Word: frightingly
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There are no abrupt transitions in the work. Each of six characters retains a unique sense of herself while passing through subtle inflections of mood. The coda "Velvets" summarizes the piece well: five women in long velvet gowns turn slowly in place, evolving a series of gestures suggesting fright, aloofness, serenity...
...some occasions, that feeling can be hard to achieve. Inconsistency is a problem, as Dorothy will admit herself. Says Button bluntly: "She can blow it." The reason is nerves, her invariable, inescapable stage fright. "It's like going to an execution," says Dorothy, "your own. I stand there in the dressing room thinking, 'Am I going to fall? Why am I doing this? I'll never do it again...
...church is that the people in charge are more Christ-like," Larry Dewey '73, a first-year medical student, says. "The man in authority works more hours, loves more and serves more people. The idea of [taking on the job of] branch presidency just makes my soul quiver with fright...
...suspicious looking young man less than one mile from the crime. The man gunned down Tippit. The critics ask, "Why did Tippit stop Oswald?" Only Tippit knew. But if a gunman who had just shot the President saw a police car approach, he might well show signs of fright. Oswald was so shaken moments after killing Tippit that a suspicious storekeeper followed him to a theater, where Oswald was arrested...
...close' barred its shutters and bolted its doors again, and the dust gathered and the cobwebs thickened in the empty rooms, where for a moment I had heard an echo. Later, "now deeply, helplessly in love," she finds her personality being "swept away" by his, and wonders with fright, in Lewis's words, "whether it might not be the destiny of women to find their individuality blotted out by love...