Sentences with phrase «dread of dying»

Many who would like to believe in eternal life have a rankling suspicion that it is a bit of wishful thinking intended to ease our loneliness and dread of dying.

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We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the present And let out illusions die.

«Superstitious dread of the corpse of a person» who died of smallpox was common among Pulaya Christians and missionaries found it difficult to secure a «Christian burial» for victims of smallpox.

It's almost impossible to convey the intensity of the scene: the vivid blue sky, the daughter's baptism as her mother lay dying, the white towel that was placed around Elise as she emerged from the water, the combination of dread, sadness, hope, and even joy that we all felt as witnesses to the event.

And the terrible fear, dread, and insecurity in which so many of earth's people live and die, is gone.

I read the names and brief biographies of some of the very many who have died with the dread disease.

But she and her husband dreaded going back to their home church, being reluctant to tell anyone in their United Methodist congregation that their son had died of AIDS.

The potential seriousness of otitis media was first reported by the Greek physician Hippocrates in 460 B.C. «Acute pain of the ear with continued high fever is to be dreaded for the patient may become delirious and die,» Hippocrates wrote.

My Mom died on Mothers Day two years ago and since then, I have a sense of dread in approaching this particular holiday.

Who else is dreading being super preggo during the summer My plan to beat the heat is simply wear lightweight dresses that are flowy and give me plenty of room to breath so that I'm not dying of heat.

Following the devastating final months experienced by a dying woman and more specifically the loving husband who has taken it upon himself to care for her, it is meant to appall and terrorize, to evoke unpleasant sensations, to leave its audience suspended in dread, and ultimately, as is the primal goal of horror, to elicit catharsis.

This sense of dread stems partly from our assumption that something bad is always bound to happen in a Haneke film (Georges and Anne are favorite character names of his), but more because we know that sooner or later, whether it happens within the time frame of the film or not, there's only one way that a story of two very old people in poor health can end: these people are going to die.

Seeing those things take place in a movie is one thing, but actually experiencing a never - ending series of jump scares and mortal dread in video game form can be mentally and emotionally exhausting - especially when you inevitably die at the hands of whatever you're trying to avoid and have to do it all over again.

Sadly, no dread is conjured up by the entirely forgettable soundtrack, a shame after the themes of previous Die Hards.

Adapted from the Jesse Andrews young adult novel of the same name, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a bittersweet coming - of - age adventure directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (The Town That Dreaded Sundown).

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (The Town That Dreaded Sundown) and written be Jesse Andrews, based on his own book of the same name.

In essence The House of Meetings is an extension, in novel form, of Amis's 2002 nonfiction work Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, a reference to Stalin and the estimated 20 million who died under the Bolshevik regime between 1917 and 1933.

But I love a challenge, so I took on the dying beast and rode its final wave of popularity during the era when the dreaded Bec Hewitt wedding / Princess Mary / Jennifer Aniston / Oprah combo raised sales to more than 500,000 copies a week again, and the magazine was raking in $ 40million a year in advertising.