Sentence examples for dread of something from inspiring English sources
One is by John Gielgud, who in his Ages of Man recital unforgettably stresses the way the dread of something after death "puzzles the will", as if existence itself were unfathomable.
Who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
"If you had told me 10 years ago that this would happen to us, and I'd do any of the things I have done since that time, that any of us would, I'd say you're crazy – I won't even breathe again," says Cindy. "Always for parents there's that dread of something happening to a child.
In the insurers' most recent mailer, those words were accompanied by a photo of a woman in a hospital gown with her hands clasped as if in dread of something unpleasant about to happen.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time but that the dread of something after death makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of.
Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
This is the mood that Cain has mastered: the dread of knowing something is off, but not being able to see it clearly.
The creeping dread of doing something that will end up earning the disdain, contempt or, potentially worse, pity of those around us can lead to the intense anxiety we feel.
It becomes a dreaded chore, instead of something I appreciate.
It is instead a kind of fear gone wild, a generalized sense of dread about something out there that seems menacing — but that in truth is not menacing, and may not even be out there.
Throughout the novel there is a sense of dread that something even more terrible will happen to Leon or his brother.
