Standing Committee,
fearful
of appearing disloyal, are loath to share information that may contradict his view.
He was unpleasantly deferential, as if
fearful
of intimacy with persons whom he did not respect.
He took her hand and drew it toward his lips, but as if
fearful
that this might be disagreeable to her he changed his mind, let her hand drop, and merely stroked it.
Hopeless as his case was, obvious as it was that he could not recover, Levin and Kitty were for that hour both in the same state of excitement, happy yet timid and
fearful
of being mistaken.
Puddles made holes in the pathway, and she pulled up her clothes,
fearful
of arriving too dirty.
He was seized with the fury of despair, and could only utter oaths:"My God! my God! my God!"Catherine, Lydie, and Mouquette, who had also rushed up, began to sob and shriek with terror in the midst of the
fearful
disorder, which was increased by the darkness.
Besides, he willingly acknowledged that there was something in these ideas, which attracted him by their
fearful
simplicity.
Was it not
fearful?
The crater was being emptied, however, and the water, drunk by the earth, was sinking, and revealing the
fearful
ruin at the bottom.
It was a sight of
fearful
agony, this old beast shattered and motionless, struggling at this depth, far from the daylight.
For nine days the work of their deliverance had been going on, and they were for the first time taking a few steps in the gallery when a
fearful
commotion threw them to the ground.
This, he claims, is a sea subject to
fearful
hurricanes, strewn with inhospitable islands, and 'with nothing good to offer,' either on its surface or in its depths.
More tranquil and less
fearful
than their northern relatives, they posted no sentinels on guard duty at the approaches to their campsite.
At last, those who still doubted doubted no longer when one day they saw her getting out of the "Hirondelle," her waist squeezed into a waistcoat like a man; and Madame Bovary senior, who, after a
fearful
scene with her husband, had taken refuge at her son's, was not the least scandalised of the women-folk.
"What an imbecile I am!" he said with a
fearful
oath.
She could bear it no longer; she ran into the sitting room as if to take the apricots there, overturned the basket, tore away the leaves, found the letter, opened it, and, as if some
fearful
fire were behind her, Emma flew to her room terrified.
Her chest soon began panting rapidly; the whole of her tongue protruded from her mouth; her eyes, as they rolled, grew paler, like the two globes of a lamp that is going out, so that one might have thought her already dead but for the
fearful
labouring of her ribs, shaken by violent breathing, as if the soul were struggling to free itself.
His heart was flooded with joy, not because he loved Madame de Renal, but because a
fearful
torment was now at an end.
At one moment she was afraid of not being loved in return, at another the
fearful
thought of the crime tortured her as though on the morrow she would have to be exposed in the pillory, on the public square of Verrieres, with a placard proclaiming her adultery to the populace.
The maid, amazed at the
fearful
distress in which she found her mistress, paid no attention fortunately to this singular utterance.
He opened the door with a trembling hand, making a
fearful
noise as he did so.
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