Sentence examples for dreadful possibility from inspiring English sources

A DREADFUL possibility moved a step closer this week: somebody might actually be executed under Pakistan's brutal blasphemy laws.

An e-text is infinitely malleable, but there is also the dreadful possibility that it might be disarranged or censored.

"In becoming wicked he had become himself," Jim reflects, watching a sailor slide into evil ways, "which I took to be a dreadful possibility".

This film is a record of a journey, and it leaves us with the dreadful possibility that all highways are lost.

Just when they are preparing to hang Meek for his incompetence and possible duplicity, the group succeed in capturing a Native American, played by Rod Rondeaux, who disturbs them with his enigmatic silence and by the dreadful possibility that he, and only he, can lead them safety – but only if they submit to his rule.

The appeals court opinion went on to say: "Unless we are sure of guilt, the dreadful possibility always remains that a mother, already brutally scarred by the unexplained death or deaths of her babies, may find herself in prison for life for killing them, when she should not be there at all.

Throughout this time I was haunted by various dreadful possibilities.

The composition is an augury; it proposes a dreadful future possibility because Stanley fits the description that characterized Trayvon Martin's sidewalk killing as he wore a hoodie and carried an Arizona.

Somehow, Spector had read my piece, disliked it intensely, and, in a moment of madness... taken revenge on his assistant.' That Brown considered this dreadful scenario a distinct possibility gives some indication of the impression that Spector made on him.

While park officials have treated that possibility as something more dreadful than Armageddon, they need to be prepared.

Sadly, there are countless other possibilities, many of them dreadful.