The phrase "a cry of fear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vocal expression of fear, often in a dramatic or literary context.
Example: "As the shadows crept closer, a cry of fear escaped her lips, echoing through the empty hall."
Alternatives: "a scream of terror" or "a shout of fright".
So seldom does this anniversary qualify as a major milestone that The Observer's self-indulgent coverage of its 220th birthday yesterday almost read like a subconscious cry of fear that it may not make it to 221.
For example, a news report about a woman suffering from breast cancer typically conveys a persuasive message of a cry for fear.
With a cry, almost of fear, he tried to shoo it out.
Politically, the release of "Revolution" prompted immediate responses from the New Left and counterculture press: Ramparts branded it a "betrayal", and the New Left Review said the song was "a lamentable petty bourgeois cry of fear".
So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, -- A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear: How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every blackening Church appalls, And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper's cry Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace-walls.
I fear that a proclamation on the heels of a defeat would be interpreted as a cry of despair.
