Citations:necrophobia

English citations of necrophobia

Peter Fleming (1936) News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir: “Kini had waited for me and, since Greys hated anything dead, I gave the goose to her. But necrophobia was rife that morning; Slalom went off in a panic, bucking madly, and Kini took her second toss that day.”

Catherine Pickstock (1998) After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy: “This necrophobia can be seen already in the increasing early-modern focus of attention not on the deceased person but upon his survivors and their display of piety in the erection of elaborate tombs and monuments.”

Sharon Wanslee (2000) A Desert Daughter's Odyssey: “Michael was usually kidding, but this time he seemed oblivious to my rampant necrophobia. He calmly folded his hands across his ample stomach, tugged on his moustache and said, "I'm dead serious. Would I joke about dying?"”

John W. Wright (2004/5) “A Commentary on Commentaries on Chronicles”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

He conquers by infiltration, a velvet revolution within and against the scholarly status quo, even as he entombs the text within that past by which he resuscitates it. Confining the text as dead in the past, Knoppers' commentary allows Chronicles to live. His commentary is simultaneously a necrophilia and a necrophobia of Chronicles.