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  • Since then, he'd suffered a haunting phobia of enclosed spaces—elevators, subways, squash courts.†   (source)
  • It's a real phobia with him.†   (source)
  • "You're going to work where?" was her comment; point being, as it unfolded, that AnooYoo was a collection of cesspool denizens who existed for no other reason than to prey on the phobias and void the bank accounts of the anxious and the gullible.†   (source)
  • We had hoped the chipper-shredder incident in the garage was an isolated aberration, but it turned out to be just the beginning of what would become a lifelong pattern of phobic, irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • "We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later," I said.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had a phobia concerning open spaces, although the spaces at the college were mainly snug and quaint.†   (source)
  • You mean, like a real phobia?†   (source)
  • Once, when Eragon bumped his head against the ceiling, a sudden flare of claustro —phobia unnerved him.†   (source)
  • It was so hospital-like I felt the nervousness that had been simmering in my stomach since we'd left the house-ambulance phobia-begin to build.†   (source)
  • Come on, surely you've got a phobia or two.†   (source)
  • The man Freud can make all the claims he wants (he is said to attribute nearly every phobia and fear to the physical intimacies between man and woman-sex!†   (source)
  • I mean, ackero-phobia doesn't have anything to do with being afraid you'll holler out something god-awful in church, does it?†   (source)
  • I have a phobia about flying at thirty thousand feet in a heavy tube of metal with two hundred strangers, many of whom like to tell the intimate details of their lives to the person next to them.†   (source)
  • I've got a phobia about crossed or jimmied or rustjammed or dirt-jammed threads that cause nuts to turn slow or hard; and when I find one, I take its dimensions with a thread gauge and calipers, get out the taps and dies, recut the threads on it, then examine it and oil it and I have a whole new perspective on patience.†   (source)
  • Rex might have sheriff-phobia, but there were worse things than getting busted.†   (source)
  • She didn't consider herself phobic, but closed-in spaces made her itchy.†   (source)
  • Sophie made grateful use of these facilities; indeed, she would have been required to use them, since the mistress of the mansion, Hedwig Hoss, possessed a Westphalian hausfrau's phobia about dirt and made certain that any of the prisoners lodged beneath her roof keep clothing and person not merely clean but hygienic: potent antiseptics were prescribed for the laundry water and the prisoners domiciled in Haus Miss went around smelling of germicide.†   (source)
  • Whether or not he sensed my phobia about his breed I will never know, but he acted in a drama convincing enough to draw me to the brink of coronary failure.†   (source)
  • I stopped letting anyone take pictures of me a while ago. I guess you could call it a phobia.   (source)
  • Me, a well-laid history of needle/blood phobia.   (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear
  • Because of that "phobia and ignorance," Southam wrote, he didn't tell patients the cells were cancerous because he didn't want to cause any unnecessary fear.   (source)
    phobia = unreasonable fear
  • There was no point dwelling on my unreasoning horror of a large public wedding—enclosed spaces, claustrophobia, sudden movements, phobic triggers everywhere,   (source)
  • Me, the glass jar of pee hidden in my purse, a doctor's appointment (oh, I can't do a blood test, I have a total phobia of needles …. urine test, that'll do fine, thank you).   (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear
  • I have a serious phobia.   (source)
    phobia = extreme and unreasonable fear of something
  • I don't really have any other phobias, but those two are solid—I am the girl who swoons at a paper cut.   (source)
    phobias = extreme and unreasonable fears
  • It's just a stupid phobia, he assured himself.†   (source)
  • Interesting, he thought, to discover his stalwart lieutenant had a phobia.†   (source)
  • I think what you mean is a totally different phobia.†   (source)
  • That trauma had scarred Langdon's psyche, burdening him with an overwhelming phobia of enclosed spaces.†   (source)
  • Despite the prescription tranquilizers, which Jenny was feeding him with increasing frequency, more for her sake than for his, Marley's thunder phobia grew more intense and irrational each day.†   (source)
  • Each morning I opened the newspaper to the classifieds as if I might find some miracle ad: "Seeking wildly energetic, out-of-control Labrador retriever with multiple phobias.†   (source)
  • Scarlett had always been phobic of stethoscopes and lab coats and needed moral support, so I'd been pardoned from my most recent grounding, for (1) lying about being with Macon and (2) breaking curfew.†   (source)
  • Perhaps her image was one of take what comes and make the best of it, but she had her phobias as well.†   (source)
  • My boyfriend, which at that time was Eddie Tubbs, it was way before I met Angel, thought it was fear of heights and told everybody on the bus on the way home that I had ackero-phobia, but it was way more complicated than that.†   (source)
  • She and the others had developed a phobia about water so strong that it would take several weeks just to get them to enter the pool.†   (source)
  • I was still not taking their phobia seriously and was trying to think of a way to eliminate this nonsense once and for all.†   (source)
  • Six weeks in America has given me an absolute phobia of ice.†   (source)
  • It's that phobia of his, his damn porcelain.†   (source)
  • He hesitated, and for a moment I thought he was going to talk of Manderley at last, but something held him back, some phobia that struggled to the surface of his mind and won supremacy, for he blew out his match and his flash of confidence at the same time.†   (source)
  • It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how many phobias were now checked, he permitted himself to rest.†   (source)
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