"They cloud reasoning because the only relevant emotion is the basic fear which brought us to this meeting."

They were preying on one of the most basic fears of man, death.

It's really designed to appeal to people's most basic fears about their children.

They all shared the illegal's basic fear of involvement with bureaucracy.

James knew that some people held a basic fear of black people.

For younger children, the biggest hurdle to cross is often basic fear of the unknown.

There was a basic primal fear at work here, he thought.

Our race has but two basic, innate fears; noise and the fear of falling.

For a single instant this basic fear possessed me; then I shrugged it off and tried to win.

"Alligators tie into one of man's most basic fears," he said.