Sentence examples for Paralyzing terror from inspiring English sources

All-consuming, paralyzing terror.

There is a fifth, unseen character, Joe's wife and Abigayle's mother, who remains in her bedroom with an illness doctors have been unable to diagnose but is probably just that paralyzing terror of life that pervades the play.

The new director was Daniel Mann, who fixed the staging but failed to recognize Dean's paralyzing terror.

It is all reminiscent of the paralyzing terror that African Americans endured for a century following the abrupt end of the Reconstruction Era in the late 1800s.

But overcoming the sheer paralyzing terror after you've been hit hard, not quitting and coming back with whatever you have, remaining calm enough to observe what's happening and doing your best until the bell rings, in that three minute eternity, lies a prize we lose at our own peril.

I knew I needed to buckle the strap, but my joy had turned to paralyzing terror.

The town was paralyzed with terror, he said, as people hid in shelters and orchards.

Governments must paralyze the terror and not suspend the flights.

Instead, she stands paralyzed with terror, breathing heavily in a semitransparent shift, sexualized and objectified, until he resolves his internal argument with a beating rather than a rape.

But every once in a while, I do find myself wondering who's crazier: that poor friend-of-a-friend paralyzed with terror in his apartment or the group of friends we meet at the local hummus joint after our kids' youth group every Tuesday night.

But psychologists and mental health workers here describe a population that has become paralyzed by the terror of the last red alert and the dread of the next one.