Sentence examples for a creeping dread from inspiring English sources

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There was a creeping dread that Warner's big DC debut would hark back to the ridiculed "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace".

There is also a creeping dread in Hollywood that the industry will be drawn into a governmental crackdown on violent imagery.

DVDs propel profits these days, and there is a creeping dread in the movie capital that buyer interest is plummeting as the global economic crisis worsens.

The prospect induces a jostle of emotions: a rare sensation of hope for Labour people, a creeping dread within Tories and a combination of both thrill and terror among Lib Dems.

What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.

Real-life parallel: The devastating effects of climate change are more apparent every year, a creeping dread that casts a shadow over our planet's long-term future.

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The frights here are less about 100 zombies storming someone's house and more about a slow, creeping dread, about the one or two monsters that no one understands getting loose in the neighborhood.

A Mad Ones production at the New Ohio Theater, "Samuel & Alasdair" has some of the larky excitement of a Russian let's-put-on-a-show, even as its can-do spirit becomes infected with a feeling of creeping dread.

But in a drama more concerned with atmosphere than story, the film-maker and her regular cinematographer Agnès Godard sustain and build a mood of creeping dread, in which banal, everyday activities are invested with a powerful foreboding.

"Samuel & Alasdair" has the larky excitement of "let's put on a show" even as its can-do spirit becomes infected with a feeling of creeping dread.

Underneath all the pluck is a layer of creeping dread too.

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