Like him, my children have had to stand by helpless and in absolute panic while their father has brutally beaten me in front of them.

These soldiers quickly realized they would never be able to stop that irresistible tide, and succumbed to a moment of absolute panic.

He sounded more irritated than alarmed, but the ensign felt a moment of total and absolute panic.

"Sometimes," he said, "I wake up in the middle of the night in an absolute panic."

But for one person in twenty, phobia goes beyond normal fear to absolute panic and horror.

With a million technology jobs open in 1999," he said, "there was absolute panic.

I sat there with some friends, watching it all unfold on TV, in an absolute panic.

His hands pounded on her thighs, but the reaction was one of absolute panic and terror.

Mark huddled against the wall, his heart pounding with absolute panic.

This left me in a state of absolute panic.