Word: dreadfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said he often circles the neighborhood repeatedly before finding a parking space within walking distance. "I dread coming home around 10 p.m.," Edbrooke said...
...phone flap is the latest in a series of scares linking everyday electrical objects (hair dryers, electric razors, electric blankets, home computers) to one dread disease or another. Most of the concern has focused on the low-frequency end of the spectrum: the electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines, electric motors and video-display terminals. Cellular phones occupy another part of the spectrum. They send their signals using very small bursts of high-frequency electromagnetic waves, or microwaves, favored for most over-the-air telecommunications...
...preventive care like prenatal screenings and mammograms but also inpatient and ambulatory care, prescription drugs and basic mental-health coverage. High on Clinton's agenda: a requirement that insurance companies sign up all those who want to buy coverage, regardless of their health, a prospect that profit- minded insurers dread...
Leafing through the program for Skin and Bone before the show, I feared the worst. It promised everything I dread in a Harvard production. The play was set in "Italy or nowhere"; "William Shakespear" wrote the additional dialogue. Skin and Bone threatened 100 agonizing minutes of soul-destroying thespian pretense...
...While calling himself "a fairly hard-core scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think there is more to this universe than meets the eye." In somewhat the same vein, one admiring critic has described him as "a science writer fighting off a nasty case of existential dread...