I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

And this in addition to his usual fear of being among people of high society, his fear of making some inane or inappropriate remark.

With world peace constantly being threatened, most of us regard the future skeptically, and even with fear.

Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.

In one of his writings Pascal speaks of this mania for diversion as being a sign of misery and fear which man cannot endure without such opiates.

In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

In some cases these laws were created or retained with the support of those whom they affected, to allow them a day off each week without fear of their competitors still being open.

* The scene where Bruce being a child falls into the cave and see a bat as his inspiration and his fear ( also used in Batman Begins ), something not mentioned in the prequels of Tim Burton.

In November 2004, the manufacturers, Unilever, announced that the composition of Bovril was being changed from beef extract to a yeast extract, claiming it was to make the product suitable for vegetarians and vegans ; at that time fear of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) may have been a factor.

Then for fear of being surrounded, Antony was forced to give the word to attack.

He remained convinced that sound would not work in his films, but was also " obsessed by a depressing fear of being old-fashioned.

Geoffrey Hosking suggests that fear of being enslaved was a central motivating force for the development of the Greek sense of citizenship.

Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue-driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.

In 1937 Wollheim founded the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, whose first mailing ( July 1937 ) included this statement from Wollheim: " There are many fans desiring to put out a voice who dare not, for fear of being obliged to keep it up, and for the worry and time taken by subscriptions and advertising.

However, the medical view is that the rush or high associated with the activity is not due to adrenaline being released as a response to fear, but due to increased levels of dopamine, endorphins and serotonin because of the high level of physical exertion.

" This angered Soga no Umako and, perhaps out of fear of being struck first, Umako had Sushun assassinated by in 592.

Just weeks before his death Morgan said that he did not want to continue playing the role of Father Ted for fear of being typecast: " I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years.

Women fear the pain of re-opening the vagina, and are afraid of being discovered if it is opened illicitly.

Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk ; a vain fear, milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practiced it or not ; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.

Robinson says that all three Synoptic accounts explain the reluctance of the Temple authorities to arrest Jesus on the spot, as being due to their fear of popular support for John the Baptist.

In the course of the night, 6000 of the Verbigeni fled from the camp out of fear of being massacred once they were defenceless.

Hyenas are mostly viewed with fear and contempt, as well as being

He believes that many students block their imaginations through ‘ editing ’ and the fear of being ‘ un-original ’.

Sherman insisted that cavalry could not successfully break up hostile railways, yet Garrard's Covington raid and Rousseau's Opelika raid cut two-thirds of the rail lines he had to break and Sherman lived in mortal fear of what Forrest might do to his communications.

He is certain that the witches ’ prophecies guarantee his invincibility, but is struck numb with fear when he learns that the English army is advancing on Dunsinane shielded with boughs cut from Birnam Wood.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

Toho Studios originally cut fifty minutes off the film when screening it for American distributors for fear that no American audience would be willing to sit through the entire picture.

:" 17 “ Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

Sigmund Freud believed that sexual fetishism in men derived from the unconscious fear of the mother's genitals, from men's universal fear of castration, and from a man's fantasy that his mother had had a penis but that it had been cut off.

While Esquivel was taking a nap in the library, wearing a coat of mail he always wore on for fear of Aguirre, Aguirre cut his temples.

In the episode " Talent Night ", one scene of Dot giving her brother Enzo " a sisterly kiss on the chin " was cut due to BS & P's fear of promoting incest, an insinuation which Pearson described as " one of the sickest things I've heard.

It is frequently alleged that the predominant reason for the minute's applause tending to replace the minute's silence is out of fear that opposition fans will not respect the silence, and spend their time booing, jeering, or otherwise attempting to disrupt it ; many silences have been cut short from the usual minute to thirty seconds or less for this reason.

Out of fear, Fan Qiang and Zhang Da killed Zhang Fei while he was asleep, cut off his head, and defected to Eastern Wu.

The Stax labels ' profits were cut severely, particularly since the CBS distribution agents bypassed the traditional small mom-and-pop record sellers in the black community which had been the backbone of Stax's distribution, and weren't pushing the Stax product to the larger retailers for fear of undercutting rack space for CBS R & B artists such as Earth Wind and Fire, The Isley Brothers, and Sly & the Family Stone.

" And when his hands were cut off he paints his face with his own blood, when asked why, he says: " I have lost a lot of blood, and I know my face has turned yellow, I don't want to look pale-faced ( as of fear )...

The crew is cut off from radio contact with Earth and the light of the sun, and both the crew and their families fear they are lost forever.

A cut version of the mini-series was withdrawn from Egyptian cinemas after 6 days, due to fear of possible agitations in the wake of blasphemy.

U. S. president Richard Nixon stated his fear that Chile could become " another Cuba ", and the U. S. cut off most of its foreign aid to Chile and supported Allende's opponents in Chile during his presidency, intending to encourage Allende's resignation, his overthrow, or his defeat in the impending election of 1976.

Likewise, bodily pain that induces fear, such as a cut, wound or fracture, evoke sympathy because of the danger that they imply for ourselves ; that is, sympathy is activated chiefly through imagining what it would be like for us.

Though five stages of occupation at Lerna have been identified, the site of " House of the Tiles ", after it had been destroyed by fire, was not rebuilt upon, whether through respect or fear, until, at the end of the Middle Helladic period, shaft graves were cut into the tumulus of the House of Tiles, indicating that the significance of that monument had been forgotten.

For fear of her life, Pinsky cut the dosage in half, despite Kitaen's protests.

" Anxiety " is the anticipation or fear of being cut off from the attachment figure.

In April 2006 it made # 83 in Classic Rock's " The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums ", noting that " drummer Terry Ollis and bassist Dave Anderson could hit an awesome groove, allowing the rest of the band to cut loose on their acid-fuelled sonic adventures without fear of losing themselves or their listeners.

Their outfits and equipment only further incited this fear with beliefs that “ they parade at midnight, carry rails to break open our doors, torches to fire our dwellings, and beneath their long black capes the knife to cut our throats ”.

When the desert tanker boots came out, it was not authorized to have steel toe inserts for fear that the crewman may have his toe cut off if too much weight was put on the boot.

It is illegal for a woman to dress as a man, or for a barber to cut the hair of a woman short ( out of fear that doing so would facilitate cross-dressing ).