Sentence examples for phantom fear from inspiring English sources

Our local news programs broadcast murders, rapes and robberies from poor African-American neighborhoods, causing a phantom fear of black communities nationwide; then the media expose their ridiculous hypersensitivity, as in the controversy over remarks made by Rush Limbaugh about the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.

As a compendium of ageless error, of phantom fears and ghostlier reassurances, it probably has no equal.

Whether these are phantom fears or grounded in reality, they are fuelling a siege mentality at the heart of Russian power - one which is dictating Kremlin policy on Ukraine and on the West.

"When the people find out that they can get their money — that they can get it when they want it — the phantom of fear will soon be laid," he soothed an anxious nation.

Let the market continue unimpeded rather than chase phantom consumer fears through unnecessary regulation.

Therefore, it is time investors stop fighting phantom deflation fears and prepare their portfolios for the real upcoming battle, which will be with intractable inflation.

She especially remembers the constant ringing of her beeper, so much so that when she first left political life, she suffered from what she described as "phantom beeper" — the fear that her beeper was still going off when she no longer had one.

The real lesson of Y2K is not irrational fear or phantom risk.

Playwright Arthur Miller criticized the anti-communist hype of McCarthyism in The Crucible, showing that orchestrated fear about phantom threats in order to benefit a select group of people reaches back to America's Puritan past.

We are nevertheless told to fear the phantom hands and dicks of strangers because it's easier than explaining that, more often than not, the most insidious characters lie right under our noses.

I was tempted to eat the $100 marker I'd placed down only 72 hours earlier and move the combo birthday party back to our house, our backyard, our playroom and our kitchen... where it belongs, where kids can be kids without rules and a fear of phantom germs.