Sentence examples for fear of mirrors from inspiring English sources

Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.

In one memorably bonkers episode, Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet guest stars as Derrick, a nebbish everyman who seeks out therapist Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott), to help deal with an irrational fear of mirrors stemming from a childhood ghost story about the Piggy Man, a Chicago butcher who was eaten alive by his own hogs.

He was in a hall of mirrors of fear.

He is afraid of thinking about being afraid, lest he suddenly become afraid and break out in a sweat — the victim of "an endless funhouse hall of mirrors of fear".

In raw symbolic terms, the dollar has long been a proxy for American power, economic and otherwise, so the popular interest in its troubles simply mirrors fear of rising economic rivals like China.

It would be a mistake to replace an exaggerated fear of Islam with a mirror image fear of the far right.

This is difficult to interpret but perhaps here lower falls efficacy may be mirroring fear of falling, which is reported by 20-85% of community-dwelling non-fallers [ 54].

In a dark parlor, Shonibare also made her into a ghost, haunting a mirror, and I will refrain from any description of the mirror, for fear of spoiling it — you have to see it, hurry.

They may hope, mirroring the fear of Bauer et al., for "another Souter".

I won't even take off my shirt in my own house for fear of seeing myself in the mirror.

Currently rightwing politicians have been tremendously good at mirroring voters' fear of change right back at them, and the left has been much better at rationally dissecting the way forward, but nobody is particularly excelling at doing both.