Word: dreadfulness
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Early into the first big number of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, “Another Op’nin, Another Show,” comes this classic expression of thespian dread: “Four weeks you rehearse and rehearse / Three weeks, and it couldn’t be worse / One week, will it ever be right...
...thirty p.m. is a sacred time in American life, but one also often filled with dread. Mom and Dad are home from work, Junior's back from piano and Sis from soccer, and everyone's washed up and ready to eat. We count on dinner as the family hour yet know that at any moment it could be punctured by a phone call from some scripted stranger hawking island vacations or aluminum siding...
...Kaplans say they understand that mathematics fills many people with dread...
...Bulldogs’ home turf naturally rolls in a manner that golfers throughout the northeast dread facing, so the strategy going in was to avoid catastrophe and know what to expect...
...years of Saddam's absolute rule will ignite an orgy of sectarian struggles and vendetta killings among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. They worry that this, in turn, will prompt the intervention of Turkish and Iranian military forces seeking the protection of their respective interests. The dread is that America's war will turn Iraq into "another Palestine," a consuming crisis that feeds Middle East instability for decades to come...