Sentence examples for quiet dread from inspiring English sources

I am filled with a quiet dread.

Directed by the talented sisters Sylvia and Jen Soska, the film combines gore, quiet dread, feminist conviction and a visual classicism with impressive, unbelabored dexterity.

These are promising ingredients for a plot, but Phelan undermines them with sinister scenes that create a sense of quiet dread but don't go anywhere.

The dignity of those people, that sense of quiet dread they carried around under their cheerfulness, informed this book more than anything else.

Mr. Mailer's "Executioner's Song" reflected the storm around Gilmore; "Shot in the Heart" rests firmly in the quiet dread of the eye.

This film — the second from the Soskas, and shot in their hometown, Vancouver, British Columbia — combines gore, quiet dread, feminist conviction and a visual classicism, often using a red palette, with impressive, unbelabored dexterity.

Impossible mission The development team all seem like fans of the Alien franchise, admirers in particular of Ridley Scott's scalding narrative of quiet existential dread and huge, looming monster horror.

But the quiet sense of dread that reigned at Ashe Stadium as Sharapova prepared to serve was quickly replaced by Sharapova's shrieks and the grunts of two remarkable competitors once the ball was put into play.

The international hotels here are starting to empty; the restaurants and bars are bringing their tables in off the streets; and a queasy, quiet sense of dread is coiling itself round Nairobi, as the country waits to see what - beyond the two grenade attacks this week - Kenya's military offensive inside neighbouring Somalia might yet provoke by way of retaliation.

In the opening poem, "Audiology", a poet's attunement and sensitivity is undone by waves of modern babble, "logorrhoea / In the dreaded Quiet Coach"; elsewhere, the mythical half-human half‑beast of "The Wendigo" comes to represent an abandoned rail-side wasteland.

On March 24th, Box filed for its long-awaited IPO and went into the dreaded quiet period.