Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That may be the trend, but the major share of the estimated annual $200 million to $250 million maternity-clothes market is still absorbed by those dread synthetics, which are usually cheaper and almost always require less maintenance. Blends bloom even at Bloomie's, to the surprise and chagrin of one Manhattan attorney who exclaimed, "Everything looks terrible. It's all polyester. I can't wear that to the office." Says Jacqueline McCord Leo, 35, author of The New Woman 's Guide to Getting Married: "You can't get silk...
...tenants in rent controlled apartments. The lack of an outpouring of opposition from tenants up to this point is a product of the excalating complexity of the areas of battle (as each side uses the legal system and dwells on technicalities). It is not a true measure of the dread fear that many low and moderate-income tenants feel when they hear about the potential loss of 1000 rent controlled units...
...scarcely missed. Here Dodgson, again under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll, is in full control of his genius. Gone is the Victorian treacle, the sentiment that seeped through his earlier writings. In its place is a premonitory feeling of dread. As always in Carrolliana, logic lies on one side and absurdity on the other. Between the two, humor leaps like a spark, illuminating the strange journey of an impossible crew (nine men whose occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there...
...about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death. It is the end of all searching. It is final, absolute extinction, in Auden's phrase, 'the dreadful Boojum of Nothingness...
...about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death. It is the end of all searching. It is final, absolute extinction, in Auden's phrase, 'the dreadful Boojum of Nothingness...