It's in enough magazines that the greatest fear - over the fear of death - is the fear of public speaking.
The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.
First, it is nearly always rooted in the experience of death and the fear of extinction.
Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.
As Blanche, mezzo Isabel Leonard sounded vibrant, even if she didn't always capture the vulnerability of the young postulant who struggles with her fear of death.
In entirely too many cases, the answer is fear not of physical death, but instead fear of our financial demise, which is often rooted in a fear of lifestyle reduction, which is often rooted in a fear of relative lifestyle comparison with our peers, which is especially ironic when you consider the millions of unemployed workers, bankrupt households, foreclosed homes and underwater homeowners.
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The start of the Black Death in 1348 will be the setting against which to explore fear, faith, economic ravagement and the imposition of political power.
This is not the bold, humorless laugh of the triumphant atheist, who conquers what he calls death and his own fear of it.
She keeps sensibly quiet about where she lives, but she can travel and shop without the constant fear of death.
Many Kandaharis fear that the death of Hakim Jan will clear the way for the Taliban to move into his district near Kandahar, giving militants easier access to targets in Afghanistan's second largest city.
Lord Justice Leveson, sepulchral in tone, has delivered conclusions that could, or so many fear, become the death knell of a free press.
Nicholas Conning, 45, denies causing the death of a Jennifer Findlay by placing her in a state of fear and alarm at a property in Elders Court on 12 June 2012.
Florida law allows the use of deadly force anywhere a person feels a reasonable fear of death or serious injury.
Jim Hoefler, of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, who is the author of a recent book on death in America, notes that boomers have a fear their parents never knew: that an impersonal health-care system may hook them up to an array of beeping machines rather than admit failure.
Senate leaders fear that path is a recipe for a slow death for the idea of comprehensive change, allowing for interest groups to cherry-pick the changes of most value to them while leaving other pieces behind.
Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Tony already has a fear of death, but more importantly he has been overcome with a fear of failure, a fear that as the threats grow worse he might be unable to protect the people he loves most.
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