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But if we did achieve it with that dread word "atheist" itself, the political impact would be even greater.
That nagging dread of self-hood didn't exist when I was dancing.
His mind was worried and preoccupied and had stressful memories and, really, dread for his future.
However, had you ended up on the very bottom, it might have given you a slight sense of dread and/or nausea thinking about struggling to get by in retirement.
And it was there that another nurse, not the nurse who was looking after Mrs. Drucker before, but another nurse, said three words to me that are the three words that most emergency physicians I know dread.
Others in medicine dread them as well, but there's something particular about emergency medicine because we see patients so fleetingly.
Many people face the news each morning with trepidation and dread.
So the question is, why did these men dread cannibals so much more than the extreme likelihood of starvation?
Our own emotions and state of mind often encode time, regret or nostalgia about the past, hope or dread about the future.
Far from being sources of agony and dread, hard choices are precious opportunities for us to celebrate what is special about the human condition, that the reasons that govern our choices as correct or incorrect sometimes run out, and it is here, in the space of hard choices, that we have the power to create reasons for ourselves to become the distinctive people that we are.
But the truth is that I've spent my life up until this point and including this point, living in mortal dread of public speaking.
And I know what it means to lie in bed in the pitch-black night and listen to that haunting "pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!" of automatic gunfire, and wonder with absolute dread how many minutes I have left until it will be right on top of me.
Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown figure to give them a sense of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boredom, express religious dread and contemplate suicide.
Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in place of the ambiguous, substituting assumption for reason.
And finally, in German, of course in German, they have a word called "zielschmerz" which is the dread of getting what you want.
Unless we start now to slow this down, I dread to think what our oceans will look like when he's a grown man.
I think this pretty much says it for me and most of the people I know, that we're a mixed grill of happy anticipation and dread.
And those of us who feel youthful longer, it turns out our telomeres are staying longer for longer periods of time, extending our feelings of youthfulness and reducing the risks of all we most dread as the birthdays go by.
Once upon a time, there was a dread disease that afflicted children.
And as long as humans feel a sense of dread about our unknown future, Lovecraftian horror will have a place in the darkest corners of our imagination.
And this happens all the time: nice people who love each other come to dread sex.
So if your brain were to predict a churning stomach in, say, a hospital room while you're waiting for test results, then your brain will be constructing dread or worry or anxiety, and it might cause you to, maybe, wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry.
You wake up and as you're emerging into consciousness, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness, and immediately, your mind starts to race.
But there's a world of difference between stress and disappointment or stress and that knowing dread of "I'm in the wrong career."
Recently, Toni Morrison wrote, "In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
"In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.
A lot of drugs and trippy music replace the dread of night in the original play.
Yes, this movie has an extended zombie sequence, but it's basically an artsy-fartsy exercise in existentialist dread, which is a long way of saying it's boring.
It fails to convey even the slightest sense of excitement, fear, or dread -- unless you count the dread of sitting through the rest of this garbage.
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