Ghost stories usually succeed best in a compact ten or fifteen pages, designed artfully to climax in a moment when all of one's least plausible fears are — impossibly, yet undeniably — realized.
However, it is plausible that fear of abuse may constrain the ability of economically disadvantaged women to effectively negotiate or use contraception [ 77].
The political element that scared Columbia away — until after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which turned the movie's paranoid pretext all too plausible — is the fear of nuclear war and the breeding of a group of children who, having been exposed to radiation, are immune to it.
It would seem plausible that a fear network underlying PTSD had been formed during war experiences and was largely inhibited during exile [ 22, 56].
For all that Renner has written on Maura Murray's case, both in his book and online, I've never seen him seriously investigate the most plausible theory: that, fearing a D.U.I. arrest, Murray walked away from her car in the New Hampshire cold, got lost, and died.
There's a belief by the shooters – and a wider acceptance – that, because the people that they supposedly feared were black, that their fear is plausible … even reasonable.
Or does it somehow just tarnish the institution by association — in which case I think you have a plausible argument that the fear of harm is based on prejudice towards gays and lesbians — the legally (and morally) problematic "irrational animus".
"If the United States of America has reasons to adopt the measures that have been questioned by the prosecutor's office," the judge wrote, "Brazil, with no plausible motive since the fear of terrorist attacks happily is not part of national life, cannot do the same solely on the basis of reciprocity, because that would cause millions of dollars of damage to the national economy".
What does seem plausible, however, is that fear of the other in this case, radicalized Muslim immigrants might, perversely, be the grease that forces a handful of swing votes in Congress to embrace gun control.
