mob hysteria

'According to Silver the disc people are ripe for mob hysteria.

Such information fueled this first wave of mob hysteria of the Revolution.

Some details of the account seem false, but other sources agree that he led the calls for harsh penalties, whipping up mob hysteria.

These people were at overheat on the subject of planet Earth: "Mob hysteria" did not even begin to describe it.

I was overcome with mob hysteria.

Mob hysteria had become the universal condition of mankind-for all except Seward who had created it.

It was just mob hysteria.

One day, Mohsen, caught up in mob hysteria, finds himself casting stones at a prostitute's head, "the light of his conscience" gone out.

It had been enough, the final spark to ignite the smoldering unrest in the city, possibly over all of Romulus, into mob hysteria.

The motion that Socrates was guilty was carried by 281 to 220, a close result which indicates that the decision was not the product of some universal mob hysteria.

The defense lawyers argued that mob hysteria "de-individualized" the defendants, who included the township's first Mayor and the victim's best friend, and that their actions were inconsistent with their normal behavior.

"There's a certain amount of mob hysteria among scientists in southern California," said Dr. Allan Lindh, chief seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park.

Its themes include the pathology of rumor, the arrogance of the religiously righteous, the dangers of private panic in the face of public terror, and the individual's difficulty in acting rationally in the face of mob hysteria.

It was far more likely to be a case of one group of rioters aping or imitating the actions of other groups as the need or desire took them - almost, it might be claimed, an early example of mob hysteria.

"If I can get a word in edgeways, in time to stop the mob hysteria that seems to be infecting this table," said Smith loudly and firmly, "I'd like to point out that there's nothing to worry about -even if John's ingenious fantasy is correct.

London's The Daily Mail called The Hunchback of Notre Dame "Disney's darkest picture, with a pervading atmosphere of racial tension, religious bigotry and mob hysteria" and "the best version yet of Hugo's novel, a cartoon masterpiece, and one of the great movie musicals".

Dr. Roger Pedersen, a reproductive sciences professor at the University of California at San Francisco, shared Dr. Varmus's view that the ban's value would be to help "quell the sort of mob hysteria that attends this issue," but said he was concerned about the effect of regulation.