He said the Bush administration had fostered a climate of fear "to distort America's priorities abroad and stifle dissent at home".
And I know fear of it distorts public judgment.
They loudly expressed their fears about imported gender theories creeping into the French education system and the risk of distorting sexual orientations at nursery school.
Anthony Albanese is accused of "distorting reality".
(Isherwood) 'THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR' Henry Adam's play starts out as a humorous, trenchant fable on how fear of terrorism can distort individual lives, not to say nations, but something mysterious happens after intermission: it mutates into a sitcom.
Joking aside, what's especially laudable is the dimensionality writer Paul Roundell distributes among the characters and the convincing way it shows how violence and fear ultimately distort the morality of even essentially good people.
And last month, United Airlines began to force a small number of travel agencies to absorb credit card fees of 2percentto3percentcent for ticket bookings, a trend that agents fear may distort ticket economics if other large carriers follow suit.
Our enemies, we do not fear them any more than we respect them – but we must fear the feelings they might inspire in us: the feeling of fear that distorts, the anger that disfigures and the doubt that divides.
Eraserhead is the clearest articulation of that fear of the city, a grotesque image of lives distorted by a towering industrial hellscape that utterly subsumes its inhabitants.
Unrealistic fear of germs, or undue complacency about genuine risks, can distort public policy and threaten the public's health.
