“I was terrified at the thought of interviewing him. I’m not easily intimidated, but this time was different. Would he ridicule me? Mock me? Say something rude to me? I had seen him do it on his show. “
The sentence is a contradiction. How can a person not be easily intimidated, yet “terrified” of ridicule, mocking, or having someone say something rude?
The article is a nice bit of truth, but that sentence is bizarre.
I would say that to date she’d been able to handle most anything and WASN’T intimidated but from what had been reported about the man, perhaps that was about to change if he followed true to form the media made of him. Makes sense to me. There’s a first time for everything and foolish to believe there isn’t.