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When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!'
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
How do I tone my bingo wings?' is one of the most commonly asked questions that strikes fear and dread into a personal trainer's heart.
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
I've been told so many times that I should go to the gym to get my anxiety and frustration out. But it just makes me feel pure, concentrated dread.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.
It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
I know wearing a bikini is a thing a lot of women dread, but I keep up my training regime whether it's winter or summer, so my body always stays the same.
I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.
Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
My love of running developed when I got older. At school it filled me with dread and the idea of running around the sports pitches struck me with a nameless fear.
There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.