Both Gorbachev and de Klerk began as reformers — that is, politicians devoted to making a dreadful system less dreadful, not to actually abolishing it.
None of which makes the experience any less dreadful.
Such a death seems less dreadful, all of a sudden.
For once, the economy is in less dreadful shape than usual.
The death of a volunteer soldier is less dreadful than the death of a conscript; the death of either perhaps less dreadful than that of a civilian who had the misfortune to live in a strategically important town.
Though, when new arrivals to the great outdoors in wildest Cumbria tackled the obstacles, they found they were less dreadful than they feared.
So Swansea's plight, marooned as they are in 19th place in the table, appears less dreadful with the knowledge that they have had by a distance the most difficult opening 11 games of all top-flight teams.
If it is possible to make judgments at all about how people die, then the death of a bomb disposal expert is a less dreadful thing than the death of a child, or a civilian mother, who walks on to the same landmine by accident.
Aside from ceaseless war in the Middle East and countless refugees engulfing the Greek islands in the Aegean, nothing of any significance happened in 2015 to make the future any less dreadful than the present.
Three possible ways of interpreting advance directives have been identified: either as a safeguard or as a defence instrument or as a means of making the experience of dying somewhat less dreadful [ 10].
