Sentence examples for terror of failure from inspiring English sources

I felt like being in New York was exacerbating all the things I didn't like about myself: the petty competitiveness, the anger, the terror of failure.

They were driven by the rivalry of siblings, the fragile pride of adolescence, the terror of failure in an unforgiving city.

(The Spartak forward Roman Pavlyuchenko has said that Guus Hiddink's key achievement as Russia coach has been to relax the players so they travel to games without being haunted by the terror of failure).

It's the overidentification, combined with the unreasonable standards mentioned explicitly in symptom number one and implicit in most of the other symptoms, that creates the perfectionist's terror of failure.

So terror and fear of failure were his engine.

Within the billowing gothic excess of this madly-plotted tale of a fatal bargain with evil powers is a novel of great psychological acuity that explores the terrors of loneliness, failure and madness in ways that make it seem peculiarly contemporary.

According to Trible, texts of terror illustrate the failure of systems of power to prevent violence against women or to provide victims of violence with justice.

Perhaps, once an artist has enjoyed the kind of colossal success that Perry has seen, she becomes justly worried about any sort of defeat or regression, but terror at the prospect of failure is toxic for art.

Finally, I should have followed my instincts and quit my job before it quit me -- but I was hampered by an exaggerated terror of being labeled a failure.

In another official admission of failure in combating terror, the national police chief, Da'i Bachtiar, said he was sorry that the authorities had not prevented the blast.

What Barnes calls for is more precise cooking instructions, not so that he may be seen to be right, but so that he may be spared the terror of doubt and the indignity of failure.