Sentence examples for Widespread paranoia from inspiring English sources

But widespread paranoia has drawbacks.

In some quarters it is also felt that a successful attack on Syria's Bashar al-Assad may strengthen not just the jihadist sections of the Syrian opposition, but those across the region – a particularly sensitive concern in Egypt, where there is widespread paranoia about the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's Islamist movement that is now widely painted as a terrorist organisation.

But by the time Robert De Niro moved into the streets, New York was entering a nightmare phase in which the fatal combination of drugs and guns brought a sense of menace to the city, leading to widespread paranoia among drivers.

Because essentially, in just a few years, we've gone from widespread paranoia that dealers' phones are being tapped, to complacency over posting and viewing pictures of coke and pills on social media.

Adam Curtis made a great film about how the US Government employed Cold War tactics on the American public in order to promote widespread paranoia – watch it now, I know you have time – and I don't think the current climate for socialising in the UK is far from where they were at.

While it made British parents more aware of the web's dangers, it also fuelled a widespread cultural paranoia about the supposed dark side of the new digital age.

However, no good deed goes unpunished, and widespread media paranoia about business metrics still lingering from the 2000 dot com crash combined with other missteps on Groupon's part combined to make the use of those non-standard metrics highly controversial and ultimately negative for the company".

In a very brief chapter entitled "Snow", Alvarez reveals the impact of this widespread cultural paranoia through the character of Yolanda, who mistakes her first experience of snowfall for "the beginning of a much anticipated nuclear attack", causing a panicked outbreak of general hysteria in her classroom.

Carriere, Zuloaga and others exemplify a widespread mood of paranoia, pessimism and general fin-de-siecle angst, cutting across nationalities, generations and styles.

While this sort of thing must happen (in this world, every kind of "crazy" occasionally happens), would it be in such numbers that ongoing widespread sperm entrapment paranoia is justified?

Rosi's Lucky Luciano (1973) was made after The Godfather, and owes something to Coppola's film, but probably more to movies like The Conversation and the Watergate mood of paranoia and widespread unease.