The purpose of each human is to die alone, and a sense of dread for the future is common, even if unrealized.
I was bitterly disappointed, not only concerned about what a President Trump could do to our nation's gun laws but also filled with dread for the future of our country.
In contrast, he continued, "there are certain newspaper and magazine articles -- most particularly, perhaps those in Private Eye, Spectator and New Statesman -- which I read and reread in a frenzy of self-congratulation and dread for the future".
It's anyone's guess, because of the world we now live in— with its global economy, globalized recession, globalized sense of dread about the future, and panoply of world leaders who seem incapable of repairing anything anymore.
Thus my apartment has come to reflect my mind, which is also kippled: I'm mired in the heartbreaks of the past; I'm confused and nuts in the present; and I dread the pain of the future, the coming losses.
In the air I thought of all the remote places I've been that could be made less remote by Twin Otters, and thought with vertiginous dread of the inevitability of future long-distance journeys on pitted and perilous roads.
The narrator states at Persuasion's end that "the dread of a future war [was] all that could dim her sunshine".
Dump the Hump," all the fury of the beatings and the teargassings, all the bitter disappointments of that recently elapsed bright spring when the only critical problem was who would make a better President, Kennedy or McCarthy (now all the dread of a future with Humphrey or Nixon).
Many people are filled with anxiety and dread when they think of the future -- but not you!
In this sermon, Swift was worried about how guilt affects mankind or how the lack of guilt is a sign of mankind's problems: "the Shortness of his Life; his Dread of a future State, with his Carelessness to prepare for it".
