Sentence examples for fears like a from inspiring English sources

They catch you with a piece and you're in for some most un-amicable consequences, the sort of consequences a gringo fears like a Brit fears an orthodontist.

Our mind has a voice recorder that plays back every negative word that every person has said to us, preying on our fears like a sliver we can't remove.

However, one can have a feeling of the mysterium that is not fear-like; a feeling not of tremor, but of stupor.

By the therapeutic end last night, the Knicks had boldly faced their fears like an acrophobe taking a plunge with a parachute.

All he remembered was the fear, like a distant echo from a sound long forgotten.

Although someone may have told them she'll smell fear like a piranha smells blood.

He was still a figure who engendered awe and respect and even fear, like a Shakespearean king fading after a hard and brutal reign.

In this sense, virtually every recession in the last 40 years coincided with a signal of fear, like a significant drop in consumer confidence.

I think more than anything else I travel to sharpen my wits against fear; like a martial artist I need to keep my form.

Chagrined, but not nonplused, "I took off my sailor hat, ripped my veil off and tied it under my chin, looking rather, I fear, like a Bulgarian refugee".

Some of us meet our fears in dreams, others in therapy, or by shutting our eyes and praying that they won't come true; whereas Haneke, in Binoche's words, "is working with fear, like a brush".