Sentence examples for contemporary fear from inspiring English sources
Zombies embody the great contemporary fear − and, for some people, the great contemporary fantasy − that we'll soon be surrounded by ravenous strangers, with only a shotgun to defend ourselves.
It wasn't just her being mad; this was a contemporary fear of the new technology.
Looking at the sweep of American history, Bergen placed the contemporary fear into a content of waves of anxiety about other demographic groups: freemasons, Catholics, Jews, to name a few.
From a contemporary fear learning perspective, victimization experiences may lead to a conditioned fear response to social and other stimuli associated with the victimization context (see 34).
Contemporary fears may find deep echoes in "The Oresteia" because it is, arguably, about civilization itself.
But it also reflects deeper contemporary fears of the apocalyptic and the macabre: of bad science and corrupt power.
That film, "X The Unknown," (1956) featured a radioactive blob from the center of the earth, a clever exploitation of contemporary fears of all things nuclear.
World War I also raised newer, more contemporary fears, chief among them that German U-boats might steal into the harbor and wreak havoc on the city.
It seems wholly remote from 21st-century Britain, even as its themes of coerced sex and utter amorality chime with contemporary fears.
The charges, now recognized to be without foundation, were calculated to stoke contemporary fears of heretics, witches, and demons and were similar to allegations Philip had used against Pope Boniface VIII.
