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English citations of fearscape

Noun: "a place or general atmosphere of fear"

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  • 1992, Tori Amos, "Mother", Little Earthquakes:
    I escape into your escape / Into our very favorite fearscape
  • 1997, Karle Dickerson, Innocent Victim, Darby Creek Publishing (1997), →ISBN, page 97:
    My high school, which once had seemed like a second home, was now a giant fearscape.
  • 1997, Lise Gotell, "Shaping Butler: The New Politics of Anti-Pornography", in Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision (eds. Brenda Cossman & Shannon Bell), University of Toronto Press (1997), →ISBN, page 56:
    Pidduck has observed the recurrent contemporary tendency to represent sexuality through the metaphor of war - from government reports, with titles such as The War against Women, to feminist texts on sexuality, with titles such as The War Zone - as something innately violent that threatens to undermine the social order and that evokes an apocalyptic fearscape (Pidduck 1994, 5).
  • 2003, James Cusick, "Dizzee's world", Sunday Herald, 14 September 2003:
    Although the message is tough for the government to take, it is unlikely to go away and allow the marketing people of Tower Hamlets time for a make-over of the fearscape described by Dizzee Rascal.
  • 2007, Borys Kit, "McG relocates Wonderland to Warner Bros.", The Hollywood Reporter, 8 February 2007:
    "It's a buddy comedy where what kids are afraid of turns out to be real, and our guys have to go into these fearscapes and battle all these monsters," said McG, who is eyeing a November start for the production.