Sentences with phrase «exaggerated fears of»

As we reported recently, a new report by a British Parliament committee likewise noted that people are getting tired of being bombarded with exaggerated fears of global environmental catastrophes that turn out to be false alarms.

He does try to make some place for teaching about religion as against the exaggerated fears of administrators and teachers, but it is a small place.

By enshrining zero percent inflation as the ideal, both of them reflect an exaggerated fear of even moderate inflation that is not supported by the preponderance of evidence.

To be sure, the sources and manifestations of violence are complex But what do we make of competitiveness, the cult of winning, the armoring of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination with it?

None wants a return to exaggerated fear of death or preoccupation with sin, guilt and judgment.

Fever phobia, an exaggerated fear of fever, is still common among parents, even though pediatricians have been trying to combat it for more than 30 years.

«The problem identified by the government's own reviews is not the law, but a rather exaggerated fear of being sued, fed by aggressive marketing.»

(Explaining his unnatural, exaggerated fear of global warming?)

Dental phobia is a fear, or phobia, traditionally defined as an irrational and exaggerated fear of dentists and dental procedures.

Initiate sex talk «In loving couples, there's often an exaggerated fear of hurting the other's feelings if you say, «I've never liked that position,»» says Tiefer.

Not exact matches

The agents, risk managers, and small - business consultants Inc. spoke with warned that insurance purchases can be driven by exaggerated fears, particularly of litigation.

According to Galinsky, the fear of alienating your opposite is «typically exaggerated» — that is, so long as the offer is defensible and not outlandish.

Today we better understand the exaggerated fears that sparked the paroxysm of state violence that was the Great Terror.

As for the renter's fear of losing out financially, that too is exaggerated.

Their fears are utterly unfounded in reality and at times exaggerated paranoia and it reflects a belief that everyone has it in for them.Symptoms of persecution complex may be seen when the person interacts in normal ways and then over-reacts to perceived wrongs.)

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

seem to be some tilting of the scales on the side of those who think that fears have been exaggerated), the burden of proof must be on those who want to stop the research.

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

Since homebirth rates are as low as 1.2 % in our country, and in the State of Indiana no higher than 6 %, I suspect his statistics are exaggerated by his own fabricated fear of birth.

The preschool and early elementary school years are sometimes marred with exaggerated fears, odd anxieties, nightmares, night terrors, and other evidences of insecurity that can make the most confident of parents feel a combination of dismay, frustration, worry, and failure.

Most of these have focused on accusing the «In» campaign of being too «negative» and of pushing unfounded and exaggerated «fears» about Brexit.

The home secretary said he hoped to find a middle way between heightening awareness of the terrorist risk and causing exaggerated public fears about the nature of the threat.

On the other hand, the National government won with a majority of nearly 250 seats; Baldwin's fears of defeat seem somewhat exaggerated.

I'd grade her statement as exaggerated for sure, and playing on the fear of others, but there's still some meat behind it.

New Survey Softens Fears of Asteroid Impacts: Reports of our impending collective death have been somewhat exaggerated.

My physical therapist was aware of my slow movements and my fear of causing the acute pain to reemerge due to any sudden or exaggerated movements, and she said to me, «I can see you are afraid to move.

This is an exaggerated version of what most of us experience constantly: fear.

So formidable is Sister Aloysius, the principal of the St. Nicholas Church School, whom the kids, her Catholic subordinates, fear, as evidenced by an early scene where the abbess» voice, like an electric charge, jolts the slumbering parishioners into a comically exaggerated alertness during Father Flynn's sermon, that we believe this woman, this nun, is all - powerful.

While King the writer tends to express overblown anxieties about more or less mundane problems through grotesquely exaggerated stories, DePalma the director employs cinematic language to evoke the visceral intensity of such fears, however absurd they may seem.

A recent study found that 75 percent of white Americans have entirely white social networks — an experience that results in exaggerated perceptions of difference as well as fear and threat.

It sounds too much like a piece of fear - mongering that publishers would * like * people to believe, sort of like the exaggerated health risks of abortion that anti-abortion activists often repeat.

The basis point increase certainly adds to a person's monthly mortgage payment, but fears of the mortgage market grinding to a halt are exaggerated, says Abramowicz.

Fears of the death of Europe have been greatly exaggerated.

While it can happen, this somewhat exaggerated fear seems to be the most recent swing of a pendulum that has gone back and forth over the years between those who used to recommend closing cards to reduce the temptation to charge and those who now say doing so is a sure way to see your score suffer.

Fears that underwater homeowners will default on their mortgages in large numbers are exaggerated, say economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Fear of noises is a normal adaptive response to a real threat, resulting in behavioral and physiological survival responses that drive the dog to seek shelter or otherwise avoid the imminent danger.4 However, when the fearful response to noise is persistent, exaggerated in intensity and duration and results in what appears to be an anxiety attack, this is not normal.

One of its greatest values, however, lies in the diagnosis and treatment of dogs and cats whose behavior results from excessive or exaggerated signs of stress or «fear.»

However, I think that fear was exaggerated and I was fairly confident in the controls by the end of the third mission.

David Shrigley's edition with The Multiple Store «Brass Tooth» is a hugely exaggerated common molar a macabre, comical and dysfunctional object playing with our fear of the dentist's chair.

David Shrigley's edition with The Multiple Store is «Brass Tooth» where Shrigley plays on our fear of the dentist's chair by hugely exaggerating the size of the common molar, but confounds us by making it in solid, heavy brass.

With «Brass Tooth» Shrigley plays on our fear of the dentist's chair by hugely exaggerating the size of the common molar, but confounds us by making it in solid, heavy brass.

How are Will and others of that sort not trying to invoke fear by greatly exaggerating the economic consequences of doing anything?

In all cases, those with a fiduciary charge to protect their investors ultimately resorted to exaggerated claims about costs, relying on public fear to help slow the rate of policy response.

It succeeds financially by fanning people's fears, by exaggerating, by blaming forest fires on global warming when they've really been started by countercultural individuals who believe «modern lifestyles... are unhealthy and out of harmony with the natural systems of planet Earth.»

Much of the warming feared by the alarmists relies upon a positive feedback involving increased water vapour exaggerating any CO2 warming effect.

Two of three scientists at a session on climate change and society at the Indian Science Congress on Tuesday felt fears of man - made global warming were greatly exaggerated.

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«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

It was a war crime and someday exaggerating a crisis with CO2 death threats to billion so of helpless children will see it's criminals of fear charged.

The rapid melting of the Arctic sea ice, then, illuminates the difficulty of modelling the climate — but not in a way that brings much comfort to those who hope that fears about the future climate might prove exaggerated.