Word: dreadfulness
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...recently announced its plan to make commercial air travel more tolerable over the holidays. It will open unused military airspace in an effort to decrease delays and ensure that Santa isn't stuck circling O'Hare come Christmas Eve, in what President George W. Bush called travelers' "season of dread...
...there's one thing older folks are said to dread, it's the prospect of a retirement community--that residential departure lounge from this life to whatever comes next. Filled with infirm neighbors and too-little stimulation, they are widely seen as one step above a nursing home--if only because you maintain your own little home--but not much more. That, at least, is the way they used...
...even if America had been spared that national trauma, the movie would still stand today as a revelatory meditation on one of humanity’s deepest and least tangible emotions: dread...
...only Marcus Stern’s ambitious stage adaptation of “Darko,” currently playing at the American Repertory Theatre’s Zero Arrow Theatre, could re-capture that dread. Sadly, Stern’s interpretation, full of manic energy and bluster, doesn’t arrive at any emotional truths and ends up as forgettable fluff, both confusing and confused...
...Watching the Republican candidates in the debate in Orlando, Fla., I wasn't filled with dread about the general election. The Democrats are going to nominate either a one-term Senator (Clinton) or a half-term Senator (Obama), neither with much in the way of legislative achievements. Against that, the GOP will offer one of the following: a remarkably successful two-term mayor (Rudy Giuliani), a business leader as well as Governor (Mitt Romney), a four-term Senator and war hero (McCain), an effective two-term Governor (Mike Huckabee) or a Senator with as much experience as Clinton...