Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly of the Hudson Valley and vistas of South American grandeur--were greeted as both religious icons and triumphs of observation, fusing piety and science in one matrix. Church hit a peculiarly American vein of feeling: Romanticism without its European component of alienation and dread, a view of the universe in which God was in heaven and all was basically right with the world...
...some resemblances to Gravity's Rainbow. Both books are huge (the first edition of Gravity's Rainbow ran 760 pages). Both have truncated double dactyls (Duh-duh-duh Duh-duh) as titles. Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of songs or poems...
...What dread grasp / dare its deadly terror clasp...
South Alabama's tenacious defense and great work ethic means it is just the kind of team the free-wheelin' Wildcats will dread running into in the first round...
Networks may also dread a content-based rating system because of the potential embarrassment of seeing most of their programs listed in the paper with an accompanying V for Violence or L for Language or S for Sex. Think about what could happen if the industry ever lost control of the ratings, and someone like the editor in charge of the television listings decided to offer absolutely honest appraisals. The daytime talk shows would be rated PE for Pathetic Exploitation; the shopping channel would carry a UA for Untrammeled Acquisitiveness; and most sitcoms would be rated MT for Mindless Trash...