Sentence examples for the mounting dread from inspiring English sources

A breath of hope amid the mounting dread?

But, as the action slips predictably into the alternation of present and past scenes, little sense is given of the mounting dread and inevitability that the script suggests.

Mr. Medlyn refers several times to trees, calling them "helpless observers rooted in place" and asks, "what does the mounting dread mount to?" He gets no answer, at least none that satisfies.

Some years later in the States, I experienced the mounting dread of the revenge visit.

The fusillade received a mixed response in the South, where leaders awaited the Freedom Train with mounting dread.

And all day, another series of massive air strikes; each towering black cloud greeted with delighted cheering by Turkish Kurds who have come to watch, with mounting dread, the assault on their Syrian cousins across the fence.

He recalled feeling a mounting dread as the boulders rolled in.

Kaufman expertly created an atmosphere of mounting dread, and the cast which included Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum was notable.

To reach them, however, you had to navigate tracks apparently designed to send all but the most committed listener fleeing in fear of their life, including the doomy cod-Slavic harmonising of Men Today Together and Apologies to Insect Life, which largely consisted of the line "Oh Theodore, you are the most attractive man" screamed repeatedly with mounting dread and hysteria.

Applying the techniques he had developed in Klute and The Parallax View to create an atmosphere of mounting dread (those films and this one are often characterized as Pakulas's "paranoia" trilogy), Pakula came up with a peerless real-life political thriller.

and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly "Do we need pasta?" Lovecraft never really goes anywhere, the pay-off is never as great as the build-up, but who can touch Lovecraft for mounting dread?