A kind of psychological twilight zone is emerging in which it is difficult to distinguish between realistic and exaggerated fears.

Third, the only thing likely to turn the Serbian leaders from their murderous course is outside force or a realistic fear of it.

Tendency to Imitate He said a more realistic fear was children mocking stutterers.

But is that a realistic fear?

The problem is not that inescapable, realistic fears remain but that Germany has a way of perpetuating them.

No, there was one realistic fear for him.

With no sounding board, they say, these daughters may bottle up their realistic fears that they may get breast cancer, too.

But I think there's a more realistic fear for the very existence of a company.

It is a realistic fear, given her circumstances.

Perhaps I am mistaken about Inman's realistic fears of exposure.