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fright

noun as in extreme apprehension

noun as in horrifying or unpleasant sight

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What used to fuel her stage fright, she says, was her belief that there was a right way and a wrong way to perform.

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As any seasoned horror movie fan can attest, few frights are as reliably nauseating as eyeball trauma.

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Sharing with Olyphant that this was my earliest memory of what robots might be capable of resurfaced an equivalent fright in his memory: The Robot from “Lost In Space.”

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I have terrible stage fright and I am always worried about disappointing people.

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Original tale “Scarecrow: The Reaping,” which began at Universal Studios Florida, mixes in jump scares with more natural-seeming frights, such as the aforementioned simulated dust bowl.

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