Sentence examples for overcome by panic from inspiring English sources

Remember the last time you were sweaty-palmed, short of breath, and about to be utterly overcome by panic?

If they come to meditate on how to change the situation of the country, they are overcome by panic at the threatening finger of the omnipresent State, the insults, the revolutionary intolerance that allows no criticism, no suggestions.

That seems to be the suspicion of Courbet's Desperate Man, who stares into a mirror with frightened, bulbous eyes as his hands rake through his hair; overcome by existential panic, he is "checking he is still there and not just a figment or a fragment".

The artist, however, recalls being overcome by fear and panic before directing Knightley.

Someone can get a scorpion bite or a snake bite, or twist an ankle, or be overcome by heat, or simply panic.

There were tales of panic and anxiety yesterday; firefighters overcome by acrid smoke, people trapped for hours in World Trade Center elevators.

But never fear, or panic, or let yourself be overcome by nerves.

Instead, I was overcome by sweeping generalities.

He drank his when overcome by emotion".

Then she paused, momentarily overcome by emotion.

Somewhat astonished, I was overcome by curiosity.