If panic signals such as shallow breathing, a racing heart, or curling toes keep flashing despite logic, then the threat becomes irreducible and seems real.
My head that is currently doing all it can to not send panic signals to my fingers and thumbs and not get crowded to my death by all these harpie things.
Before the game, Girardi confronted suggestions that his abrupt decisions regarding his pitchers might signal panic to his clubhouse and beyond.
But such a panic, which might signal an end to the decline, may not set in "for months or even years," he said.
In any other country, this might signal panic on the streets, but France believes it is battling bigger economic problems: spiralling public debt, stagnant growth, low business morale and high unemployment.
Single men will be a part of the "panic dating" peaks signalled by various dating websites around Valentine's Day.
But it might have signaled panic.
The dismissal this week of two senior producers of "Heroes" was just another signal of panic setting in.
At one point on Friday, Italian bonds were trading at more than 400 basis points higher than Germany's, a signal of panic.
Breathe deeply through your nose and out through your mouth; shallow breaths through the mouth are a signal of panic.
