stage fright

A combination of propriety and vomit-inducing stage fright has always kept her from going public with the virtuosic guitar chops she learned by emulating folkie heroes like Don McLean.
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Initially, she continued wearing the mask to cover her stage fright as she performed in front of thousands of people.
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But at this stage, he is either afraid or unable to get carried away by his thoughts.
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Whether he can do it on the national stage is the unanswered question.
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Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.
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He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.
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He said many of them had trouble making the transition from stage realism to the more naturalistic demands of the screen.
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Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"
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But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.
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In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.
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In Scotland and America that is distinguished and thought of clearly as the college stage.
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It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.
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British Dictionary definitions for stage fright

stage fright

noun

nervousness or panic that may beset a person about to appear in front of an audience

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stage fright

Acute nervousness when performing or speaking before an audience, as in When John first had to present his findings to the board of directors, stage fright made him stutter. [Second half of 1800s]

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