be frightened

Americans are right to be frightened and disillusioned by the resurgence of a man who ran on racism and sexism.

Yet what if we should really be frightened not so much of the “long, cold dark” as our unwillingness to confront it?

He was a gambler and divider of opinions who became a rock-steady first minister with a mission to show voters that he could govern for all, using devolution to prove independence was nothing to be frightened of.

Another day, he appeared suddenly to be frightened after using the bathroom, and then charged at a computer plugged in nearby.

And, she suggests, they wanted their then-only child not to be frightened by the momentous change they had decided on: “They explained the journey to me using words from the fantastical stories I loved to read: adventure, new, exciting.”