Sentence examples for ordinary fear from inspiring English sources

Not just ordinary fear: fear of winter, fear of sickness, fear of starving.

Some of the band's members joined his newer venture, Russell Crowe & the Ordinary Fear of God.

(Crowe has sung with the band The Ordinary Fear of God).

They are too young to remember how ordinary fear was during the war.

He's no belter, but at least his band, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God, plays more to his range.

For animals so large, the apes were relaxing on what appeared to me to be alarmingly slender branches, but they seemed eerily content in their perches, and I thought for a moment of trapeze artists in the circus who are immune to ordinary fear.

It is no wonder that during my visit I began to feel as if all the ordinary fears of the world had multiplied.

It's also an umbrella term for the comfort that comes with the ability to bend much of your immediate world to your will, freedom from most ordinary fears and problems.

He knows that as he dies he will hear "a voice cruel and flat / Saying for ever, 'Cat!... Cat!... Cat!'" The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Liberated yet tormented Anna Wulf records her ordinary fears in a blue notebook.

The latter view is taken by the British Classicist Geoffrey S. Kirk, who in Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (1970) uses the term myth to denote stories with an underlying purpose beyond that of simple story-telling and the term folktale to denote stories that reflect simple social situations and play on ordinary fears and desires.

By linking motherhood's most ordinary fears to this cartoon horror, Shriver exploits parents' very worst thoughts - that somehow, despite their best efforts, their offspring will turn out to be sociopathic - while undermining them with the implication that really, raising a mass murderer is just one of those things, much like mastitis.