Sentence examples for disproportionate fear from inspiring English sources

But they're all symptoms of an irrational, disproportionate fear: a phobia.

There is often a disproportionate fear of crime relative to its real occurrence.

Specifically, "the disproportionate fear of the killer on the road reveals cultural misgivings about highways and the values they represent".

Moreover, I have never quite understood why there is among us such disproportionate fear of fat and dairy.

Another effect of this disproportionate fear is to direct attention to the risks we're most afraid of and away from those that actually pose the greatest threat.

Snotty noses and small coughs had never before held such power and disproportionate fear.

Before yesterday, experts in risk assessment considered airplane crashes the great American boogeyman: a minuscule danger that generated wildly disproportionate fears because it was so unusual and so sensational.

He warns that taboos against printing money and disproportionate fears of fiscal deficits are keeping central banks from taking crucial measures to stimulate economies.

14 More informed decision making can also alleviate, perhaps disproportionate, fears for those patients who may not want treatment.

"Delays in Athens Raise Concern on Olympic Security Readiness" (front page, July 3) raises a disproportionate level of fear and anxiety through some implausible terrorist plots suggested by unidentified foreign intelligence officials.

The townships are scary; though the danger was exaggerated by the apartheid government, and though many whites have a fear disproportionate to the reality, township violence is unpredictable and people do get killed.