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Americans are not so much unusually litigious as unusually fearful , and this fearfulness extends to the prospect of lawsuits.
1. fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions 2. fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities The word timidity has appeared in 56 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 23 in "The Toys Are Gone, but It's Still Home" by Constance Rosenblum: Despite the lure of childhood homes, the attraction sometimes wears thin.
Thus it seems implausible to claim the music's fearfulness resides in its arousal of fear in us.
Rumours are rife: that banks cannot pledge collateral at central banks, that hedge funds are pulling their money from prime brokers.Name the yearWill the fearfulness of 2011 turn into another panic like 2008?
And to lift the mood further, she has seeded the sometimes grim displays of surgical and survivalist paraphernalia with ironic pieces of offbeat design and conceptual art, including furniture you can hide in, an armoured duvet and razor-wire cut in the shape of butterflies and fish.You would need an exaggerated degree of fearfulness to see a place for all of these things in your life.
These problems tend to fall into two groups: those characterized by symptoms of extreme anxiety, withdrawal, and fearfulness , on the one hand, and by disobedience, aggression, and destruction of property on the other.
Such books confront our deepest fears of being lost, hungry or in mortal danger, and they reinforce a child's inner ability to cope with this fearfulness and to discover where true strength lies.
It was unforgettable; all the pictures of hell that were ever painted fall short of it in fearfulness , and its hungry roar, mingled with snarls and hisses and the crash of the falling ruins, was most awe-inspiring.
The fringe meetings were dull, a soporific fearfulness hovering over them.
For instance, James Holmes, who shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 as they watched The Dark Knight Rises in a cinema in Colorado in July, had sent a text to a friend two weeks earlier suggesting he might be suffering from a form of bipolar disorder, the symptoms of which include manic energy, rage, fearfulness and paranoid delusions.
The second — and less understood — has to do with what Bebout calls "adapted fearfulness".
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The primary grammatical function of "fearfulness " is that of a noun , denoting the state or quality of being fearful. As Ludwig AI shows, it describes a general condition or tendency, rather than a specific instance of fear. For example, it can refer to an atmosphere of "fearfulness".
Expression frequency: Very common
