Most women express concern about their weight, but bulimics have an inordinate fear of weight gain.

But actual violence and real bombs have been rare, law-enforcement officials and educators say, and what has been stalking the schools is an inordinate fear of death.

I was a Bush-watcher long before I thought it would ever be useful and may be able to pinpoint the time he was seized by his inordinate fear of running without solid support from the far right.

He had an old man's inordinate fear of being struck down and hurt.

"My personal rhythm is notched up a bit from an inordinate fear of failure and, at times, I do get a little impatient," he said.

With his impeccable sense of timing, Carter gave a speech on May 22, 1977, exhorting Americans to abandon their "inordinate fear of Communism."

She didn't suffer from an inordinate fear of death; rather, she was troubled by the thought of dying before achieving any lasting accomplishment.

They say innovation can be deterred when either inventors or developers have inordinate fears of being sued over new products and technologies.

She had never treated the leader of the clan, and regarded him with inordinate fear.

These people had an inordinate fear of fire, and while they used it, particularly on Eden, they used it minimally.