Word: dreadfully
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...ABRUPTLY, the film takes an unsettling plunge into gloom, as the beleaguered couple arrives in Buffalo to see Paula's parents (Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight...
...aides that the President "is an optimist," I say that Reagan does not come close to fitting this description. The President fears that an enemy will subdue the country or blow us up. As a result, he insists that we join him in this all-consuming dread. He could not possibly be considered an optimist...
...Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed at the animists." When Dillinger arrived 24 years ago, he remembers, "every aspect of the Dani world had spirits: the mountains, the gardens, the trees. The people lived in constant fear and dread." The oppressive atmosphere also bred wars between tribes. "That was the hardest part for me," says Lorraine, "watching them kill each other before we could teach them the Gospel...
Santa Claus must dread dealing each yuletide with Harvard professors and administrators. His elves probably flee the workshop when mail from these ivory towers comes in. Just to solicit these requests, the big red man has to untangle the University's big red tape. And when the gift lists do emerge from the laboratories and the libraries, they are dominated by intangible, high-browed items...
...several hundred others who had stubbornly refused to die" had been transported to Auschwitz. One morning, Pisar's number was called and he and his group were placed in a halfway barrack to have their numbers checked off as they waited their turn: "We stand closely packed in a dread silence." Pisar writes, "the faces around me flushed with the rage of helplessness, or some crazed hope of last-minute deliverance, or the hallucinatory peace of the imminence of death. At the back of the room, in a space clear of prisoners. I see a barrel of water, and alongside...