Except that the system seems to be running on sheer panic.

The whole group was now in a state bordering on sheer panic.

There are other times when the market is in a state of sheer panic, and they sell the shares off.

A brief moment of sheer panic and after that he did not fight against the inevitable again.

He leaped backward in sheer panic to the street outside.

She tried the door handle again, thinking perhaps she'd been unable to open it out of sheer panic.

In sheer panic, Sweets calls for help, and is joined by the others.

If the public knew how long the snatchings had been going on, sheer panic would hit the nation.

The next second his pulse nearly stopped in sheer panic at having made such a noise.

He felt sheer panic and tried without success to shy away.