Dread
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The White House is in turmoil;Congress is paralyzed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and
dread.
It is living in dread, with millions pushed into the vortex of war by an unrestrained and unhinged US military machine, and with billions living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation.
Naturalized KillersThe arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of
dread
and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.
William Styron’s 1989 memoir, Darkness Visible, rightly calls “depression” a weak word for a debilitating condition that is marked by hopelessness, helplessness, and
dread.
Reinventing the Sino-American RelationshipMILAN – China and the United States are in the grip of major structural changes that both
dread
will end the Halcyon era when China produced low-cost goods and the US bought them.
For those who
dread
the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labor, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs.
It may have been fear of communism that agitated governments when Karl Marx penned the opening line of his famous manifesto in 1848, but today it is the
dread
that market sentiment will turn against them and drive up the spreads on their bonds.
It is not just criminals who live in constant
dread.
If the professionals fail to capitalize on them, the pandemic will offer no silver linings – only more dread, division, chaos, and misery.
And it is showing disrespect for the public, especially young people, many of whom are beginning to
dread
the world they will inherit.
We
dread
clinging on in the grip of, say, dementia, and being a drain on resources and the sympathy of others.
But we need not view these changes with
dread
if the pandemic also propels a transition to better and more universal higher education.
The psychological principle that makes us fear swine flu, avian flu, or COVID-19, but not the common flu is called fear of
dread
risks.
Their second strike occurs with the help of our brains – our fear of
dread
risk that makes us jump from the frying pan into the fire.
The government simply exploited fear of
dread
risk to persecute Egypt’s small Christian minority.
Many Americans
dread
a government devoted to ministering to a mélange of social groups without a thought to core matters of economic growth and job satisfaction.
The answer is obvious, if strange: the United Kingdom, by citizens who
dread
the idea of Brexit.
I share their
dread.
And his
dread
of hurting anybody's feelings, even a child's!
A morbid
dread
of spies haunted them, even at this depth, as if the shareholders' coal, while still in the seam, might have ears.
At first Maheude refused to listen, possessed by a deep
dread.
Tortured by the growling of his well-built stomach, Ned Land was getting more and more riled, and despite his word of honor, I was in real
dread
of an explosion when he stood in the presence of one of the men on board.
Whenever he encountered the captain, his eyes would flicker with dark fire, and I was in constant
dread
that his natural vehemence would cause him to do something rash.
I was in
dread
the latter would give way to some violent outburst that might have had deplorable consequences.
We were in dread, in the last stages of sheer horror, our blood frozen in our veins, our nerves numb, drenched in cold sweat as if from the throes of dying!
Is it
dread
of the unknown?
Then Bournisien took the spade handed to him by Lestiboudois; with his left hand all the time sprinkling water, with the right he vigorously threw in a large spadeful; and the wood of the coffin, struck by the pebbles, gave forth that
dread
sound that seems to us the reverberation of eternity.
There was always the
dread
of bankruptcy, wealth and poverty were always fighting for the upper hand.
Finally Julien set out for the
dread
spot, the landlady from her doorstep pointing out the way.
'My eyes will be dull and will not betray me!'Gradually, the guests arrived in the drawing-room; the door never opened without plunging Julien in mortal
dread.
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