Suddenly, they seem stricken by a crippling fear of success.

She appeared curious, ill at ease, but no longer possessed by that crippling fear of life itself.

Those kinds of crippling fears are realities for thousands of people.

The negative side of the photograph, as Rajaratnam might have said, is a crippling fear of failure.

Anthony Ivo grew up with a crippling fear of death.

Like many snipers, Clayton Price has a crippling fear of intimacy.

This has left him with a crippling fear of knives and can go into a blind panic when he sees one.

Also crippling fear can result from taking an imagined painful future too seriously.

Now, Bernard can use his brain to make others feel the kind of crippling fear he used to feel.

Cheever had suffered from a crippling fear of crossing high bridges.