David Denby, writing in The New Yorker, after declaring that the movie is not "just bad," but "dreadful," goes on to report himself "deeply embarrassed because all around me … people were sitting rapt, awed, absolutely silent, only to burst into applause after some of the numbers".
After Polanski's dreadful go at adapting a play in 2011 — when he took the brilliantly acerbic "Carnage" and massacred it on the big screen — it takes a certain moxie to go back, at least metaphorically, to the scene of the crime.
Analyst Ian Gordon at Investec said: If you are willing to forgive Barclays' dreadful "go-to bank" jargon, the confirmation of the structure and pricing for its long-awaited Africa consolidation ticks all the boxes.
They battled back superbly from a dreadful start to lead going into the closing stages, only to be penalised for a marginal forward pass immediately before Thackray's clinching try.
"Sooner or later, something dreadful is going to happen".
When they leak that something dreadful is going to happen, it's bound to be an anticlimax.
Neil Lennon has insisted there is no chance of Celtic underestimating the threat of Milan despite the Italians' dreadful form going into the Champions League tie.
We cannot "enter" them, as the dreadful phrase goes.
The dreadful boys went from bad to worse, persecuting her wonderful mother.
