Spielberg hadn't really shot violence like this before, with this kind of unrelenting intensity and overwhelming dread, but he would again a mere six months after this film, in Saving Private Ryan.
As I write this, I am filled with an overwhelming dread about the inevitable death of everything around me and how little control I have over my own ultimate destiny, which could be wiped out as arbitrarily as someone swatting a fly.
For Rosa, death is overwhelming dread.
As we leave customs and sit by the exit waiting to be picked up, I'm filled with overwhelming dread.
Little happens -- days unspool in the leisurely, drunken rhythms of summer -- but an intimation of overwhelming dread is palpable in every scene.
Not since World War II, I confessed to her, had I awakened each morning to a sense of almost overwhelming dread.
Here's the closing thought, but if you need a laugh I encourage you to read it all: Global warming must be met with immediate, short-lasting feelings of overwhelming dread, or else life as we know it will truly cease oh, God, there's nothing we can do, is there?
His life, he said, had been blessed ever since he'd left Siula Grande; he'd made a name for himself as a writer and found happiness in his personal life, but now, coming back here, he was filled with an overwhelming dread that maybe, with the circle complete, his good fortune would disappear.
The overwhelming dread of classic Lynch is here in full force.
Yet, when I'm stood on the station platform, I'm filled with such a sense of overwhelming dread that most days I just want to stick my head in a panini press and squash-burn my fucking face until I die of pain.
California's prisons embody this overwhelming failure.
