Sentence examples for paralyzing terror from inspiring English sources

There is a fifth, unseen character, Joe's wife and Abigayle's mother, who remains in her bedroom with an illness doctors have been unable to diagnose but is probably just that paralyzing terror of life that pervades the play.

The new director was Daniel Mann, who fixed the staging but failed to recognize Dean's paralyzing terror.

But overcoming the sheer paralyzing terror after you've been hit hard, not quitting and coming back with whatever you have, remaining calm enough to observe what's happening and doing your best until the bell rings, in that three minute eternity, lies a prize we lose at our own peril.

I knew I needed to buckle the strap, but my joy had turned to paralyzing terror.

Governments must paralyze the terror and not suspend the flights.

Instead, she stands paralyzed with terror, breathing heavily in a semitransparent shift, sexualized and objectified, until he resolves his internal argument with a beating rather than a rape.

But psychologists and mental health workers here describe a population that has become paralyzed by the terror of the last red alert and the dread of the next one.

The Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma tells us about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): "in many cases, traumatic incidents... leave lasting symptoms of paralyzing anxiety, grief, and hopelessness, as well as flashbacks, night terrors, and intrusive memories.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless unreasoning unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said at his first inauguration, in the depths of the Depression in 1933, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".

It was the depths of the Depression, and he told his listeners, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".