Sentence examples for public dread from inspiring English sources

But right-wingers stoked public dread and polls soon showed significant disapproval of the closure.

But public dread of nuclear war (covered here by an eccentric scheme to build a nuclear-proof town) is surely something that, unreasonably or not, has grown smaller rather than larger.

In "The Din in the Head," her new collection of essays, many of them written for publications like The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review, Ozick sounds the latest of a million warnings about the oft postponed catastrophe that only novelists still fear, despite their perennial attempts to make the public dread it, too.

This fall, Creative Time and artist Pedro Reyes are tapping into public dread and staging a twist on the traditional haunted house: a political house of horrors called Doomocracy, filled not with monsters and zombies, but with faulty mortgages, GMO's, and Donald J. Trump.

In America too, one can often sense an emotional "double-feeling", as the Dutch would call it, between the public's dread of the government's all-embracing surveillance capabilities, and the public's vicarious awe at the perspective afforded by an apparatus that aspires to monitor the entirety of the human race's electronic communications.

Senator Clinton seems to have dismissed the portion of the voting public that dreads another four years of a unilateral "decider" in the White House who apparently thinks that he can do/has done no wrong.

If we were in public, I dreaded the side eye of other moms.

The neighbors had started to shun the family since Salim's arrest became public, and she dreaded the extra attention.

Valencia sporting director Jesus Garcia Pitarch recently handed the 40-year-old with a dreaded public vote of confidence, saying: "Gary has only been with us a short time.

More important, this tactic will assure that any meeting with the dreaded public will go "in the direction that is most beneficial to the member," as the blueprint states.

But he argues: "It is absolutely not the case that people in the public services are dreading this, or saying 'oh my God, what is going to happen?' " He claims civil servants are preparing to make cuts without waiting for instructions from on high.