Sentence examples for fits of terror from inspiring English sources
For a similar reason bursts of anger or fits of terror, when once they have excited such motions, are not at once allayed, even though the angry or terrified persons (by efforts of will) set up counter motions, but the passions continue to move them on, in the same direction as at first, in opposition to such counter motions.
She wrote: "I was nervous, highly strung, paranoid, prone to fits of terror and rage; I ate greedily or didn't eat at all; I fled from society". Her comparison is interesting – 19th-century falconers saw these magnificent birds as hysterical women who needed to be tamed.
See, it's not just heights or enclosed spaces or spiders (or clowns) that send people into fits of terror, but also those more nuanced aspects of everyday life that rear up when we least expect it.
Including his "Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X," the various works depict the Bishop of Rome sitting atop his papal throne with his mouth agape, seemingly writhing in a fit of terror while he remains obscured from view by swathes of paint streaking down the canvas.
In a fit of prenuptial terror, Mimsey has locked herself in the bathroom of the Plaza Hotel, and her resistance to her parents' pleading, threatening and bellowing is remarkably durable.
However, the fact that there were three people in the vehicle did not seem to fit the pattern of terror attacks, some netizens said.
That may have died with Page". In the public debate over the rise of hate groups in the U.S. and the search for signs of neo-Nazi plots, analysts say Page's one-man campaign of terror fits solidly into an established tradition of "lone wolf" violence that has countless precedents on the fringes of racist American thought.
Markman says the overwhelming charitable response to disasters, like the one in Las Vegas, fits well with the psychological theory of terror management, which has been gaining acceptance for some two decades.
"Until the courts give sentences that fit the crime, men like Justin Lee Collins will get away with campaigns of terror and thousands of women, like Anna, will continue to be at risk".
