And as I said before, even on Picnic at Hanging Rock I was scared
shitless on what was going to come back the next night from the lab.
The desire of his eyes: an interview with Russell Boyd
What with all those Cotton Mathers and Jonathan Edwardses rushing around ranting about any kind of sex being a sin, I think gay men were probably scared
shitless by what they might have been feeling and thinking.
Queer theory's heist of our history
It turns out I feel angry, sad, scared
shitless, oddly hopeful, oddly gleeful (I do find the irony of certain aspects of it hysterically funny at times), chaotic, focused--and the list goes on.
Glamming it up with Taylor Mac; A drag performer and playwright fiercely embodies his own speculations about beauty and imperfection
Awareness of his son's behavior would have exacerbated the father's fear of his own: in the May 1947 letter in which he told Mary that he had dyed his hair bright red one late night, Ernest confessed that "naturally in the morning I was spooked
shitless" (qtd.
"A very attractive devil": Gregory Hemingway in Islands in the Stream
In the end, Werner decided to tell the truth: "I was scared
shitless" he says.
From spheres of civility to critical public spheres: democracy and citizenship in the big house (Part I)
I was scared
shitless but there was no point in trying to get away.
Morning Serial; Hole: Kidnapped in Georgia
I eBayed those bands' records into rent money years ago but when OG VSS salvos come shuffling out of my 2008 earbuds, I'm still thrilled
shitless.
The VSS Nervous Circuits (Hydra Head)
Embodiment of the Viz character Millie Tant, Carole could be a spectacular success or a disappointment who fails to fulfill her charming pledge to "shake the house
shitless".
Laura may stand out among a sea of wannabe wags; BIG BROTHER 8 Bruce Millington assesses the BB field in a quest for some value
You cover people saying, 'I'm scared
shitless!" instead of people saying what the hazard is.
Understanding the risk: what frightens rarely kills: to communicate with people about risk, journalists need to better understand how and why people respond in the ways they do to messages they receive about danger. An expert in risk communication explains the connection between risks that kill people and those that upset them, and he describes how best to approach audiences based on their beliefs about the risks they face
A Chinese lad on the west coast wrote to gloat that, since reading about my book, he'd been sticking it to the missus with rather more frequency and gusto than usual just to add one more Chinese baby to the yellow peril and thereby "scare me
shitless." I e-mailed back: Good for you.
Stuck on yesterday's issues: western civilization's fixation on racial discrimination blinds it to the real threat of societal disintegration
In an instant of rare lucidity, Corky apprehends the full significance of his membership of the white race, contemplating with profound unease the probable outcome of a fair, man-to-man fight between him and his black opponent: "If it was just Beechum and Corky Corcoran alone together of all the earth's inhabitants, no 'Caucasian race' standing outside Corky to give him definition and claim him for their own, Jesus, he would be scared
shitless" (380).
"Why such discontent?": race, ethnicity, and masculinity in What I Lived For
That's why they call him El Viejo and everyone is scared
shitless of him.
Waiting
These mostly young and inexperienced troops, almost all of who lack the professional training required of urban police officers, were, put simply, scared
shitless. Their training and their experience equiped them to secure hostile territory as invaders fighting an insurgency in war-torn Iraq.
Katrina's America: failure, racism, and profiteering
At the second meeting, Maguire tells Will that for all his smugness and book learning, he is just a "cocky, scared
shitless kid" who has "never dared to love anyone more than yourself ...
Hunting for good therapy
I was scared
shitless when I first came out, and not of the coaches.
Trample the dead, hurdle the weak