Sentence examples for fear of confronting from inspiring English sources

"For me, it was just a fear of confronting other human beings," he said.

They say key politicians are hamstrung by fear of confronting such groups as they gear up for elections.

It is time that we stop letting our fear of confronting agony determine our attitudes and our policies.

These four British Muslims have lost their fear of confronting their extremist co-religionists who claim their interpretation of Islam is mainstream Islam.

But it is difficult for Middle Easterners to resist the idea that this refusal to implicate Saddam Hussein is due less to a concern for legality than to a fear of confronting him.

As the title makes obvious, the Philharmonic is emulating the glitzy rites of the contemporary-art world, which has no fear of confronting its public with novelties and extremes.

I'm Passive-Aggressive" (Nov. 16): The "hostile cooperation" that Dr. Lorna Benjamin characterizes as the core of passive-aggression is but one maladaptive solution to fears of confronting conflict.

Almost without exception, Americans have had deep fears of confronting one particular truth about George W. Bush, and that is his sadism.

Then as now, a major war and fear of persecution confronted an entire region with unprecedented flows of migration.

And although the crowd's behaviour has been good, there's always the fear of being confronted by angry individuals.

It's silly, but I think the fear of being confronted or discovered by being in theater scared me away from trying somewhat.