'threshold of fear' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the point beyond which fear has taken over. For example: When the situation became increasingly chaotic, it was clear that she had passed the threshold of fear.
Because of our daily interactions as black men, our thresholds of fear, for better or worse, usually rest higher on the scale than others, since we live with a daily cloud of threat over our heads on our home turf.
Banks have opposed the thresholds out of fear that examiners would treat them as absolute limits on lucrative real estate holdings.
This makes sense because, if an aversive US meets a certain threshold of intensity, developing fear and avoidance would seem to provide an unequivocal survival advantage.
Sociologists say there is a phenomenon of "threshold fear" taking place, whereby price or comfort barriers are preventing people from going inside.
In the present study, we were able to replicate findings from Kalisch et al. (2006a) of hippocampal and (at lower threshold) amygdalar activations during recall of fear memory.
And with inflation running well above the central bank's threshold of 2percentt, Mr. Trichet fears that labor unions in Germany and elsewhere will use higher prices to extract big pay raises.
"We're on the threshold of a new era, where fear ends and hope begins!" When I suggest that critics dismiss this as rainbows-and-unicorns rhetoric, he replies, a bit peevishly, "Oh, really?" before selecting a semi-relevant defense.
Nearly 60percentt of Mr. Sonnenschein's clientele never crosses the threshold of his store, partly because of fears about the neighborhood, but also because his work requires that he travel to his clients' homes.
We first established objective thresholds of the critical temporal parameters for overt and covert presentations of fear and disgust.
