They are, after all, more than mere sensations-else how do we distinguish between abject fear and cheerful excitement?

I'd sit there in abject fear, but she's so relaxed.

Birds are singing, and the spring air smells of pine resin, wild thyme and abject fear.

Sometimes - when confronted with a home lie detector kit, for instance - it takes submission, and a willingness to acknowledge abject fear.

I spend my life reading other people's essays in journals in abject fear of studying an already 'overworked' area, petrified that my thesis will be invalid.