Sentence examples for primal dread from inspiring English sources
A city founded as it was on the primal dread of damnation and the need to find a mystic river to salvation.
Primal dreads have gone unacknowledged.
For me the primal experience of Boston dread has less to do with shame and guilt than traffic and transit -- the automotive equivalent of the eternal torment of Charlie on the M.T.A. My primal Boston experience came on one awful weekend in young adulthood that scarred me forever.
The tale gives fresh expression to an age-old primal fear: a mother's dread of being supplanted or destroyed by a daughter.
Fairy tales, which end in comfort -- the listener drifting toward sleep, the characters sent off to the land of happily ever after -- originate in darker emotions: dread, loneliness, the primal fear of being left behind.
Stravinsky's strange and meditative Introduction to Part II had, through this conductor, an element I'd never heard before — dread, a reminder that this primal piece is as much about death as life.
Parker is a frustratingly peripheral presence – he narrates too few chapters for my liking – but Connolly is excellent as always at using primal archetypes to create an atmosphere of apocalyptic dread.
Mr. del Toro takes an almost sensuous delight in weaving aural and visual textures of fear; water droplets and heartbeats echo in the stillness, and the camera replicates that primal childhood state of being poised between curiosity and dread.
She falls in love with the science teacher at school (who asks his students to act as if they have dread diseases), but when the moment comes for her to demonstrate her love, her primal fear of success takes over and she disappears into the bathroom to eat soap instead.
This casual abandonment seems to fulfill a primal anxiety experienced by children who wander away from their parents -- not just a fear of being lost, but a dread of being forgotten.
