Sentence examples for phobia of the from inspiring English sources

She had a fascination for deserts and a phobia of the sea.

Real cooperation should help us get rid of the nightmares and phobia of the Cold War.

But – seriously – the guy must have a phobia of the gain line such is his distaste of approaching it.

The gender reversal could start to overturn a societal phobia of the idea that, yes, women can actually do sports as well.

It was, Haberman wrote, Hillary's "first step toward moving past her phobia of the state that helped shatter her 2008 presidential hopes".

But more than that, as the futurist Jason Silva suggests, it is almost a phobia of the impending passing of the present.

With the commitment phobia of those who showed an interest in hosting events, maybe we just were going about it backwards.

It seems clear that, but for the "tax phobia" of Congress and the Administration, the amount owed for non-compliance with the mandate would have been called a tax.

At well over two thousand pages, Norman Sherry's authorized biography of Graham Greene, a writer whose slender novels are distinguished by a near-phobia of the extraneous, occasionally seems in danger of reaching a similar condition.

It's become an unbearable place to be, as the anti-American feelings in light of the Iraq war have mingled with antisemitism to a point where they are indistinguishable, the new phobias of the First World.

Unlike the intellectually radiant Arseniy Yatsenyuk (leader of the Tymoshenko bloc), he is not tarred by failures in power; unlike Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Freedom Party (Svoboda), he does not arouse the phobias of the Russian-speaking east and south.