Biblical scholars turned their noses up, calling it hysteria, theatrics, a faith of the illiterate.
But if I'm not worried about the Y2K bug, I'm deathly afraid of Y2K hysteria.
The evening news will fill with stories of apocalyptic behavior, further raising the hysteria.
It was only a few months ago that hysteria pervaded the talk over energy prices.
As the music reaches a crescendo, so, too, does the hysteria of the crowd.
Or those who score so infrequently that they can't help but burst into hysteria.
"It presents a series of scientifically plausible, worst-case scenarios without tipping into hysteria, " he said.
Brahms' complete lack of hysteria, even when expressing this Herculean struggle, is extremely appealing to me.
They are certainly still smiling, but it may be hysteria not happiness that impels them.
And we are mindful of the destructive power of mass hysteria and heedless adulation.
Will we make science based choices or empirical evidence will they be driven by precautionary hysteria?
It is a subtle but important distinction often lost in the hysteria surrounding terrorism.
Salem burned itself an infamous place in history with the1692 hysteria that put innocent people to death for witchcraft.
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the international hysteria over the Netanyahu government is its timing.
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Their responses to the probe of their finances have been marked by total hysteria.
"The hysteria, the media circus, it's just crazy, " Mr Lee told the Orlando Sentinel.
Blass: Lots of power outages due to drunk drivers on New Year's Eve will fuel Y2K hysteria.
Rather, it exaggerates them, with a sort of frozen hysteria, to the point of something fiercely original.
The best mistake you can make is to detach yourself from the hysteria and take some profits.
Hide's death produced scenes of grief and hysteria not witnessed for a music star since the war.
As always in Washington when there is talk of cutting spending, most of the hysteria is baseless.
But 1960s America was also a period of growing concern (hysteria, even) about population in developing countries.
But MacLeod believes it's important that Tony Mowbray's men do not get sucked in by the surrounding hysteria.
But Cebu made be realize why the Internet has not socially and culturally become mass-hysteria for the masses.
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Her aunt's hysteria, formulated oddly in terms of the drawing room, moved her to her own urgent attention.
Maybe not quite iPhone 5 hysteria, but certainly a promising sign for when the hardware launches June 20th.
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In practice, the hysteria died down, even as the benefits of offshoring were being questioned more and more.
The hype and hysteria that accompanied every new scheme to build market share through first-mover advantage is over.
The excitement, or some would say, football hysteria, is fuelled by newspaper columns tracking the build-up in minute detail.
Drug-resistant pandemics have been a staple of local news hysteria since the H1N1 virus swept the globe in 2009.
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