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  • He deliberately pitched his voice low, soothing, the voice he would use on a feral cat or a fear-crazed horse.

    Watcher 3] Fire Watcher Saintcrow, Lilith 2006

  • This reads like a fear-crazed 10-year-old child who got caught doing something very wrong and then desperately and frantically tries to blame someone else -- anyone else -- in order to avoid having to accept blame himself.

    Letting Zarqawi go -- a pathological refusal to accept responsibility Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • We've seen politicians playing on people's paranoia about terrorism and trying to keep people afraid; we've seen the threat of terrorism exaggerated out of all proportion and various fear-crazed politicians and pundits taking to the airwaves to express their cowardly, childish belief that all rational thought must cease because some Muslim, somewhere, might have a box-cutter.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • This reads like a fear-crazed 10-year-old child who got caught doing something very wrong and then desperately and frantically tries to blame someone else -- anyone else -- in order to avoid having to accept blame himself.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Nothing like a bunch of free-floating axiety and some feel-good/do-nothing measures to whip up the nation into an uncritical, writhing blob of fear-crazed yahoos.

    Boing Boing: February 9, 2003 - February 15, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Rolling and tumbling about the room, both half-enveloped by the musty folds of that ancient rotting cloak, they smote and tore at each other among the ruins of the shattered furniture, and the fury of the vampire was not more terrible than the fear-crazed desperation of his victim.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Finally, just as he was beginning to wonder if he should turn back, he entered a room and found himself face-to-face with a fear-crazed Marine.

    The Flood Dietz, William 2003

  • Did you think you'd get away with it, you fear-crazed weasel?

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Did you think you'd get away with it, you fear-crazed weasel?

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Did you think you'd get away with it, you fear-crazed weasel?

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

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