Sentence examples for acutely fearful from inspiring English sources
"They need South Korean capital badly, but they are acutely fearful of its dangers".
"Everyone is acutely conscious and fearful of the prospect of a client being found unfit to plead and being subject to a custody order," Collins told the inquiry.
That makes intuitive sense: If you are more acutely sensitive to risks and more fearful of attack, you also may be more aggressive in arming yourself and more wary of foreigners.
We previously reported that administration of cortisol acutely reduced non-spatial selective attention to fearful faces and likewise reduced preferential processing of fearful faces in a spatial working memory task.
She was Jean Rhys's publisher, of course; it's interesting that she responded so acutely to Rhys's quite opposite personality – fatalistic and fearful, drowning in doubt.
Set against the background of the Bush/Kerry election, Exit Ghost (Cape, October) is a portrait of the artist as an old man, drawn back to New York after years of writerly seclusion and encountering a new generation of talent; mortified by the body, acutely feeling the loss of his physical powers, and fearful of losing his creative ones.
At every age she is acutely aware of being observed, first by her grandmother (and in her fearful imagination by the corpse of her grandfather), and later by men whose predatory gaze she subtly courts as an adolescent, but as a woman grows to fear.
When they are acutely stressed, the adrenal cortex produces a flood of cortisol, a hormone that can make them overly fearful and risk-averse.Mr Coates says he was drawn to study these biochemical processes because he wanted to understand the "unbelievably powerful emotions" that make traders "go crazy".
