The phrase "a current of fear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an underlying feeling of fear that is pervasive or influential in a situation or environment.
Example: "As the storm approached, there was a current of fear among the villagers, worried about the potential destruction."
Alternatives: "an undercurrent of fear" or "a wave of fear".
At Mizzou this week, online threats against black students sent a current of fear through the campus.
"The silences I had encountered bespoke a current of fear that lingered in the air after years of violence," he writes.
In the vast poster hall, where scientists present their recent research in a school-science-fair-type setting, there was a current of fear running under the conversations about tree rings and sediment layers.
Indeed, they suggest it may be impossible to adopt the values of secret "England", without also recognising a current of fear and loathing that brings a whole series of "alien" destroyers streaming by.
We knew just nothing about its methods and machinery nor about its immensity of range and destruction". But even though sanguine views of the war's likely duration and intensity were at the beginning to the fore, beneath them ran a current of fear.
And now it is the knotty issue of immigration that has made him a local cause célèbre, thrust him into one of the nation's most contentious debates, jeopardized his future and sent a current of fear through the $550-billion-plus restaurant industry.
It's hard now to recall the atmosphere of the time, but there was both an overpowering force of conventional wisdom — all the Very Serious People were for war, don't you know, and if you were against you were by definition flaky — and a strong current of fear.
At a town hall meeting where hundreds turned out to talk about their anxiety, some said they worried that the standoff was bound to end badly and that a deep current of fear had overrun the town's better sensibilities.
National security: There is a current state of fear and anxiety for the future experienced by both sides, which is constantly fed by a deep sense of national insecurity.
There was that current of fear in the early songs of music, technology, animals, the air the stuff of an Asperger diagnosis, at least.
There was that current of fear in the early songs — of music, technology, animals, the air — the stuff of an Asperger diagnosis, at least.
