Sentences with phrase «abject fear»

The phrase "abject fear" means feeling extremely terrified or scared. Full definition
Every one of these kids lives in abject fear of the man, averting their eyes when he walks into the room.
Or, put another way, if teachers were generating high test score gains from their students by creating a climate of abject fear in their classrooms, their observation scores should be low and that information is useful.
We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white police department.
The give and take of film criticism has collapsed into the «democracy» of Likes and Tweets and blog posts and the genuine horror of Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore, and the situation for distributors has become one of undiluted abject fear.
Nestor looked at the Sergeant with abject fear.
Yet on returning to bed I was suddenly seized by blank terror; for perhaps ten minutes I trembled in abject fear.
He offers a clue: «But it may be that those who have experienced modern fundamentalism, with its paradoxical psychology and its confusion of assertion, rationalization, mystical love, and abject fear, can best understand Luther's mind and heart, and his quest for God.
Nobody is immune to the abject fear and terror that is leaving your baby with somebody else, and Reynolds Tweet sums it up perfectly, even if he didn't, as I suspect, actually drop her off at Burning Man.
The plain truth is this: the only thing that will make them stop behaving like curious, rambunctious chimpanzees and, instead, routinely perform mundane tasks over and over again on cue is abject fear of physical pain.
Some of the things they turned out to be hiding were psychological, like Renata's abject fear of failure.
did I ever feel the abject fear that Amnesia and other games like it (Fear for example), have given me.
I live in abject fear.
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