Sentence examples for mastery of fear from inspiring English sources

For Blanca these acts of thievery represent a mastery of fear, and we find ourselves applauding crimes that pave the way toward a much graver one.

Among the wiser observations of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson is that "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear".

For older children and pre-teenagers, an honest and clear presentation of both the facts and the uncertainties, together with reasoned reassurance, is a recommended path to the restoration of trust and the mastery of fear.

The three were at the core of the emergence of a different type of children's literature that included terror along with a mastery of fear; monsters that could horrify and be loved; loss and a world that, sometimes only modestly, sometimes thoroughly, could be tamed.

It's the mastery of fear".

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear".

According to the report, the benefits include: "risk assessment and mastery", "learning when feelings of fear indicates that behaviour is unsafe and learning to balance feelings of fear and excitement" as well as "a crucial sense of competence which forms a foundation for the development of healthy self-esteem, self-reliance and resilience in the face of life's stressors".

The cognitive component was designed to enhance participants' insight in their health complaints (eg movement may be painful, though harmless) and how to cope with these complaints, to enhance self-esteem and feelings of mastery, to reduce fear and avoidance of movement, and to improve social functioning by learning to think positively and increase social skills.

One reason for this is his mastery of the eerie: that form of fear that is felt first as unease, then as dread, and which is incited by glimpses and tremors rather than outright attack.

Put your mastery over your fear of failure into action.

But Al Gore is now the man the Republicans most fear, thanks to his wealth of experience, his lack of scruples and his mastery of the issues that most preoccupy the electorate, such as health care.