Sentence examples for disabling fear from inspiring English sources
But Truant himself is an unlikeable, feckless character: he continually interrupts the text to harangue us about his mad mother, his cloying love for a stripper called Thumper, and, since he began work on Zampanò's papers, his increasing, disabling fear - all in such a raggedly purple style that he quickly becomes very annoying.
The W-DEQ proved to be a useful diagnostic test for disabling fear of childbirth in Swedish late pregnant women (sensitivity 91%, specificity 96%) [ 37].
Applying this spirit has three practical dimensions that are critical for defining this third approach and separating it from both rampant optimism and disabling fear.
He's been a powerful figure in my life, the remedy to a disabling fear that stole upon me unexpected one day.
We can only guess, until the shattering and genuinely surprising ending, about Mrs. Gray's motivations in seducing a child, and why she seems so careless of exposure — the disabling fear of so many of Banville's antiheroes in his previous novels, especially memorable in the case of the art historian turned spy in "The Untouchable".
That would seem to be a step backwards, away from freedom and democracy, and towards perpetual, potentially disabling fear.
Jaspal Dhani, chief executive of the United Kingdom Disabled People's Council – one of the coordinators of the protest– said cuts meant disabled people feared losing rights that they had fought for decades to acquire.
But for about 3 percent of people with the condition, it is extremely disabling, causing intense distress, fear and anxiety, and leaving them unable to function.
Current fear-anxiety-avoidance models of chronic pain emphasize pain-related fear and anxiety as potential precursors for disabling chronic pain; however, anxiety and fear are often used interchangeably when discussing pain.
Fear and sorrow controlled by reason serve several different ends, but excessive fear or sorrow can be disabling.
The "nothing" of Barnes's title is death, the thought of which produces an emotion, fear – fear so intense, so pervasive, as to be at times disabling.
