While commitment fear is no doubt a very real factor in some people's inability to find a new home, your article on that subject ("Fear of Committing?" July 31) was written entirely from the real estate broker's point of view -- and the broker, of course, has a vested interest in portraying the nonbuyer's "obsessional personality".
As Moore strolls on he lets his imagination stroll too – thinking aloud about the crimes someone in his position might now commit without fear of detection.
The vision to restore civility in our political discourse will continue to spread as more people share their perspectives on the world and those committed to sanity continue to step up against those committed to fear.
Given the conviction of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four for crimes they had not committed, this fear was far from groundless.
But the central characters ��� a computer scientist named Elliot Karl Millerr) and a molecular biologist named Molly (Aubrey Dollar) — are just as loquacious on the subject of their emotional problems: his inability to commit, her fears about not being able to close the door on the past.
Clandestine, organized, fueled by race-based hostility, and committed to fear and violence as a means of disciplining their own members and their rivals, gangs seek nothing less than to control prison life and to extend their power outside prison walls.
The act was committed without fear and trembling, without the dramas of temptation or fascination of the forbidden, in fact without any real motivation at all.
This is difficult to learn because it means we must simultaneously acknowledge the emotions we feel after a crime is committed ― fear, anger, shock ― but not base a judicial system on those emotions.
In the summer some teenagers commit suicide, their fear of death not as strong as their fear of not making the grade in this world.
Both Mr. Bagani and Mr. Vitthal said that general lawlessness in the country, which allows people to commit crimes without fear of punishment, played a part.
