Sentence examples for measure of dread from inspiring English sources

But it is to the clash of civilizations we must look with a measure of dread...

Postpartum depression takes a murderous turn in this slight exercise, which, for all its modesty, generates a measure of dread.

The Clemens trial also gives us another reason to fixate on the Yankees, who will watch their two former pitchers in court with a measure of dread.

By taking initiative at the U.N., the E.U. has given Kerry the chance to provide all sides with a political horizon, and Israel's centrist voters with a measure of dread, one to counter Netanyahu's claims about the necessities of dealing with a "tough neighborhood".

It is a measure of the dread among Democrats and their labor allies that several unions are no longer threatening to withhold endorsements from some conservative or moderate Democrats, like Representative Zack Space of Ohio, because they had bucked labor on health care legislation or other issues.

Add a small amount of dread to each ball.

To feel the earth's fury but realize that others are bearing its full brunt evokes an extra measure of powerlessness and dread.

Some nations I could mention would just love to reach the quarterfinals as a measure of their growth; other nations dread the quarterfinals as a treacherous hurdle.

The local police may not have much use for their new antiterrorism equipment, but readers who venture into Lake Wobegon in search of security or nostalgia will, as always, be brought up short by surprisingly large measures of sadness and dread.

Keillor's fictional town "has always sat a little closer to Winesburg than Mayberry," Thomas Mallon wrote in the Book Review, and readers who venture there in search of nostalgia will "be brought up short by surprisingly large measures of sadness and dread".

"But that Isis were offended enough by his shrine to destroy it gave back to him, paradoxically, a measure of his old qualities of majesty and dread.