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Some critics in the twenties felt that popular hysteria over crime pressured the police into using the third degree.
There is a strange hysteria around the horrible idea that our little ones may ever be exposed to anything even slightly dangerous.
Passengers had described the scene as mass hysteria.
In the country at large there is nothing of hysteria or panic.
This hysteria has to stop.
All the evidence for climate hysteria is based on climate models which have never been proven to correctly predict climate.
His plotting is full of funny, unpredictable moments but lacks the grating hysteria of the comic genre.
Her only intelligence lies in the fact that she knows how to make money off of a combination of hysteria and ignorance.
Stop your hysteria, and if you ain't tried it, don't knock it.
Both are obsessed with media outrage and trying to drum up hysteria where none or little exists as it helps get ratings.
What has changed-aside from the degree of hysteria among parents-is the college-admissions calculus itself.
Green hysteria has the upper hand, but the greens don't know anything about science or economics.
It just fans the flames of misguided hysteria.
This kind of non-thinking and stereotypically-driven hysteria has no place among civilized people.
The sudden hysteria is perplexing, but serious concern is long overdue.
Amid the hype and hysteria of supporters and critics, here's what you need to know.
The show exudes far too much hysteria over faux dilemmas.
And more than a year in the making proves they are using our tax money to keep them in business by causing hysteria.
There's going to be a sense of hysteria.
By this time the hysteria was over, and nearly everyone concerned was feeling shaken and ashamed.
It is a completely deranged system and it relies on permanent hysteria and coercion.
National media attention, with its attendant voices of hysteria, only added to the churn.
To me, that line of argument smacks more of hysteria than of rational thought.
Anxiously awaiting the hysteria about how the climate doesn't need to be saved.
Nice to see that hysteria is still alive and well in our society today.
All confidential transactions are not crime or terrorism, despite the hysteria over security.
Winners will be determined by audience hysteria.
Hysteria needs a doctor or theorist, an authority figure who can give it a compelling name and narrative.
As parental hysteria has escalated due to anxieties, the actual data show that this is not a legitimate fear.
If they go into hysteria maybe then they need counseling on what the tests mean.
However, the hysteria around here has gone far beyond these reasonable points.
You know there is no scientific foundation for all this hysteria, and you of all people should deal with the facts.
Her psychic experiences they ascribed to hysteria, using the term in its medical sense, of dissociation.
And that was part of what invited a lot of press scrutiny and a lot of the hysteria that ensued-but a lot of that was hyperbole.
Please be more responsible and stop spreading hysteria and promoting junk science.

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