The student rowers are caught in the middle, fearing that something they have grown to love is in imminent danger of being lost.
For the people caught in the middle, the fear is undeniable.
They represent how I think things through, in the middle of fear, finding something to hold on to--a person, and ideal, a detail--anything that gives me some kind of hope.
In both countries, middle-class fear of instability seems to have trumped democratic impulses.
Widespread social discontent, aggravated by middle-class fear of a socialist revolution and by disappointment over Italy's meagre gains from the peace settlement after World War I, created an atmosphere favourable for Mussolini's rise to power.
With engaging lyrics and imagery that spoke to the middle-class fear of the urban poor, the song effectively elevated the album to best-seller status and propelled the brothers to celebrity.
Melissa Benn has identified "an age-old middle-class fear of the underclass... a pretty simple kind of snobbery that uses education as a way of keeping one's children separate from most ordinary children".
Individually, their representations of characters coping with a late-middle-age fear that life is unsatisfyingly slipping away are persuasively singular, and together they create an atmosphere in the tiny apartment that is genuinely dynamic.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, politicians made hay over the middle-class fear that social programs, especially for the poor, were eating into their standard of living.
Her anger at how things went so wrong does not come from some middle-class fear of the impoverished Haitian masses, but from a deep sense of betrayal by Mr. Aristide.
