There was a near universal fear that paper currency would become worthless, especially to the losing side.
A serious reverse in house prices is a universal fear.
I'm certain your panic at the thought of his leaving you is the universal fear of loneliness.
It's the universal fear for proprietors of the national pastime.
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.
Because of the universal fear that prevailed, no effort was made to follow the missing cadavers.
Only then can we confront the universal fear of our own extinction.
In the universal fear and distrust that darkened the time, all the usual harmless ways of life were changed.
Many of us fear the same things - so are there such things as universal fears?
You could see it in their eyes, the universal fear of the lunatic.