Sentence examples for a touch of dread. from inspiring English sources

I grant that he himself may not have been all that conscious of expressing a touch of dread.

As one headline put it, a "Touch of Dread" that a tech bubble was inflating ran through all of the pieces, which were filled with tales of possible bubble excess, such as the fact that Melt, a company that plans to sell grilled cheese via mobile phones, raised $15 million from Sequoia Capital.

Passing beneath it, you sense its great weight, perhaps with a touch of physical dread like that stirred by Richard Serra sculptures.

I want all of you actors to just stop.' " Mr. Bridges admits that his memory doesn't quite jibe with the finished film, which uses a series of freeze frames to halt the actors in their tracks a touch of emphatic existential dread that may be the only questionable note in an all-but-perfect movie.

In 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon described OK Computer as a "prescient... dystopian essay on the darker implications of technology... oozing [with] a vague sense of dread, and a touch of Big Brother foreboding that bears strong resemblance to the constant disquiet of life on Security Level Orange, post-9/11".

Think Le Carré, who is thanked in the acknowledgements for "irresistible reminiscences", with a touch of the tough-guy politics of Amis's Koba the Dread.

Barber's measured pacing creates a sustained dread as the soldiers lay siege; the final explosion of violence has a touch of Tarantino-esque catharsis.

Beneath the veneer of tranquillity, a feeling of dread prevails.

A feeling of dread overtook me.

A feeling of dread washes over the father.

I woke up this morning with a feeling of dread.