Sentence examples for unreasoning fear from inspiring English sources
In World War II, unreasoning fear led to the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Their motives vary: deep-seated bigotry, unreasoning fear, spinelessness, opportunism, or some unholy mix of them all.
An excessive, unreasoning fear of water, for example, may be based on a forgotten childhood experience of almost drowning.
Without blinding, unreasoning fear, the US probably would not have looked to a counterfeit Big Daddy figure for protection.
Many current and former government officials say the reactors are in Al Qaeda's cross hairs, but inside the industry, many executives counter that what drives the issue is politics and unreasoning fear.
At a time when paranoid delusions were driving the US into a catastrophic war, Ali saw it for the fraud it was; his was a mind free of unreasoning fear, which isn't to say he had little to fear.
Franklin Roosevelt famously said on taking office in 1933, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Most of us have unreasoning fears which creep unwanted into the mind, and bring a shudder; mine are about overwhelming torrents of muddy water, at seeing and hearing a towering wall of water bearing down on me; something moving so fast that there is no chance of escape.
As the London-based psychoanalyst Edward Glover stated in a BBC radio broadcast: … the whole atmosphere of modern war is likely to revive those unreasoning fears that the human race has inherited from its remotest ancestors; gas masks that make us look like strange animals; underground shelters; … enemies overhead and unseen; wailing sirens; screaming air bombs.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself: nameless, unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyses needed effort to convert retreat into advance," he intoned.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless unreasoning unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said at his first inauguration, in the depths of the Depression in 1933, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
