Sentence examples for irrational terror from inspiring English sources

The Western Australian shark cull is likely to have been strongly influenced by an irrational terror of sharks - inculcated by shows of this kind.

As it is, I am condemned to a night of irrational terror, made even more appalling by driving rain, thunder and lightning.

In 2014, the Military Club published the names of 126 Brazilians, including soldiers and police, it said were killed by "irrational terror" in the 1960s and 1970s and ignored by the Truth Commission.

The annual annoyances of flu season mutate into the irrational terror that that man on the subway looks like he broke into a sweat, and he's leaning your way, and what if the soap at work isn't strong enough?

In the body of the text, Nazism virtually drops out (it was, he says, a system of "irrational terror"—not at all what interested Camus), sharply narrowing the inquiry.

Nothing wrong with that — irrational terrors beset another writer, and his long-suffering family, in "The Shining".

What makes "Repulsion" so important — it's the "Birth of a Nation" of spooky-girl movies — is its unexpected empathy with its protagonist's insanity, Mr. Polanski's willingness to share her most irrational terrors, her deadliest delusions.

I empower my Cheerios to live in a state of constant fear by creating an environment of irrational, random terror," Sylvester says.

A fear of watching this tiny child I carried worry and fret with terror over some irrational, unfounded cause.

It explains why even those politicians who puffed at a joint or two in their youth hesitate to put the case for legalising drugs.The terror is not irrational.

If that sounds silly, well it is: all the best horror locates terror in the irrational places where adults are no longer supposed to cultivate it.