Sentences with phrase «dread of anything»

Years working as a sys admin in college in the Windows 95 an XP days left him with a lingering dread of anything from Redmond.

Because of football, he had no dreadlocks on his head (his helmet wouldn't fit over them) and no dread of anything in his heart.

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It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Once sealed, the tombs were perhaps the least likely of all places to be disturbed, for in Egypt as elsewhere, there was a superstitious dread of the dead and anything connected with them.

I know so many people are scared of the dreaded pie crust — but there really isn't anything scary about it.

With the match likely to be hugely significant in the fortunes of the two sides as they each fight to beat the dreaded drop into the second tier it was no surprise to see neither outfit being prepared to attempt anything remotely bold as the interval brought halt to the lacklustre proceedings with neither team making the vital breakthrough.

Throughout your day, you barely keep up with your to - do list, and the thought of anything «extra» to do fills you with dread.

That being said, there's that dreaded feeling of putting anything heavy on your face so you want to swap out heavy complexion perfecters for lightweight alternatives.

In one, Deanna's fear of speaking in front of a class, completely unmotivated by anything we know about her character up to that point, causes her to regress from sweaty - pit dread to phlegmatic panic to total, collapsing bodily rejection.

Whatever the cause, the scene takes on the laughable air of someone pretending to be out of breath, and instead of instilling a sense of dread or menace, it leaves one suspect that the rest of the film will be able to pull anything off.

We don't want to say anything more — and frankly, the trailer makes it difficult to intuit much, save for some mysterious affliction that seems to render people immobile — but our film critic A.A. Dowd caught the film at Cannes this year and praised it, saying Lanthimos «brings a thunderous, quaking dread to every square inch» of his latest project, like a «twisted slow - burn Cape Fear.»

While Romero never settled on any obvious shock / jump scenes and used his slow, shuffling zombies to create a sense of dread, Gunn and Snyder borrow the sprinting zombies from 28 Days Later, which, if anything, has a dulling effect.

Dreading anything having to do with numbers and understanding myself more as a «big picture» guy, Honan's systematic, clear, engaging and fun - loving approach to teaching exactly how to be a strategic school leader, with your mission in one hand and your financial statement in the other, not only dissipated my lifelong fear of «financial books,» but just as importantly gave me a skills set I was very confident using (and even, God help me, enjoyed) when dealing with all issues involved in leading a school.

I don't think there's anything you can do about that, but I know most authors dread the downside of the free promos, which are the bum reviews.

While it hurts the capitalist in me (shh — I said the dreaded C word) to give away anything for free, I know that is also the best form of promotion.

Tilly and Dominic are prisoners of the witches, and Spencer will do anything to rescue them, even as his dreaded wedding day gets nearer.

The dreaded mast cell tumour The danger of a mast cell tumour is that it can look like just about anything.

If you're anything like me, you dread the click - click of your dog's nails across the tile floor, knowing that it's time again...

It's hard to talk about how effective the game is at building atmosphere without spoiling anything, but suffice to say that even as an avid horror fan I still found myself walking through the corridors of the house with a sense of tension and dread.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

In founding the site, Dread Pirate Roberts claimed libertarian ideals, saying customers would be free to purchase anything without fear of violence or arrest.

If you're anything like me, and according to recent studies most of you are, one of your most dreaded life experiences is buying a new car.