Sentence examples for dreadful past from inspiring English sources

So the coach applies imaginary blinkers that block out the dreadful past.

Immersing us in beautifully managed redolences of a dreadful past, the piece both demonstrates the abundant creative resources of its medium and exhausts them.

But these darker hues sit rather uncomfortably beside the bright pastel colours of the main events: Europe's emergence from her dreadful past, and Thomas's glimpse of a new neo-Sixties world of reckless hedonism, galaxies away from Sunday lunch in Leatherhead.

If their characters are pricked by a helpless urge to travel — down a rabbit hole, to sea in a sieve, second star to the right and straight on till morning — it is because there is always something, a drab existence or a dreadful past, that begs to be fled.

The unlikely, formative friendships Lian makes with two aging historians in the camp (one's cogent motto is "Don't turn around, because behind you lies the dreadful past") and especially with Kim, a schoolmate back in Beijing, constitute the soul of the book as well as the only real spine of its perhaps too linear plot.

If their characters are pricked by a helpless urge to travel down a rabbit hole, to sea in a sieve, second star to the right and straight on till morning—it is because there is always something, a drab existence or a dreadful past, that begs to be fled.

Opining about Trump in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Karl Rove, the Republican strategist, issued a warning: "If he has more weeks like the dreadful past two, the gap between him and Mrs. Clinton is likely to widen and never close again".

The president has had to end import tariffs on rice, Liberia's staple.Memories of the dreadful recent past still fester.

As 2008 winds down, giving us a time to reflect on just how dreadful the past 12 months have been for everyone except Nate Silver, what better time to highlight the Top 10 Douchebags of 2008?

Houston, however, has little chance to win unless Bagwell and Biggio improve on their past dreadful playoff performances.

"Activity at B.N.L. has been dreadful in the past, and that's clearly going to impact the drinking water," said Mr. Amper of the Pine Barrens Society.