Despite my increasing dread of opening his e-mails, I continued to do so, and to write back.
"I turned the pages with increasing dread," says Stephen King of the book.
Nina's obsession with being perfect -- the perfect ballerina, the perfect daughter, the perfect Swan -- lead her down an increasingly dark path in which her sanity is threatened and the drums of tragedy thunder with increasing dread.
A traumatised nation headed towards the imminent Republican and Democratic conventions with an increasing sense of dread.
Before that, we watch with an increasing sense of dread, as her husband becomes an ever more ineffectual king.
As Blanca concludes her memoir for Otto and moves eastward toward the territory of her imaginings, we feel, instead of hope and relief, an increasing sense of dread.
But Diaz spent his years in high school with an increasing sense of dread that higher education wasn't in his future.
In the wake of this outrage, her children rally to her support — at first grudgingly, then with an increasing sense of urgency and dread, as the intractability of her addiction becomes clear.
Seven perceptions were measured, including: increasing risk, dread of risk, belief that they know the risk, known to science/experts, personal control, trust of authorities and public support for the risk-reducing measures.
The signs are increased irritability, a dread of going to work, an inability to experience joy, and often an increased use of alcohol or drugs.
As it gets closer to the holiday season, I find myself with a slowly increasing feeling of dread at the looming influx of pink toy commercials -- not because I have an aversion to pink toys, but because there is nothing to balance it out.
