Sentence examples for generalised fear from inspiring English sources

His Victorian strictness instilled in Said "a deep sense of generalised fear", which he spent most of his life trying to overcome.

But even generalised fear usually finds a target.

(GP36/M/7) [There is] a generalised fear of cancer … and what you want to do is try and put across that risk without making them too scared.

Overly ambitious conceptions of active ageing are problematic, as they may generate a form of 'new ageism', in which the generalised fear of ageing is replaced by fear of ageing with disability and in which dependent older adults suffer from discrimination (Angus and Reeve 2006).

There are more generalised fears about what will happen once whole swaths of London have been hollowed out below ground.

The fact that our reaction is much the same as to Bulgaria and Romania suggests that public attitudes are shaped more by generalised fears than by personal experience.

Stated differently, most studies focus on trait-like or generalised-context forms of communication apprehension the former being an enduring, global disposition of a person, the latter generalised fears with regard to certain communication settings (Gardner et al. 2005; McCroskey 2012).

Or it is a generalised, defensive fear: globalisation, say, or the arrival of Europe's single currency, are changing the economic landscape and making firms' lives more uncertain creating a strong incentive for the insecure to leap into bed with one another, the better to prevent their beds from being taken away altogether.

The scale provides a global anxiety rating together with scores on six individual subscales covering specific anxiety symptoms, namely separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic/agoraphobia, generalised anxiety, and, fears of physical injury.

When the feared generalised epidemic did not occur in the West, and with treatment becoming available from the mid 1990s, intellectuals called for an end to AIDS exceptionalism [ 8].

Already, Hanson's reappearance has led to generalised public "concern" in relation to Muslims, with Sonia Kruger's televised panic leading to peacemaking attempts by commentator Waleed Aly, for which he was criticised by other voices such as Mohamad Tabbaa and Claudia Maryam Sirdah for replacing criticism of the source of that fear.