When a state uses fear to silence subjects, their talking about that fear — articulating its existence, identifying its sources, describing its workings — is itself a form of defiance and an assertion of the will to be free.
Reagan had to undo some of his tax cuts precisely because revenue fell too much — and by the mid-1980s there were legitimate fears, articulated by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul A. Volcker, and Senator Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, among others, that the budget deficit would spin out of control.
The fears articulated by the museum's advisory council are serious.
Fear is commonly articulated as fear of unbearable pain, fear for their own and their infant's safety and fear of obstetric injuries [ 47].
A strange mix of self-defeating paranoias is involved, a vaguely articulated fear that "the government" will take over along with the notion that "the mob" will soon be at the door.
This is because consumption affords a key site in which class-related aspirations, anxieties and fears are simultaneously articulated and addressed.
All the fears that were articulated have been dispelled.
In conversation with CNN's Fareed Zakaria at the New York Public Library during the recent award ceremony, Taylor articulated a fear on many minds these days: "The present danger of our global political environment is that we do something irreparable".
But he also articulated greater fears: "The next few weeks are going to be very important and on that score the very survival of the football club is at stake".
His words on influence and finances may be ironic, but there can be no doubt that in arguing about the impact of online competitors he articulated the fears of many in the newspaper industry who had started to see print circulations plummet and digital revenues fail to keep up.
A rural English teacher, Nurul Amin, articulated his fears: If speaking and listening tests are included in the S.S.C examination and teachers are given power to award marks, then in most cases teachers will abuse it.
