The world of "The Aura" is, quite obviously, a heightened and stylized version of reality, but its governing emotions of dread, suspicion and moral confusion are bracingly real.
A mood of dread, suspicion, and blistering political rhetoric.
What the ethnonationalists view with dread and suspicion, Bourne saw as grounds for pride and joy.
The record of ethnic groups trying to live together in this country hadn't been perfect, Bourne acknowledged, but considering the abysmal results of such attempts everywhere else it had been tried, he thought they coexisted here with "almost dramatic harmlessness". What the ethnonationalists view with dread and suspicion, Bourne saw as grounds for pride and joy.
Classically, comets, meteors, and other strange celestial phenomena were always viewed with dread and suspicion.
That brought us a full decade of useless wars, a dire economic tailspin and tens of thousands dead, along with widespread intolerance, isolationism, the TSA, the Patriot Act, enough dread and suspicion to last generations.
That was when Mr. Hitchens's critical review of Mr. Amis's newest book -- an idiosyncratic study of Stalin titled "Koba the Dread" -- raised suspicion among the literary set that the two had fallen out, just as Mr. Amis did with the fellow novelist Julian Barnes in a well-publicized and seemingly unhealed rift in the mid-1990's.
Some people get really enthusiastic about group assignments, while others view them with suspicion and dread.
There was a time, not long ago, when a priest's devotion to children would elicit a smile of approval rather than a shudder of suspicion and dread.
Many Haitians, for their part, she contends, "approach outsiders with suspicion and dread, as well as, sometimes, opportunistic expectancy" — defensive behavior shaped, she says, by the history of slavery and the "habitual watchfulness of voodoo".
Six years later, in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," a play inspired by the hysteria of the McCarthy era, a young girl's fears and neuroses turned reality into fantasy, a weapon of suspicion and dread.
