31.   More than an extreme fright, a phobia is an irrational fear that causes the sufferer to become highly anxious, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

32.   My mother had an irrational fear that I would get hit in the head with a bat.

33.   One underlying reason was the irrational fear of Islam among the United States and its allies.

34.   Shocked disbelief turned to irrational fear as I raced to the phone.

35.   The psychiatrist is trying to help you remove the irrational fears of your unconscious mind, and he may or may not succeed.

36.   The treatment was long-term analysis, with the belief that uncovering the basis of the irrational fear would eliminate it.

37.   There would be no toleration for grass-roots chauvinism or the bigotry or fanaticism that would try to scapegoat a population out of ignorance and irrational fear.

38.   They said they were making the test results public to head off irrational fears.

39.   Tuttle said irrational fear by humans of the winged mammals has led to the destruction of large colonies in caves and mines in Mexico and Arizona.

40.   We have all, in some measure, been traumatized by events in Littleton but we need to move away from our irrational fears.