If you want to blend in, don't order a cappuccino at the end of a meal - Italians have an irrational cultural horror of milky drinks on a full stomach.

It appealed to many in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when the established politicians had produced - and most continued to defend - the irrational horror of the Vietnam War.

His world is not the unknown, but that irrational horror: the unknowable.

Sometimes, a judge may suffer from irrational horror at a particular case and sentence too severely - to the point of mistake.

I wriggled back on my bench, thumping my head against the wall as an irrational horror crawled over me.

A fictionalized account of a murder that took place on a secluded island in the 1980s involving rational and irrational horrors, the film sold over 2 million tickets nationwide.

In this gasoline-obsessed world he didn't mind ordinary automobiles, but somehow trucks with their suggestion of an unwholesome gigantism touched him with a faint irrational horror.

Yet remember what Ishmael said about him: Starbuck's courage could withstand "winds or whales or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world," but not the worse horrors which come from "an enraged and mighty man."

But that sentiment, which resembled the irrational horror some people have of cats, did not stand in the way of his immense contempt for the English police.

This was too much like the first time she had been in Artemis Entreri's clutches; the assassin evoked an almost irrational horror in her, a deep fear that no other monster, neither a dragon nor a fiend of Tarterus, could bring.