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dread and growing
According to Dr. Dan Ritschel of the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland, The great Malthusian dread was that " indiscriminate charity " would lead to exponential growth in the population in poverty, increased charges to the public purse to support this growing army of the dependent, and, eventually, the catastrophe of national bankruptcy.

dread and until
Morgoth pursued his folk until few remained, and the forest of Dorthonion was turned to mazes of shadow and dread, Taur-nu-Fuin.
While normal doppelgangers have their own culture and have no real need to mingle with humanoids, dread doppelgangers can only reproduce by mating with humanoids ( usually doing so as males, as a " pregnant " dread doppelgänger cannot change forms until after giving birth ) and have effectively lost their own culture.
One of them commented, " The main thing every Lakes captain used to dread was Bridge 15 during the 3rd canal era, but in use until 1972, a railway bridge in the town of Welland with an abutment in the middle ...
The setting is intensified, until in the seventh repeat all voices continue the text simultaneously: " Angst und Not " (" dread and need " or " anguish and trouble ").

dread and last
In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters " rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... ( where ) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw.
" It repeats some of the details in the earlier report, adding that Dr Howard " was one of a dozen London physicians who sat as a commission in lunacy upon their brother physician, for at last it was definitely proved that the dread Jack the Ripper was a physician in high standing and enjoying the patronage of the best society in the West End of London.

dread and awful
:" About her shoulders she flung the tasselled aegis, fraught with terror ... and therein is the head of the dread monster, the Gorgon, dread and awful ..."( 5. 735ff )

dread and moment
Otto describes das Heilige with the expression " mysterium tremendum "— a numinous power revealed in a moment of " awe " that admits of both the horrible shuddering of " religious dread " ( tremendum ) and fascinating wonder ( fascinans ) with the overpowering majesty ( majestas ) of the ineffable, " wholly other " mystery ( mysterium ).

dread and when
Their mode of fighting with their chariots is this: firstly, they drive about in all directions and throw their weapons and generally break the ranks of the enemy with the very dread of their horses and the noise of their wheels ; and when they have worked themselves in between the troops of horse, leap from their chariots and engage on foot.
Widdershins go when the Moon doth wane, An ’ the Werewolf howls by the dread Wolfsbane.
One of Grattan's main grounds of opposition to the union had been his dread of seeing the political leadership in Ireland pass out of the hands of the landed gentry ; and he prophesied that the time would come when Ireland would send to the united parliament a hundred of the greatest rascals in the kingdom.
Not knowing that this new queen was indeed her stepdaughter, she arrives at the wedding, and her heart fills with the deepest of dread when she realizes the truth.
The dread of everyone who holds an elective office within a given district is that when the boundaries are redrawn, as they are from time to time because of population changes, he will lost a friendly town or pick up a hostile one and that either way the vote will shift against him.
They comically dread witches who know about them, with large amounts of dread being reserved for " the Foldin ' o ' the Arms ", " the Pursin ' o ' the Lips ", and the " Tappin ' o ' the Feets ", followed by " the Explainin "; one witch nearly panics them when she harangues them in their own dialect, which they called " the knowin ' o ' the speakin ".
House Do ' Urden lost the favor of Lolth, however, when Matron Malice Do ' Urden turned Zaknafein into a spirit-wraith by using Lolth's dread Zin-Carla ritual and failed to kill Drizzt Do ' Urden with him.
Abbott's central weakness as a judge was seen to be his support of James Scarlett, his leader when Abbott was a barrister ; " The timid junior, become Chief Justice, still looked up to his old leader with dread, was afraid of offending him, and was always delighted when he could decide in his favour ".
The dread of the Tatars was, however, still on people's mind four years later, when Pope Innocent IV dispatched the first formal Catholic mission to the Mongols, partly to protest against the latter's invasion of Christian lands, partly to gain trustworthy information regarding Mongol armies and their purposes.
Realizing that any strong emotion, such as fear before operation, produced shock, he attempted to allay dread by psychic suggestion, also endeavouring to prevent the subjective shock which affects the patient, even when under general anaesthesia, by first anaesthetizing the operative region with cocaine for several days, if necessary, before operating.
It is considered to be an act of torture when its primary purpose is sensory deprivation during interrogation ; it causes " disorientation, isolation, and dread.
An opponent of assisted suicide, Vlazny supported the unsuccessful repeal of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, saying, " Many have expressed a dread about what will happen when the power over life and death may be put into the hands of a society that is driven by economics, expedience and efficiency, a society that flees from suffering, weakness or limitations of any kind.
This ritual is conducted by a chosen dread doppelganger, and the Paridoners refer to the time when the killer stalks the streets as " The Bloody Jack Killings ", because for many years Paridon thought the killings were the work of a madman.
His childhood memories of stamp collecting ( including stamps from the Guinean islands ) are a welcome distraction from the dread and fear he feels when he thinks of the approaching Battle of Okinawa.
Terrifying sublime conveys a “ certain dread or melancholy ” ( p. 47 ), as when a tornado approaches.
The ' dread ' component refers to the fear of the Lord, as well as the fear inspired when Rastas first began to grow locks in the 1940s in Jamaica.
There lay he in when he had need, and was in any dread or fear.
He eventually shows Steve how he, Quaid, kidnapped a vegetarian woman and imprisoned her in a room with merely a steak for sustenance, only releasing her when she finally overcame her dread of eating meat in order to prevent starvation ; she eats the meat even though it has spoiled.
He wrote in his standard textbook An introduction to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry: " Many patients unable to tolerate a long course of ECT, can do so when anxiety is relieved by narcosis ... What is so valuable is that they generally have no memory about the actual length of the treatment or the numbers of ECT used ... After 3 or 4 treatments they may ask for ECT to be discontinued because of an increasing dread of further treatments.
As mentioned above, fear is used to assert control, for example Kestrel's fear of living in the dark and smelly sewer town, and also the dread which fills her when she sees the old children.
Shaundaular was destroyed in − 946 DR by the Nentyarch of Tharos when its leaders refused to join the new empire, and now it is haunted by hundreds of wraiths and dread wraiths.
It is nicknamed " The Monster " by some jazz musicians, as it seems to be the only tune some people know to request when seeing a Dixieland band, and some musicians dread being asked to play it several times a night.

dread and you
God reverses the covenant made with Noah in which he said, " The fear and the dread of you will be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.
When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.
The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.
Say: " Think ye to yourselves, if there come upon you the wrath of God, or the Hour ye dread, would ye then call upon other than God ?- if ye are truthful!
:" In a place like this, words fail ; in the end, there can only be a dread silence-a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent?
For I was 10th at first dash to tell you that I had lately received a letter from him so surprising to me for the inconsistency of every part of it, as to be put into great disorder by it, from the concern I have for him, lest it should arise from that which of all mankind I should least dread from him and most lament for I mean a discomposure in head, or mind, or both.
I thank you from my heart for your openness with me & I should dread the feeling that you were concealing your opinions from the fear of giving me pain.
I thank you from my heart for your openness with me & I should dread the feeling that you were concealing your opinions from the fear of giving me pain.
* Gomez, C., Through dread of crying you will laugh instead: disillusionment in World War I, San Francisco State University, 1999
The title is a quotation from Act III, Scene iii of William Shakespeare's play Othello (" Othello: And O you mortal engines whose rude throats / Th ' immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit ..."-Line 352 ).
You seem to dread the prevalence of Paine's opinions ( which in most parts I detest as much as you do ) while I am much more afraid of the total annihilation of all principles of liberty and resistance, an event which I am sure you would be as sorry to see as I.
An invasion from these is what you and I dread, and if we feel that an universal junction is necessary in order to repel them, the foundation of that junction must be founded in exclusion.
I thank you from my heart for your openness with me & I should dread the feeling that you were concealing your opinions from the fear of giving me pain .... my own dear Charley, we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you ... Will you .. read our Saviour's farewell discourse to his disciples the Gospel of John | Gospel of St. John.
Once admit the Union, once more acknowledge the authority of the national Government, and, instead of devoting your houses and streets and roads to the dread uses of war, I and this army become at once your protectors and supporters, shielding you from danger, let it come from what quarter it may.

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