Sentence examples for phobia toward from inspiring English sources
Seeking to capture the sensation of courage in real time, Yadin Dudai, a neurobiologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues scanned the brains of people with a known phobia toward snakes as they were confronted with a live, large, harmless but indubitably serpentine corn snake.
In his classic 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", Richard Hofstadter did the nation a great service by analyzing our tendency toward phobia and panic, but I was thinking of another writer when I arrived in Louisville, a native son of the city, lifelong member of the NRA, and author of such latter-day classics as Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
It was, Haberman wrote, Hillary's "first step toward moving past her phobia of the state that helped shatter her 2008 presidential hopes".
There were other factors that fed Allen's phobic inclinations as well: a hereditary predisposition toward phobias; a childhood desire to emulate his father (who suffered from an array of phobias, including a distaste for airplanes, bridges and elevators); and a tendency to internalize his overprotective mother's warnings about the perils of the world.
With panic attacks, there are many theories: You might start off with a strong tendency toward phobias.
Can't a phobia just be a phobia?
In the modern world, a phobia is a phobia.
