Sentence examples for as dread from inspiring English sources

But she deploys love and humor as convincingly as dread.

Human attitudes were shaped by curiosity as much as dread.

Your heart pounds, your chest tightens, you sweat and gasp as dread sets in.

Thoughts about improvisation, as fancy and as dread, pervade the book.

Analysts say there are few objective measures and much room for such unquantifiables as dread.

Brontë didn't see the moors as dread and drear, though, nor its bogs as a slough of despond.

"In the hierarchy of places the elderly want to avoid, hospitals are almost as dreaded as nursing homes," said Dr. Jeanne Morley, an internist at the North Shore Medical Clinic in Manhasset.

"Are you as dreaded as the Chunnel?" asked Scotland on Sunday in 1994, while the Times in 1998 warned how "Chunnel pay strikes may hit shoppers".

Dickens described it as, "dreaded by even the most dauntless highwaymen and bearable only to toads and rats".

Upon further reflection, Austin admitted the industry confronted her with a line as dreaded as "Bring your playbook" is in sports: Your time as a relevant performer has come and gone in Nashville.

But the movie has as much dread of sex as adoration for it.