Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009

Hello:

Does
"I felt little interest in possible danger,"
for some reason, sound better than:
"I felt little interest in the possible danger?"

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[After being involved in a car accident, they're trying to stop a bus
to pick them up]

Brent, with surprising agility for so fat a man, jumped up from where
he was sitting, and ran out into the centre of the road, holding his
arms wide apart as if in supplication. He was followed by Duport,
apparently shaking his fist. I felt little interest in possible danger
of their being run over: only a great relief that the bus must in any
sense come to a standstill, whether they were killed or not.

Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring, p. 137
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu