What convinces in "High Noon" is the film's sense of social malaise, of a community drained of coherence and conviction in the face of overwhelming fear — certainly a plausible portrait of a country in which, according to a Gallup poll in September 1951, about half the respondents believed that the Korean conflict represented the beginning of an atomically charged World War III.
For me, it was experiencing states of overwhelming fear.
Panic attacks are one-time occurrences of feeling a sudden surge of overwhelming fear and anxiety.
"I never will have those kind of overwhelming fears again," he said.
In "Dreams From My Father," Obama wrote of how shaken he was when he learned of her overwhelming fear of black men on the street.
Until Hondurans are relieved of their overwhelming fear of how they will manage to feed, house and clothe themselves and their families another day or another week, there will be no end to corruption in Honduras.
Nevertheless, the concept of religious democracy has not been allowed to reach fruition in the Islamic world, partly because of foreign interference, partly because of religious fanaticism, but mostly because of the West's overwhelming fear of Islamic government.
A report released after the high court decision, based on interviews by paediatricians of asylum seekers with children inside Wickham Point and Christmas Island detention centres, found children suffered mental trauma, including instances of attempted suicide and an overwhelming fear of being returned to Nauru.
Boswell never conquered his ample faculty of self-deception, not least when it came to matters of the heart and libido, nor his overwhelming fear of God – or, perhaps more accurately, of death: what Boswell sought from religion was not so much a guide to living but a form of reassurance against the possibility of oblivion.
Dr. Burkes submitted a letter from his psychiatrist, who said that Dr. Burkes's attention-deficit condition "interferes with his ability to organize and categorize information prior to thinking about it," and that he was in a state of "confusion, perplexity and overwhelming fear" the day of the guilty plea.
A series of interviews conducted by paediatricians with asylum seekers inside Wickham Point and Christmas Island detention centres paints a bleak picture of mental trauma suffered by children in detention, and an overwhelming fear of being returned to Nauru.
