Sentence examples for phobias of from inspiring English sources

The writer is not overly sympathetic of the phobias of others.

The New Yorker, October 21 , 1961P. 49 The writer is not overly sympathetic of the phobias of others.

While no two aviophobics are the same, fear tends to coalesce around phobias of distance – vertigo and agoraphobia – and constriction – claustrophobia, and concerns about an inability to escape.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV – psychiatry's glossary of mental disorders – lists phobias of varying kinds, as well as other common conditions such as anxiety and depression.

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.

And then came a time in his life, coinciding with a long convalescence after pneumonia, when those little phobias of his, which his parents had stubbornly regarded as the eccentricities of a prodigiously gifted child, hardened, as it were, into a dense tangle of logically interacting illusions, making them totally inaccessible to normal minds.

In serious cases, Venezuelans suffer all manner of phobias, often of public places where violence can erupt.

Luckily, I've got a phobia of needles".

He had a phobia of associating himself with predation.

Jan admits to a phobia of deep water.

My friend has a phobia of stuffed animals.