The phrase "dread of not" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically means fear or anxiety about something not occurring or not being present. Example: Her dread of not being accepted into the prestigious university consumed her thoughts and drove her to work harder on her application.
I feel "the dread of not getting out / Before having seen the whole collection".
The dread of not finding a lender after the market collapsed in 2009 has been replaced by uncertainty, confusion and frustration.
She can speak with authority about children, but what she identifies is a cross-generational phenomenon: the fear of inactivity, the dread of not being connected.
There's a mania about the moving that cleverly masks a dread even more profound than that of not being human, and that is the dread of not being married.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet *** John Ashbery, whose twenty-sixth book of poems was published two weeks ago, is very good on attention deficit in an age of cultural surfeit, or what he calls, the dread of not getting out Before having seen the whole collection (Except for the sculptures in the basement: They are where they belong).
He remembers nothing about the game, only the television tuned to CNN for days, the despair that his hometown seemed like a third-world country and the dread of not knowing for 48 hours or so that his mother and a brother had safely evacuated to Houston.
Dread of death, not love of sex, is why the dead keep rising.
Remember the dread of Ronaldo (not Portugal, but Ronaldo) failing to make it to this summer's World Cup? Talent is the new tyranny.
But the plans do not acknowledge anywhere that all this would inescapably involve a dreaded reorganisation of not one but two key public services: healthcare, provided by the NHS, and social care, which is controlled and paid for by local councils.
Little voices irrupting into the text seemingly from nowhere ("'Ho ho,' says the keeper of the beat"), meanwhile, begin to evoke the slow-burning dread of Don't Look Now and Rosemary's Baby.
The first memory Mikey Dread has of Notting Hill carnival is a warm one.
