Sentences with phrase «seated fears of the other»

If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci - fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep - seated fears of the Other, the foreigner — the increasingly frequently decried «invasion» of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs.

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Empty seats, on the other hand, are a visible indication of a lack of interest and an absence of confidence that the board should fear will spread to sponsors.

We rode to the top of the mountain in those seats talking of our fears and giving each other supportive speeches.

But then one time, while riding a crowded city bus at 8 months pregnant, carrying a laptop on one shoulder and heavy books on the other, it took three stops and me shouting obscenities at the other passengers for someone to finally offer up their seat (out of fear).

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

My main fear as stated before on other such threads is not that UKIP will win many seats, (It will of course lose some of its existing seats but still have about 4 or 5 I feel) but that it will act as a spoiler for the Tory Party and indirectly help Labour as Sally Roberts has said.

We have speculated before that back in 2003 and 2004 when Jeff Bezos, Steven Kessel, and others began dreaming up the Kindle and its associated publishing and retail platform, they were driven by fears that the rise of ebooks — with some other parties in the drivers» seats — could, within a decade, destroy the retail print book business that was then the core of their business.