Sentences with phrase «fit of panic»

I know in theory I can avoid their leaps, but in practice the very sight of one sends me into fits of panic and I inevitably run straight into them.

If the summer transfer window was a recent barometer of trust, then when the winter version opens in January, huge fees will be spent in fits of panic by clubs desperate for immediate success.

If the disaster seems less than total to you, it is because you have failed to keep pace with the media, who have suddenly descended into one of their periodic fits of panic at the state of the economy — described in just the last 24 hours as «failing,» «dire,» «gloomy,» and «worsening,» not to mention teetering «on the edge of another downfall.»

Some got in before the bubble; others took the plunge more recently in a fit of panic as it seemed prices would never stop escalating.

In a fit of panic during the (first) great flood of 2010, Jon and I made the mistake of using one of Laurel's (ratty but apparently beloved) beach towels to soak up water in the basement.

Now onto this dress... in a fit of panic and less than one week before the deadline, you turned to something that had failed you in the past.

In any case, I need to stress the need of not berating your pooch for fleeing or decimating something amid a fit of panic.

In a fit of panic, some students change their dissertation objective, or in the worst case scenario, will start over with a new topic.