"I'm dreading someone like Coke offering us half a million quid to do something," Simon says, even though he does acknowledge that as label mates on Warners with Bugs Bunny, they're scarcely an underground outfit any more.
Someone who scores high in neuroticism is generally given to negative emotions such as sadness or anger or dread, whereas someone who scores low on this trait has a generally sunny disposition.
In Mr. Vian's view, Benedict — who once said he had greeted his election with the dread of someone mounting the steps of the guillotine — had envisioned an early departure right from the start.
Like the semi-documentary "Touching the Void," this film, based on a true story, titillates us with the dread of (someone else's) exotic death, and teases us with the illusion that what we are watching is real.
And yet even though she'd already landed the lead, I had this dread that someone would challenge my niece's casting in the same way I had been challenged when I wanted to play Luke in Star Wars, or Lenny in Of Mice and Men.
Do I still get a horrible clunk of dread when someone gets Cards Against Humanity out?
People often find themselves in tough situations and dread facing someone, whether a loved one, friend, or colleague.
But Young dreaded "letting someone else raise him and keep track of him and make sure his mind and soul and body were O.K".
In a 2001 interview with the magazine Heavy Metal Mayhem, Mr. Klingman said he had approached the sessions dreading that someone would say, "Who are you, Sonny, to tell us what to do?" No one did.
I was both hoping and dreading that someone would call the police.
