| 单词 | dreadful |
| 例句 | “I’m afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law,” Justice Strauss said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z According to the Christians, the Jews are blabbing their secrets to the Germans, denouncing their helpers and causing them to suffer the dreadful fate and punishments that have already been meted out to so many. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was an awful silence at the bottom of John’s mind, a dreadful weight, a dreadful speculation. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They seemed to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they were aware: some dreadful spirit of evil vigilance abode in them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The bubonic plague is a valid medieval fate; I do believe, though, that contracting the plague in this dreadful century would be only ludicrous. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart gave a dreadful leap and then, as dreadfully, seemed to have stopped forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Ada who swears to wear black and scratch out dreadful poems. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of her experiences here had been dreadful. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was in all her aspect, quiet with a dreadful quietness, as she moved down the aisle behind his mother and knelt for a moment beside his mother and father to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z For the Citizens' Councils, as for the Klan, the sexual perils of desegregation were intertwined with the equally dreadful menace of Communist domination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By the end of August, the hope of the nation began to turn into the dreadful realization that Garfield might not recover. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “And then get changed. Your clothes look dreadful and stiff with dirt, too.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t accept the sausage, and I had the dreadful feeling it was still because of that argument we’d had about distrust. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Thunder and lightning broke overhead, while in our house, a dreadful calm settled like clear water in a tainted pool. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He had feared that he would have barely strength to lift his master alone, and beyond that he had expected to share in the dreadful dragging weight of the accursed Ring. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Huge blocks of stone lay everywhere, piled against the mountainside, threatening to fall, strewn about as though hurled by giants in some dreadful battle. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Death to the dreadful who turn to flee. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mitraillette turned up to bring me my breakfast ration of bread and onions and their dreadful pretend coffee, I blurted out the whole sordid story. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Then, suddenly, both his hands were over me, not roughly, but in a dreadful, possessive way that I had never felt or imagined. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Buddy hugged his father, and promptly, with a dreadful brightness, came over to me and held out his hand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The idea was dreadful to him, he could not believe it of any of them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a warning signal, and it was telling her now that something dreadful was going to happen. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And as he reached the foot of the stairs and turned to his right he saw a dreadful scene. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was something terribly wrong with the world, and I knew in my marrow that something dreadful had happened during the night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Yet the slaves had to talk about this new and dreadful thing that had happened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z These woods were dense and dark and dreadful. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A dreadful, chilling whine is heard as the bombs are released overhead. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z To get to the door, we had to make our way through the dance floor: sweat and heat, blinking Christmas lights, a dreadful crush of bodies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “If he shouldn’t love back again, how dreadful it would be. He must. I’ll make him!” and she shook her head threateningly at the picture of the mischievous-looking boy laughing at her from the wall. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z At this dreadful thought, so casually raised, they all grew worried and fell silent. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was so dreadful a beginning that Ignatius almost knocked over the table. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A rally was held, after which the armed men went on a rampage, murdering approximately thirty people in a dreadful and grisly attack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d call it a bit of travel, and she’d never have to know the real reason for escaping this dreadful place. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The other Gladers murmured their conversations in hushed tones, an intense feeling of dreadful anticipation hanging over them like a patch of thick fog. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We stood back, breathless from our exertions, compelled as always to wait and watch the dreadful Carleton while he performed the ritual of inspection. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no answer, unless it were an utter silence more dreadful than the whispers before; and then a chill blast came in which the torches flickered and went out, and could not be rekindled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And she couldn’t shake the dreadful feeling that if she hadn’t summoned that schist, she’d be a captive of the giant right now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I considered Nelson’s view of what ought to be done with twins, and the dreadful consequences of ignoring that tradition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was shadowy and dreadful, and yet it called to him and threatened him and challenged him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z My friends don’t want me to touch them with my dreadful hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What makes Hacking’s argument ‘dreadful’ is that he takes one figure on its own, and that figure is the first in a long succession of attempts to measure the speed of light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So I knocked him down—I had to—and raced off, and the next thing I heard was this dreadful squealing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I got excited—and then just as quickly went cold, because something dreadful occurred to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By the time he managed to escape, he was covered with dreadful bruises. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Silently parting the ferns, they gazed in horror at the dreadful scene around the base of the elm tree. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “How dreadful! I’ve just realised—that table’s down there and were up here. What are we going to do? We’re here and it’s there. It’s an awful tragedy—awful! But oh, it’s terribly comic!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z ‘I know. The Lord has given me leave. But, Beregond, if you can, do something to stop any dreadful thing happening.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z More powerful than my fear of the dreadful conditions to which I might be subjected in prison is my hatred for the dreadful conditions to which my people are subjected outside prison throughout this country.... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so dreadful for those two brothers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Where did you come from? Ay, María purísima, but you look dreadful. You must be absolutely parched, melting away in this heat.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Would something dreadful happen to her when Mr. Curtain boosted the power? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Would it be so dreadful to just kill him now? she considered as they strolled. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But since reports of the dreadful things being done to the Jews are getting worse by the day, Father decided to sound out these two gentlemen, and they thought it was an excellent plan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The speakers behind him let out a dreadful screech. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of making his father proud, he would cause him dreadful worry. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It looked dreadful, and fear of what would happen to him stirred within Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the time he is delirious, and often he is terrified, always of the same thing—he thinks Edward is here and is threatening him with something vague and dreadful. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But take someone like Steiger: he has made great movies like the Oscar-winning On the Waterfront and dreadful movies like Car Pool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re the one who introduced my innocent being to that den of a bar. Actually, it’s all the fault of that dreadful girl, Myrna. She must be punished for her misdeeds.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Naturally. It is very dreadful. And the American lady tells me that the murderer was actually in her compartment.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature gave a dreadful squeal as Beowulf touched him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z "And now that we've got the water between us and those dreadful animals, what about you two humans taking off our saddles and our all having a rest and hearing one another's stories." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Every single one of the staff has been grilled by the captain, and tomorrow the captain himself goes to be grilled by his commander, the dreadful Nikolaus Ferber. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Sixteen verses, no more. And oh, Lord! I had forgotten how dreadful it is—no single tone of encouragement. Maybe Liza’s right. There’s nothing to understand.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They seemed like people Farmer had seen in waiting rooms in the dreadful public clinics he’d visited throughout the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And she said, “Why didn’t you write to me, Christopher? I wrote you all those letters. I kept thinking something dreadful had happened, or you’d moved away and I’d never find out where you were.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Have you heard the dreadful reports? he asked. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But he knew now that that had been part of the dreadful dream. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z There was no bearing such an “always;” and to break through her dreadful gratitude, Emma made the direct inquiry of— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Could anything be more dreadful?—but she was too upset to resume teaching or even to read melancholy German poems in translation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It meant dying in such pain that one’s spirit was charged with dreadful energy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was dreadful, seeing it there on the front page staring at me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Frodo and Sam, horror-stricken, began slowly to back away, their own gaze held by the dreadful stare of those baleful eyes; but as they backed so the eyes advanced. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z ‘I have looked on Moria, and it is very great, but it has become dark and dreadful; and we have found no sign of my kindred. I doubt now that Balin ever came here.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Something dreadful. These messages are connected to it, but they are only the beginning. What’s coming is worse, far worse—a looming darkness, like storm clouds sweeping in to cover the sky.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In the boiling water, the cat gave some horrible convulsions and a dreadful cry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Taisin began to tense up; she had a dreadful fear that she knew what the Queen was about to say. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If she wanted to hear someone playing at the organ, all she had to do was listen to that dreadful Lillian Woodward. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There came at last a dreadful nightfall; and even as the Captains of the West drew near to the end of the living lands, the two wanderers came to an hour of blank despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He shuddered and said no more, leaving Merry to tell of those last horrible moments: the pawing hands, the hot breath, and the dreadful strength of Grishnákh’s hairy arms. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “My poor dear, how dreadful for you! I ought to have gone,” said Jo, taking her sister in her arms as she sat down in her mother’s big chair, with a remorseful face. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Ah, we were wise to keep from her the affair of the dreadful night of Lucy’s sleep-walking. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “He was dreadful. I’m sorry he did that.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “No, darling. I won’t ever leave you for some one else. I suppose all sorts of dreadful things will happen to us. But you don't have to worry about that.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was an amazingly successful flight, and cheered us all up, even though I suppose we all still thought a lot about the dreadful fire. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A dreadful scene lay below her as they left the airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was a dreadful thing he was making me swear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “It is a dreadful letter. Gawaine was a good man. All you people who forced me to fight him, you didn’t see what a heart he bad inside.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “She just wants to lie about and read dreadful novels.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is nothing the matter with me. I am quite well; I am only distressed by some dreadful news which I have just received from Longbourn.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “N-nine, Magnificence. Foul work it was, and wicked. A dreadful night, dreadful.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The reader of Unweaving the Rainbow opens the book and is walloped with a reminder of the most dreadful fact we know, and on its heels a paradoxical elaboration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Oh dearie me. Did you hear that, m’dear? They must be living in our home at St. Ninian’s Church. Oh, whatever shall we do? Our dear little home, full of dreadful rats.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And that dreadful night was preceded by a dreadful evening. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Then looking around he caught sight of the strangers, and cried out in a dreadful booming voice, “Who are you who enter unbidden the house of Polyphemus? Traders or thieving pirates?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t know who he is,” Hermione said, passing Harry several curly black hairs, “but he’s gone home with a dreadful nosebleed! Here, he’s pretty tall, you’ll need bigger robes....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The dreadful word was stamped on his mind as if by a printing press on a sheet of paper, and the ink was red. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Something dreadful has happened, or is about to happen.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment—a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Natural indolence, you mean. It’s really dreadful!” and Amy looked severe. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Darling, what a question, but here goes: my nanny was a dreadful snob. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I could see some kids playing outside in the snow, silhouetted in black against the dreadful, salmon-colored sky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Who knows? But whenever we rouse him for a chat he seems in a dreadful hurry to get back.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Odd, she thought sleepily, that the house should be so dreadful and yet in many respects so physically comfortable—the soft bed, the pleasant lawn, the good fire, the cooking of Mrs. Dudley. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z From the darkness of the further end of the shelter came a dreadful moaning and they shattered the leaves in their fear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If they did, there would be the dreadful sound of screams. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not ‘dreadful’, but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She wondered if ever again she would escape from the sound of that dreadful breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He had some dreadful troubles trying to borrow horses from people, and finally ended up on a groom’s hackney, can tering after Galahad as fast as it could go. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z First had come the great wave, then Captain Ortega’s terrible unkindness, and now this dreadful blow: she must leave not only her family and town, but her country as well. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When Medea knew the deed was done she turned her mind to one still more dreadful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I shuddered now when I remembered the touch of her hand on my arm, and that dreadful soft, intimate pitch of her voice close to my ear. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And then, without warning, it swept over him, the dreadful truth, more completely and undeniably than it had until now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I can’t tell if Mr. Byrne really doesn’t notice how dreadful the food is, or whether he doesn’t care—or if his mind is simply elsewhere. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “He died, and home was a place to sit around or work around, waiting for death the way you might wait for a dreadful picnic.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a dreadful thing I do, yet it must be done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I apologize for not coming these past few nights. I had a dreadful bout of nausea and couldn’t leave my den. I hope I didn’t cause you to worry.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Guillermo gets up and stands behind me, looking over my shoulder at my work, which, I see through his eyes, is dreadful. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Then the Black Captain rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “It’s so dreadful to be poor!” sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The Red Arrow!’ said Théoden, holding it, as one who receives a summons long expected and yet dreadful when it comes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A moment later there was that dreadful man knocking again. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I can’t bear that dreadful woman accosting me every time I happen to walk by.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You know,” the guy continued, “just about every poem we received was one of those dreadful rap poems. But yours was so simple, so dignified, and so American. And yet, it sounded almost.. . British.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes’ reflection, however, she continued, “I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper. His disposition must be dreadful.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z "There's a dreadful moment for me just when the bull starts for the horse." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z ‘Wheel Don’t know commandeer, but it sounds dreadful cruel to me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I make my way through the crowd with another Styrofoam cup of the dreadful red marinade, trying not to feel left out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The noise outside had risen to a dreadful crescendo. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The children and the slaves looked and were silent, and there was only the sound of this dreadful, frightened weeping of the young girl. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Something is happening to him. Something dreadful has happened to him.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was getting very tired of those dreadful noises.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A bell clanged; and from the Watchers there went up a high and dreadful wail. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me with that dreadful hand!’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of my life is dreadful anticipation, a waiting for the other shoe to drop—at home, in classes, with the Court. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But this was a dreadful secret which Newton was at desperate pains to conceal all his life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After I squeezed my feet into those small, dreadful shoes, it was back to the sweeping, and then the polishing of the banister with soft rags and beeswax scented with lemon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard he was a dreadful coach and a fool of a man,” she continued as Ben continued to walk up the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what about all those dreadful video games?” she asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Kingshaw was rocking to and fro on the floor, holding his arms up over his head to keep out the dreadful caawing of the crows, and the sight of the puppet faces. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But as I flung open the bedroom door a new and more dreadful fear gripped me and made me turn and run back to the front door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a dreadful thing to think that he might have been the great Dulac, and us keeping him tied up and letting him call me Lord so humbly.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “How dreadful,” thought Milo as he slowed down the car. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the most dreadful rumbling noise was heard by everyone. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On a dreadful Saturday in August, she stopped in the bedroom to speak to them before she went off to work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were streaks of white in her hair, but the truly dreadful detail was that her mouth had fallen a little open, revealing nothing except a cavernous blackness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Compeyson’s wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most dreadful. ‘Why look at her!’ he cries out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Why did we ever come into this dreadful Forest? I wish we were all back at Crickhollow!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Xenophilius looked ghastly, a century old, his lips drawn back into a dreadful leer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Oh Matthias, thank goodness you are back safe! It was dreadful, not knowing where you were or what had become of you. I thought you’d never come back.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I liked him—don’t get me wrong—beautiful eyes behind the dreadful specs, and very lithe and powerful beneath the scholarly tweed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was because the sound in that room was the same sound she’d heard in that dreadful glittering chamber at Bolvangar, where the silver guillotine had nearly parted her and Pantalaimon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the road bent sharply eastward again and exposed them for a dreadful moment to view from the Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My brother was evaporating before my eyes, and I had to find a way of stopping this dreadful abduction. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But there was no time to enjoy it for at once a really dreadful thing happened. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Then a dreadful thought rendered him incapable of action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And Liza said with her dreadful simplicity, “You’re already pushed by your own contentiousness. You’re a mule of contention, a very mule!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their dreadful voices were like a chorus of dentists' drills all grinding away together. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “But still, you will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I think he was the most terrifying person I’ve ever met, and that includes Achren. He gave me a dreadful tossing about—just before he was going to smite you.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Although he looked harmless, I knew he was a dreadful angel counting out my many sins. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Must they all go the same dreadful way? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If we could just have done something so dreadful that they would have fled hell except us. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet already he was near recovery, while the more light-hearted Bluebell seemed even less the worse for the dreadful catastrophe that he had survived. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference between Bobby and Dickens’s good doctor was the voice: Manette’s was faint, “dreadful and pitiable”; Bobby’s was booming, ferocious and vengeful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Here was another dreadful choice, and he had no time to ponder it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They lived in the same one-roomed hut with their families, few chickens, litter of pigs, or with a cow possibly called Crumbocke—most dreadful and insanitary! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the scratchy towels and the dreadful and humiliating absence of dirt. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not. Don’t I always tell you everything? I was ashamed to speak of it before the younger children, but I want you to know all the dreadful things I did at the Moffats’.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Travelers to the village were rare, but occasionally a peddler would come through the village, selling "penny dreadful" accounts of grisly murders, fateful encounters, dire doings and remarkable escapes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Were the dreadful things whispered in the streets true? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You had no one you could tell about the dreadful way you were treated,” said Sister Inez. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The burn in my legs feels less like exercise and more like a dreadful punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Really,” said Henry, “I hate to ask you to do this. I think they’re dreadful movies.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Weightlessness can be a lot of fun, but in many ways it would be a dreadful nuisance if everything in our town had to be tied down to prevent its floating off somewhere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the whole dreadful story was repeating itself, and it was my daughter this time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Disturbed as if out of some gloating dream by his small yell she turned slowly the dreadful malice of her glance upon him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if the thread broke,” the Ladybug said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The dreadful knot of cold fear in her chest chilled her arms and legs, urgent pinpricks that pushed her forward. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I am a pest and I’m proud of it! Oh, I am such a shocking dreadful pest!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z And speaking of taste, had anyone else remarked upon that dreadful, dowdy number that so-and-so had worn to the such-and-such ball...? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And once again I see his point that life in Haiti can be so dreadful that if you live and suffer here, you have to look for multiple explanations for the unbearable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In such cases, Tom’s father withdrew into himself, as if tormented by some dreadful sickness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He turned to the man beside him and he said, “Do you know a character or two so that you may tell me the meaning of this dreadful thing?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “What a dreadful thought. It’s much too early for breakfast.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A dreadful sentence was about to be pronounced, something guaranteeing physical injury to her person as penance for innumerable offenses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” my dreadful smile stretching across my face, “thanks most awfully once again, it’s been so ripping...” using words I had never used before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Trolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted, but cunning and armed with dreadful weapons. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But his flashing spear never missed its stroke and the dreadful sound of cracking skulls was heard and the floor flowed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Now my horrific day tomorrow would be just that much less dreadful. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And Jo blushed at the dreadful ‘pegging’ which had escaped her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In that dreadful light Sam stood aghast, for now, looking to his left, he could see the Tower of Cirith Ungol in all its strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Now, isn’t it a dreadful state of things?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They were women’s voices, and they said words he didn’t understand; but he knew they were dreadful words. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes that had been so warm and compassionate just a minute before were now pitiless black stones, as dark and as dreadful as cold eternity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, darling. I know it must be a dreadful feeling to have nothing at all suddenly.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I highly approve of vaccination, feel it should be compulsory; rabies is a dreadful thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Ooh! You're a dreadful height," gasped Shasta after his first, and unsuccessful attempt. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Knowing how wondrous are the works of God, I thought that perhaps He—in His awful mercy— was speaking to me with this dreadful vision. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “When this dreadful war is over,” said her mother, “I want to know Absolutely Every Last Detail.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Thought- crime is a dreadful thing, old man,” he said sententiously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His rage was dreadful and yet Harry’s grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Frodo sat for a while and shivered, dreadful fears chasing one another through his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I tried to make out what it was, but his scribble was dreadful bad. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Julian nodded soberly, as though contemplating what dreadful fate the queen might devise if she were truly displeased. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Dustfinger had expected Capricorn to leave him and Resa dangling in those dreadful nets until their execution, but they spent only a single if very long night there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And this was a dreadful burden on him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Only the soul, obsessed with the journey it had made, and had still to make, pursued its mysterious and dreadful end; and carried, heavy with weeping and bitterness, the heart along. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Then suddenly there was a dreadful cry and a great shock, and a deep echoing boom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I do not know how they went on after that” “It must be dreadful to have a witch for a mother,” said Gareth when he had finished. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He had already changed into his school robes, had perhaps taken the first opportunity to take off his dreadful Muggle clothes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And he meant to look and sound—no doubt for a moment he did look and sound—very grand and very dreadful as he jumped, crying, "The bolt of Tash falls from above." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It was some time ago, my bus ride through the night, when the sun came up to that dreadful sight. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Pippin cowered back, afraid for a moment, wondering into what dreadful country Gandalf was bearing him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She did the pick and shovel work expected of her, and it must have been dreadful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a dreadful scene, like something acted in a tragedy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It will do,” said the peregrine kindly, after one of her dreadful pauses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were placed in jails or in the dreadful hulks of prison ships. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z “When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror; but as I looked they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Her hearing sharpened and she felt the dreadful noises in her bones: a distant screeching of brakes, the slam of a door, gunfire, the crush of boots, a muffled scream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Letters and memoirs of Confederate soldiers will reflect this dreadful campaign. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But worse was the dreadful feeling—I know we all had it—that we were completely at the mercy of someone we knew not at all, for some purpose we could not guess. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she feared the grandiose love that had stood so many tests would not be able to withstand the most dreadful test of all: living together. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The two of you can visit me at the hospital later if you’d like. I’m sure by then I’ll be stuck in some dreadful room.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z "What is it? There is something dreadful in your face." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z On his dreadful journey, after the shaman has wandered through dark forests and over great ranges of mountains,...he reaches an opening in the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I whispered the dreadful name before I could censor myself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a sound of dreadful confusion on the stage, the audience was in an uproar, and the curtain was quickly rung down. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z And finally, on that dreadful night, Estha who had decided that though it was dark and raining, the Time Had Come for them to run away, because Ammu didn’t want them anymore. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of the dreadful decision he’d made earlier squeezed his heart like a crushing fist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It's always dreadful and does nothing to win favor with the crowd. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He held out a slightly trembling hand, and in a dreadful blast of realization Harry knew that the goblins of Gringotts were aware that Bellatrix’s wand had been stolen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And in the midst of his flood of pleasure a sorrow came down on him and a sense of loss, of dreadful loss. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They stared at each other and turned quite white as they realized the dreadful thing that Digory had just been going to do. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z "It's a dreadful hat. Do get a good hat." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z You’re thinking of April/Dallas/Anything to avoid reading the last few dreadful pages of this dreadful book. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At the end of the year the nuns organized an exhibition and a party, and the dreadful works of art were sold for charity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A Barrow-wight had taken him, and he was probably already under the dreadful spells of the Barrow-wights about which whispered tales spoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sheer rose the dreadful cliffs to unguessed heights on either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Mercy on us. What dreadful thing will you do next?” and Jo fell into her seat with a gasp. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, she did a thing that was dreadful to see. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z On his bedside table were loose matches, unused stationery, a penny dreadful left facedown at the page he had stopped reading. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The idea didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t even think about my fencing future after my dreadful performance out there. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z You could be having a great day, and then, out of nowhere, dreadful images start filling your head. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Maybe they had passed the dreadful unseen opening, but whether that was so or not, suddenly it was easier to move, as if some hostile will for the moment had released them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She’d spent a dreadful night in the bathroom making sounds like a sea lion, but now that she was feeling better she was coming to relieve Martina from guard duty. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A dreadful fear passed coldly over Jo, as she thought, “Beth is dead, and Meg is afraid to tell me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He had told Alba that he worked as a jewelry thief and that the dreadful bag contained his picklocks and brass knuckles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Lee crosses and burns the bridge behind him, his escape into North Carolina and the heart of Confederate territory will be complete, and the dreadful war will continue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘How dreadful is this place! Let us go quickly!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There I personally undressed Transito, undid her dreadful hairdo, and was able to observe that with the years she had grown taller, put on weight, and become more beautiful. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He heads toward the gates, and after a dreadful few moments of indecision, I turn away from Veturius and follow him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The howling was dreadful and went on for quite some time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The words filled the air with a dreadful weight. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Briony knew it would be dreadful, that there would be hand-to-hand fighting in the streets and public hangings, a descent into slavery and the destruction of everything decent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “He’s been looking dreadful for days; I’ve been telling him to get a move on.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, I never guessed that you would be such a fun person to know. You were so hostile in that dreadful, tacky bar.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet I am afraid the dreadful truth is, Herbert, that he is attached to me, strongly attached to me. Was there ever such a fate!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Half of Gryffindor House seemed to have turned up, from first years who were nervously clutching a selection of the dreadful old school brooms, to seventh years who towered over the rest, looking coolly intimidating. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Consent, then, to his demand is possible: but for one item—one dreadful item. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Klaus had guessed that once he announced what he knew, this dreadful man would have been very angry, even violent. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z They dared not say anything, but the glances meant “Isn’t this dreadful?” and “We must humor him.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I knew from my great-grandma the government was capable of dreadful things. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She was so glad he didn’t hate her for the dreadful things she said, but took them so beautifully and was kinder than ever. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z When Beowulf had heard all the stories about the dreadful deeds of the demon Grendel, he determined to go and help Hrothgar, if he could. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The hard, cold ground pressed sharply into her shins, and the dreadful wind was worrying at her hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But I know that a dozen or half a hundred towns will rise up in injured wrath to denounce me with claims and figures for having much more dreadful weather than Fargo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is absolutely horrendous. This is completely monstrous. This is financially dreadful.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I stared at Young, feeling that he was making a dreadful mistake, but fearing him because he had, by his own account, the sanction of high political authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no men and only two women with dreadful, supernatural powers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then for three dreadful days she did not appear at all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Don’t use such dreadful expressions,” replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “They would never let us stay in this dreadful place.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The dormouse had faithfully carried out his part in the dreadful scheme; Cluny must surely keep to his word. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z ‘Back to the Black Gate and deliver myself up to the guard? What do you know against this place that makes its name so dreadful?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I looked at Ultima, who had not left my side since that dreadful night, and I guess she understood because she stood up from where she sat crocheting. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed months since they’d been living in this hell of terror and dreadful anticipation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew Doc had a girl in there, but Mack used to get a dreadful feeling of loneliness out of it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve never met a person,” whispered Eilonwy, while Gurgi snuffled in fright, “who could talk about such dreadful things and smile at the same time. It’s like ants walking up and down your back.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The beams of it entered into her wounded head and scored it with unbearable pain, and the dreadful infection of light spread from eye to eye. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z ‘The only hurt that it did to his enemy, I fear; for it is unharmed, but all blades perish that pierce that dreadful King. More deadly to him was the name of Elbereth.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z By focusing solely on Yakov’s death yet hinting at the disappearances of other boys, he had left the article open-ended like a penny dreadful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I have no idea whether this treasured egg was meant as a special cure for sorrow, or if they merely thought we needed the protein to sustain our dreadful journey. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They wished us all a good evening, and the rest of the way we walked in dreadful silence. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Ashamed, Your Headship, sir. Doesn’t want to be seen. She’s a horrible mess. Saw her running through the landscape up on the fourth floor, sir, dodging between the trees. Crying something dreadful,” he said happily. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The gruff voice was gruffer than ever, as the old gentleman said abruptly, after the dreadful pause, “So you’re not afraid of me, hey?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Who knows when another ‘accident’ involving millions of men will happen, an ‘accident’ that will be the dreadful day of our doom? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Most of those places don’t serve Jews. You enter the room, and they look at you like you’re a mangy mutt. Like, ‘oh, dearie me, who let that dreadful thing in?”’ The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I didn't say anything to Sandy, but in my opinion, the star system sounds dreadful. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After a time, in the dreadful silence and loneliness of the tiny cell, he began suddenly to wish Eilonwy would come back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, for almost any utterance that a rabbit in this dreadful situation could find to make, Vervain was unthinkingly ready with one or other of a stock of jeering rejoinders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sweet milk Madam made up? I figure it contained a sleep potion, knocked you out cold so they could spirit her away. I am dreadful, powerful sorry, but they sold her away from you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Stripes were considered so dreadful that they were not given very often. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “It has a dreadful stain on it, if you haven’t noticed. All of Fort’s books have just been beautifully reprinted in one volume, so I now have that.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Another him was a thought too dreadful to contemplate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He set up a long and dreadful howling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “The life of a scythe would be dreadful if we didn’t allow ourselves the guilty pleasure of a hobby. Mine is cooking.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Kakuma had been a dreadful place, isolated in the middle of a dry, windy desert. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dreadful but I had to laugh, I couldn’t help it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mutiny, insanity, desertion, cannibalism—dreadful things were whispered about the members of the Franklin expedition. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The doctors tell Theo that Vincent has been agitated off and on, has “been showing symptoms of that most dreadful illness, of madness.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Countless friends and acquaintances have been taken off to a dreadful fate. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But we bombarded Mr. Dussel with questions, and the stories he had to tell were so gruesome and dreadful that we can’t get them out of our heads. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z With a dreadful stroke Sam was wakened from his cowering mood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly, as I stood leaning against the table, from outside came a series of dreadful noises. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re awfully sweet to know, and I try and like him but he’s a dreadful, dreadful boy really.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The rain has been dreadful, with cloud at 1000 feet and visibility next to nothing in the river valleys where the mist hangs—no one could land here anyway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He could see it in the far corner of the tank, its dreadful tentacles with their hundreds of stinging cells, twisting and spiraling in the water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z This will be the fourth season Erin and I have taken a break, and we’ve always gotten back together in the past, so why do I have this strange dreadful feeling tonight? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One would have thought that nothing dangerous or dreadful had happened; and indeed the horror faded out of their hearts as they looked at him, and saw the merry glint in his eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s the means—the dreadful uncertainty of the means. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All the same, you felt dreadful, just knowing you’d fallen in her estimation, and you wanted to do something straight away to redeem yourself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That year was most dreadful and cruel for mankind over all the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing in front of a wall of darkness, and on the other side of it there was something unendurable, something too dreadful to be faced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “That dreadful dog!” said Miss Lark, looking at Andrew’s companion. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z And he tried to put on what he thought very grand and stiff manners, but as a fisherman's hut is not usually a good place for learning grand manners, the result was dreadful. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The weather at Glasgow was so dreadful that day that no one would take off and everyone was stuck there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At the house of the Shaper, people come and go, solemn faced, treading softly, their heads bowed and their hands folded for fear of sending dreadful apparitions through his dreams. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned three hours later, his rosy face transformed by horror into the pale mask he wore throughout that whole dreadful episode. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered what his aunt and uncle would do with them; burn them in the dead of night, probably, as if they were the evidence of some dreadful crime. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s all about stopping Voldemort, isn’t it? These dreadful things that are happening are all down to him...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “No charities either! We’ve had a perfectly dreadful afternoon. Go on! Shoo! I am not donating to the Handicapped Fund.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She would go into one of her dreadful rages if she knew the contents of your letter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They sat there in silence, old-lady hands clasped, and waited for whatever dreadful thing came next. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “My best friend’s father has Alzheimer’s. It’s such a dreadful disease, and it causes him to act so strangely.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “What a dreadful day this has been!” began Jo, usually the first to speak. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a dreadful moment when she uttered the fatal words, “Grind it!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Young man, would I be correct in assuming your, well, your interest in this business, this dreadful business, is personal?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “We can talk,” he reminded the brother and sister, “when once we are out of this dreadful place.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a summer of dreadful speculations and discoveries, of which these were not the worst. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z This dreadful man shouted at us in French. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Gypsy Queen’s sweet modier must have been heartbroken over the dreadful newspaper publicity. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He forced himself to think of Frodo, lying bound or in pain or dead somewhere in this dreadful place. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z With God’s blessing and the will of the people, I fought this savage and dreadful system of international espionage and colonialism. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And what I felt, standing there, was not fear or remorse but only terrible, crushing humiliation, a dreadful, red-faced shame I hadn’t felt since childhood. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “It’s going to be dreadful. But the doctor is right. You can stand anything. We’re wonderful animals that way.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And I know we make fun of Bunny for being such a dreadful Latinist, but he’d managed to eke out a pretty competent little English translation of the more recent entries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The few instances of it that I’ve had the misfortune to witness are among the worst memories of my life. And let me assure you, I’ve lived long enough to see some truly dreadful things.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z That meant Engel had gone to get the car out of the garage so she can take the Gestapo captain to meet his dreadful C.O. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there! so far off!—and the air so bad!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Quite dreadful. I believe I shall have a word with your guardian about this.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Even being Caesar’s daughter would not save her from some dreadful punishment if it was believed she criticized him, even in the privacy of her heart. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z They were even despairing faces: as if the people they belonged to had done dreadful things and also suffered dread ful things. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z But when Pa picked her up and tossed her into the wagon, a dreadful thing happened. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry enjoyed the breakneck journey down to the Weasleys’ vault, but felt dreadful, far worse than he had in Knock- turn Alley, when it was opened. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Mama gave me another one of her dreadful sermons this morning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’m trying to comprehend this dreadful truth when I hear the sound of approaching bootsteps. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The meanings were dreadful, but there was an attraction in speaking the words. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! Peace, peace, my love,” replied I; “this night, and all will be safe; but this night is dreadful, very dreadful.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only for the nonce. Storm’s End and Dragonstone are lightly held and must soon fall. And the Nightfort is a haunted ruin, a drear and dreadful place.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was bad enough having Count Olaf acting in loco parentis and announcing himself as their father, but to consider this man her husband, even for the purposes of a play, was even more dreadful. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Rather than imagining dreadful Others, he took note of what other people were actually like. The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow, One of His Biggest Fans 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Think Don Quixote without all the dreadful Duke and Duchess stuff, and with an upbeat Enlightenment feel. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Yet, he explained, if he were to place a microphone in a choice seat, say, in the center of the 10th row, the result “would sound dreadful.” Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z His video game designer imagines that it might be possible for players to undo this dreadful history and arrive at different outcomes, and it is perhaps this hope that leads him astray. ‘Level Five,’ Directed by Chris Marker, at BAM Rose Cinemas 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Most fans who saw this film were mad at Adams for making such a dreadful film. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z At first sight this looks like the most dreadful missed opportunity. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z The precise reasons for his death are uncertain, as are many other details regarding this troubling witness to the Holocaust, but the dreadful power of his stories remains undiminished. Chris Power 2011-08-25T11:15:00Z I did show him a dreadful novel I had written in high school. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z No longer in the horrible if occasionally nostalgic past, here was a warning or at least premonition of a dreadful future to come. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z So why is Hollywood returning the favor by making such dreadful movies for Latino audiences? Why are so many films for Latinos bad? 2011-01-28T15:01:00Z The fear that something dreadful could be lurking not far beneath the surface of everyday life draws us to this genre, where we can safely examine our responses to such terrors. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z Money: Bereavement is dreadful, and you should not be worrying about bills. How to survive the death of a loved one 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z The first one I recall was a group rendition of this dreadful song, with "Guides" substituted for "guys" throughout, and boys' names replaced with girls' names. Sibling solidarity, Girl Guide memories and celebrating marshmallows 2013-01-26T07:14:01Z The real drama takes place behind the scenes during the performance of a dreadful farce call Nothing On by Robin Housemonger. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z By maligning them as beggars, Mr Gandhi illustrated his party’s dreadful failure to comprehend the aspirations of millions of hardworking Indians. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z For years now, Cage has been parlaying his loose cannon charisma and credibility as an acclaimed actor into an increasingly dreadful body of work. Nicolas Cage: Even his arrest is a bore 2011-04-18T15:19:00Z Telephone – the one song on the album that does sound like a dreadful relic of a big-haired American Psycho era – comes furnished with a massive kickdrum that acts as a shot of adrenaline. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night six: Techno Pop 2013-02-13T12:05:42Z Yet for all Mills and Walton's air of dreadful concern, the overall effect of their installations is of a fragmentary charm. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z He joined the NBC television network in its infancy, in 1945, and stayed through the 1950s, devising makeup that would look natural or, if needed, dreadful under the harsh lights. Remembering Dick Smith, the Godfather of Movie Makeup 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z I wanted advice, but I was afraid that someone well-informed would simply tell me I shouldn't bother because I was incurably dreadful. The best gift for a writer is a good reader ? and a cup of cocoa 2011-03-22T11:27:33Z The world “gathered in dreadful suspension,” then “glided backwards into an atmosphere of broadening redundancy, intersected by a vertical and rather searing sense of abnegation.” Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z On occasion, the project sounds like a dreadful idea. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z Ohmygaard: could it be that something dreadful in Chávez's Venezuela might infect the US of A? Film review: Mega Piranha 2010-07-15T22:10:00Z "The tone that is in Hogan's addresses to Chancellor Wise is dreadful and suggests a leadership style that isn't about discussion but about 'My way or the highway,'" Zukoski said. Scholars call for U. of I. president's ouster 2012-02-29T04:36:00Z He did not know or did not know he knew – and that was dreadful. Michael Holroyd: writers in front of the camera 2011-08-19T21:55:13Z He's a dreadful snob, really, but of the most adventurous kind, drawn to life's underbelly and in thrall to extremes, but bored to death by mediocrity. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z Sara Stewart of the New York Post said the adaptation was rid of the "truly dreadful aspects of the book". Fifty Shades film 'better than book' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Anonymous editor, fleeing down the aisle: For me, intermission’s only value is a quick getaway if the show has been dreadful. Perspective | What we loathe about intermissions 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Unlike NBC's dreadful "The Playboy Club," the series doesn't feel like a good-enough-for-government-work re-creation of another era, with contemporary attitudes, hairstyles and music inadvertently creeping in. The lavish "Pan Am" is nostalgic bonbons for the mind 2011-09-25T17:26:00Z The Casual Vacancy, which one bookseller breathlessly predicted would be the biggest novel of the year, isn't dreadful. JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: vast sales, price wars and leaks 2012-09-26T12:35:49Z The manuscript was beautifully flawed, full of conjuring, a menagerie of tones, a clarity of devastation, the unspeakable spoken and made humane, the dreadful made beautiful, the erotic made quirky, the febrile details—the ebullient. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z It is hard, for the loyal follower, not to feel choked up, and a little dreadful, in anticipation of the end. TV Picks: 'Altman,' 'Poirot,' Cartoon Hangover shorts, 'The Killing' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z A lot of people would consider him a pretty dreadful dad, but I get the sense that you love him. William H. Macy on 'Shameless' and his respect for writers 2011-01-03T23:11:31Z On Thursday night Companhia Urbana de Dança, an all-male Brazilian company, promised something potentially dreadful — a blend of hip-hop, urban and contemporary dance — and knocked the ball out of the park. Dance Review: Sometimes a Little of This and Some More of That Add Up to a Lot 2010-10-01T22:56:00Z “The seriousness of the offence is not whether two little puppies – who look like they could give you a nasty nip on the ankle – are dreadful animals, it’s about the risk to biosecurity,” he said. Amber Heard charged with illegally taking dogs to Australia 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z And that’s what I wanted to do in a bigger sense with this book: to lay a healing hand on an illness that can be so chaotic and disorderly and dreadful. Nicci Gerrard: ‘Dementia is more scary when you try not to think about it’ 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Whether we are in favour or against the death penalty, it seems the trappings that surround the dreadful act draw us in. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z The works on the top floor – free, after years of a dreadful policy of charging entry to this one small bit of the biennale – are a lacklustre ensemble. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z These questions are at the root of why actual history and imagined futures fascinate us, or at least those of us who find a perverse sort of joy in forcing ourselves to imagine dreadful scenarios. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Smoke on the Water 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z She waited, for the slam, the rending or the rupture, whatever dreadful thing was coming. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z “We can’t put it the hands of fate finding a cure for this dreadful virus. We got to get on our knees and pray or whatever you do.” Stevie Wonder releases 2 new songs, gives health update 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s a very vulnerable experience, and it can be a very dreadful experience. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s dreadful, in part because it is anathema to the creative process, prompting you to never travel to Tijuana write glib, mindless cliches. Perspective | How to turn your writing into an obstacle course 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “The Bass Rock” is that potentially dreadful thing, a timely novel, though its subject — the violence men inflict against women — is evergreen. Women on the Scottish Coast, at the Whims of Male Violence 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s housed — a dreadful irony, now — in a historic Russian weapons warehouse, built in the last years of the 18th century on the orders of Catherine the Great. How the War Changed a Kyiv Museum’s View of Its Past 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z When we listen back for music that also serves a documentary purpose for this dreadful stretch, Bielawa’s will remind us how we got through. Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Whether you will find it pleasant, cathartic, thrilling or just dreadful is another question. Movie Review: ‘Charlie Victor Romeo’ Depicts Doomed Flights 2014-01-28T23:18:30Z "What a shock," she says, "what a dreadful thing to have happened." Dancing on the Edge: episode three 2013-02-11T22:00:01Z “They are, I think, rather dreadful subjects for the public view,” he said. Suffering for their art 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Viva’s middle-grade debut has a warmly familiar premise — a boy’s expectations of a dreadful summer away from home are swept away by new experiences and friendships — and a singular structure. Books to Give Your Precocious Readers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “This is the invisible cost of the Dahmer resurgence,” he said, “this dreadful mythology, this unexplainable need to attach to someone else’s horror.” ‘We Don’t Want to Relive It’: Jeffrey Dahmer Drama on Netflix Revisits a Painful Past 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z But it was Interpol’s dark, dreadful sorry rock n’ roll that set them apart. Ten Years After Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lines, Album Still Shines 2012-12-07T16:30:52Z We feel his strength of will, from the dreadful first day of Shiloh to the great risk of his Vicksburg operation and beyond. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “Mostly…I think my parents made major decisions drunk to avoid the possibility of ever doing anything either frugal or boring, which, of all the possible sins, are the only two they consider truly dreadful.” A river runs through it 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I did lots of dreadful work, and work that failed, and I copied people. He Makes Physics Funny 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z I hovered on its crest for one dreadful moment, and the bow surged into the air and plunged into the water. A relatively undeveloped island off Puerto Rico mainland offers solitude (amid unexploded bombs) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z At Venice she thought him mad, and she never recovered from the dreadful depression that followed. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z I demurred: "It's pretty dreadful . . .", and she shot back: "In what precise way does that differ from 'awful'?" Will Self considers the Coen brothers 2011-02-11T10:08:28Z She wanted to leave but he blackmailed her: if she left him, something dreadful would happen. Noir D?sir singer convicted of murdering girlfriend has parole lifted 2010-07-28T17:19:00Z The cleansing power of fire is exactly what we need to say good riddance to this relentlessly dreadful year. 7 ways to survive New Year’s Eve 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Ferguson’s fate, to put too dreadful a word upon it, became a subject of speculation from the moment, earlier this month, that David Letterman announced his own retirement from “Late Show.” Craig Ferguson, you will be missed 2014-04-30T23:01:44Z Despite being branded "total turtle turkey" by The Guardian and "dreadful" by The Telegraph, the reboot continues to be a hit with British audiences. Ninja Turtles climb back to number one 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z On paper, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” should be dreadful. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Either way this is dreadful, a record utterly devoid of even the tiniest enjoyable bit. This week's new singles 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z To me, not only was the look beautiful, but cornrows were also a short cut to avoiding the dreadful weekly hair pressings. Does Anyone Own the Cornrow? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z We have burdened you with impossible debts, wasted and polluted the planet that should have been your rich heritage, left you instead a dreadful legacy of ignorance, want, and war. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z I'd had a dreadful year and thought my career was down the drain, so I accepted. How we made: June Brown and John Altman on EastEnders 2012-12-10T17:28:13Z That film suggests both the deep and dreadful experience at the core of Lynch’s vision, the vast personal source of the mighty mythology of the series—and the artistic cost of its realization. “Twin Peaks: The Return” and the Search for David Lynch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z At the end of the exhibition, they invite people to post their comments and typically about 80% of people say the work is absolutely dreadful. Turner Prize winner to be announced 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “I just had an overwhelming, dreadful feeling that they were in a lot of danger,” Reneau told the Oklahoma station. Lawyer for Afghan girls’ robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z When Coover’s stories don’t work, which is about half the time even here, they’re dreadful — arid experiments that are the equivalent of lighting the wrong end of a filtered cigarette. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z There is something good about this, since public education in much of the US is dreadful, and competition might make it better. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z It competes for attention with the dreadful killing of Jamal Khashoggi, helping to push that political disaster away, even as the story begins to fade of its own accord, as every news story does. Perspective | The caravan is coming! And it’s high time to calm the rising media frenzy. 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It was a dreadful end to the holiday season and a chilling start to the New Year. “And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z We headed south through Manhattan, both feeling absolutely dreadful. Terry Pratchett: signing books was nearly the death of me 2012-11-24T08:00:53Z Can I really enjoy somewhere described by recent punters as "dreadful", "dire", "horrible" and "frightening"? Service stations: my secret love affair 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z A gardener later described how his wartime landowning employers believed it was their patriotic duty to prevent "that dreadful man" in Germany from changing their feudal slice of England. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z Gorgeously realized and sneakily terrifying, the play moves restively from the silly to the dreadful and back and forth again. Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It was slightly less dreadful than your vegetable medley, yes, but it just seemed un-American, and this is not the time for tolerating such things. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The brilliant strategy behind ‘vegetable medley’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Plus a little infill, some opening-out, more and better locations, added cleverness – I know, these are the things we rightly dreaded while awaiting the remakes of RoboCop and Total Recall, and they indeed proved dreadful. Memento remake: chance to improve the original or instantly forgettable gaffe? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Essentially the story of two country singers, one a rising starlet, the other in decline, on paper Nashville sounds like little more than a TV version of the dreadful Gwyneth Paltrow film Country Strong. From Game of Thrones to Revolution: the best and worst of US TV in 2012 2012-12-31T16:19:34Z When the dreadful knock on the door comes, they are stunned. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Rushdie, for all his full-throatedness, “never wanted to be a symbol,” Mr. Kunzru said, citing “the horrible irony of this inventive, playful writer” being defined for many by “this dreadful, somber threat.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z She looked at all the dreadful people in the world and thought that was the way she should behave. Richard O'Brien: My family values 2013-01-25T17:44:00Z Was it those dreadful trailers that made it look like a sad, slightly silly Tom Cruise vanity project? Summer 2014’s mixed messages about films Craik’s tough-love lesson — never overtly stated — is that one must strive to find satisfaction and happiness in life despite even the most dreadful afflictions. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z I was absolutely dreadful, but good enough to get a callback. Kevin Smith: how we made Clerks 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z There was a dreadful time when the parks were run down and became no-go areas, with women advised not to go to parks alone. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z It’s also about how dreadful Zoom can be. Perspective | Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Gene Siskel was more harsh in The Chicago Tribune, calling it "dreadful." “Hocus Pocus” knew what really scared us: reckless parents 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He also finds that a good deed can have dreadful consequences. In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler 2012-02-09T16:59:24Z Many of you will not have heard his name before, a dreadful truth that troubles me every day. Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero 2010-07-20T23:10:00Z What went wrong was that the movie was dreadful; worse, it was the kind of dreadful no one wants to see. Box Office: Hop Bounds Over Arthur in the Battle of the Brands 2011-04-10T06:00:00Z But Amber so often comes off as such a dreadful mate that frankly, the less of her, the better. 'The Worst Year of My Life' is a dispiriting romantic dramedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z A song that is notable for being utterly dreadful, Turbulence is a turgid ode to, like, life and stuff. This week's new singles 2011-07-15T23:07:04Z She started writing only in "the final few appalling dreadful months", before she gave up drinking. Marian Keyes: a life in books 2012-12-14T22:55:02Z But the dreadful act of self-immolation seemed a new kind of protest then. Malcolm Browne: man behind iconic burning monk photograph dies aged 81 2012-08-29T06:00:07Z Also my Channel 5 signal is dreadful, which may or may not improve matters. Big Brother moves next door 2011-04-06T09:49:38Z Florence’s lifelong dream is to perform in Carnegie Hall, despite her dreadful singing voice. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z One dreadful disease and an avalanche of benefactors. Review: In ‘Batkid Begins’, a Boy’s Simple Wish Whips Up Frenzied Adulation 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And it is true that almost nothing seems more welcome after a year-and-a-half of staring at ourselves in the dreadful unforgiving mirror of Zoom than the vision of exotic creatures. Post-Lockdown Paris? Think Youth and Sex. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z As for gangster films, with their dreadful middle-class cringe, and uniquely distasteful celebration of working-class criminal mores, the less said the better, which is why The Sopranos was such a breath of fresh cordite. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z There are moments of redemption, but mostly the women are just dreadful. 'Walter White in power heels': UnREAL is evil, twisted, unmissable TV 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z No matter what dreadful things Stuart did or what horror he suffered, he was not to be mollycoddled or monstered or let off any hooks. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z These people lost their child in a dreadful manner. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Urban planning is tyrannical, but lax planning regulations are worse; the enclosures were dreadful, except that they kept England looking beautiful; private ownership is excellent, except when the owners have bad taste. How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z After years of dreadful press that defined Athens as a broken-down capital prone to fiery riots, the city’s self-confidence and creativity are stirring again. 36 Hours in Athens 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z To some extent, your hands are tied here because the next Bond title will be staggeringly dreadful. What makes a perfect Bond? 2010-04-20T10:24:00Z The first year, we were dreadful – we lost every match. My friend Sodiq Adeojo dreamed of a different life 2012-12-13T10:00:01Z What I wanted to do was have these working-class characters where we’re not looking at them and saying, ‘Isn’t it a shame? Wasn’t it awful? Wasn’t their life so dreadful?’ Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Photograph: Alan Cleaver It suffered a dreadful fire in March last year and was badly damaged. Come and scribble on Wordsworth's walls - courtesy of the National Trust 2012-06-12T08:00:00Z One woman speaks for many of them when she comments, “I can’t be held responsible for every dreadful remark that escapes my mouth.” Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “He saw it out in Hollywood at a dreadful screening. Afterward, he said: ‘We’ll have another screening and I’ll write down all of the things we have to change.’ Film-maker DA Pennebaker dies aged 94 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z As Mr. Carlson recounts it, the decision was prompted by a breakfast with the Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who described Yahoo’s women’s site as “dreadful.” ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The director for this version is Michel Hazanavicius, who charmed Cannes in 2011 with “The Artist” and here paves a road to hell with good intentions, miscasting, reductive politics and dreadful writing. Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Enlivens Cannes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Today, irrevocably linked by history and geography, but wholly distinct in character, the three towns remain tourist oases from the dreadful drug-related violence erupting elsewhere in the country. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z Most of the music it produced was dreadful, but unlike that which followed, it was at least dreadful as a result of trying to be new. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z And the longer I didn't read it, the more dreadful this famed carnival of desire and mayhem became in my imagination. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z I hope not, that was a dreadful place. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z Not all the stories are so dark, and in some cases, the girls resist dreadful circumstances with escapist fantasy. Review: In Ensler's play, girls just wanna be free 2012-11-13T02:06:08Z It’s plain to see that this is dreadful, and one spends the opening scenes praying it will fall away, that God will exit and Butler will simply settle into his character’s reminiscence. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Last year was a pretty good one for Broadway musicals, if by “pretty good” you mean “not as dreadful as usual.” How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z We had left Dad before: he was an alcoholic – lovely and charming sober, dreadful when drunk. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The script tells us what’s happening in the world, but the dreadful facts of looming internment are understated, even with a sinister, vulgar white character invading the home. Review | ‘American Spies,’ examining a Japanese American family in 1941, doesn’t quite find its footing 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z In November, only a month into the lockout, he sent a letter to both management and players, noting that he was “desperately anxious” about the orchestra’s future and urged “a resolution of this dreadful situation.” Critic’s Notebook: Lockout for the Minnesota Orchestra Grows More Painful 2013-05-12T21:48:05Z As I write this, there’s a man with some dreadful machine in the hallway outside our apartment. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The show is so joyously clever and surprising, in an era where many other network comedies are cynical, predictable or just dreadful. The TV Surprises and Snubs of the 2018 Golden Globes 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z "The church has been brought into dreadful disrepute by lies and blasphemies against the holy spirit … There is a chance now for the church to be rebuilt and made fit to house the holy spirit." Sinead O'Connor congratulates pope on his 'greatest act' – resigning 2013-02-12T11:44:29Z I spent 17 months in solitary confinement, living under really difficult conditions; the food was so dreadful I lost 30lb. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z To put it into context, a lot of novels are dreadful; most are ordinary. Scout grows up 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The term 'penny dreadful' refers to cheap Victorian-era books containing tawdry, graphic stories of monsters and murder, and the show is loosely inspired by the tales of horror that thrilled working-class readers. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z It would've been dreadful not to, I'm not exaggerating when I say I think it would've been really bad for the nation if we'd not had "Bake Off" to watch, and a few other things. Ageism, affairs and Mexico Week: Getting personal with Prue Leith of "Bake Off" 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z They would enrol year after year just to get away from their dreadful marriages. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.” Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour,’ From New Wave to New Stardom 2013-01-02T00:21:01Z Since late January, the Wizards have played at a dreadful 5-13 pace. Are the Wizards in it for the long haul? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Airing in the recent wake of the fall of Roe, the film takes an "amusingly dreadful approach" to pregnancy and motherhood, the Wall Street Journal writes. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z That old-world of Havana is in fact the grotesque indictment of the dreadful mismanagement of Cuba, it is a vivid example of the grinding poverty and soul-destroying hopelessness of life under a Communist dictatorship. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Both shows got dreadful reviews and struggled at the box office. David Mamet, Kathie Lee Gifford suffer losses 2012-12-05T06:46:08Z A gorgeous “cottage” — without a single comfortable chair — provides them an annual refuge from the dreadful heat of New York City. Review | Is the end of an American dynasty a real tragedy? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “One of the most dreadful things about the last three-plus years is how quickly you have to move from one story to the other because something else insane has happened,” he said. Seth Meyers Takes a Break With ‘Strange Adventures’ and Monty Python 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z His method is to imply a dreadful strangeness rather than a straightforward working-out; conflict and tumult blind-side his characters rather than staring them full in the face. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-07-20T11:00:01Z Buddy too is a source of perpetual comedy; from his turkey-gizzard manhood to his dreadful fear that he drives women to suicide, his awfulness is set down with sardonic glee. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z Police bribery, from cash-stuffed envelopes to dummy accounts set up for regular payments, may explain how some reporters and photographers manage to be on the scene whenever something dreadful happens to someone important. Police and press: ties under scrutiny in Britain 2011-07-14T17:33:08Z "Yes Scotland", Scotland's main pro-independence movement, parroted the letter's language to say Scots didn't value being governed by a British government it described as "dreadful". Jagger, Hawking join big celebrity push to keep Scotland in the UK 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z "It was truly dreadful," Brenton says now, guffawing at the memory. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z And not constantly talk about her troubles, which were dreadful. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z "The Last Airbender" found a solid audience despite dreadful reviews from critics, who found the plot muddled and the dialogue stilted. 'Twilight' falls sharply but makes it to $161M 2010-07-04T17:12:00Z If there's one thing that makes people "immune to dreadful things that happen in history" more readily than treating them light-heartedly, it's forgetting about them altogether or trying to pretend they didn't happen. Can an equation find out whether a subject is suitable for risk-free levity? 2012-07-28T23:06:06Z I had a dreadful, sorrowful production of "Grease" in Australia. ArtsBeat: Jonathan Banks of ‘Breaking Bad’ on Sunday’s Episode 2012-08-27T16:17:51Z And when Henry has dinner with the in-laws, we watch as he joins the dreadful beckoning loop of family life: turning into our parents over oozing mini chickens. Eraserhead: the true story behind David Lynch's surreal shocker 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Whenever Vanessa was possessed by the Devil—which happened with notable regularity, as befits a penny dreadful—the first horror was always the moment you realized how easily the Devil handles Victorian small talk. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Among the most dreadful episodes of the pandemic year in the art world was the precipitous layoffs of museum educators; everywhere from MoMA to MOCA, those closest to the public got fired first. 10 Ways for Museums to Survive and Thrive in a Post-Covid World 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z With his dashing poker face, he leads New York society of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in an odd charade about the pleasures of Florence’s dreadful voice. Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Imperialism and orientalism and talk of noble savages may, quite rightly, carry dreadful connotations today. Il turco in Italia; Felicity Lott, London Conchord Ensemble 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z The women and the men may be oppressed by the same politico/military/economic establishment, but the situation of the soldiers appears more dreadful. Tull – review 2013-03-10T00:05:32Z “It is Grand Guignol, it is penny dreadful.” Josh Groban to Star in ‘Sweeney Todd’ Revival on Broadway 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z True to form, contains its fair share of clunkers, led by this dreadful couplet from the brash “Hunter”: “Duck Dynasty’s cool and all / But they got nothin’ on a female’s call.” On G I R L, Pharrell Is Eager to Please — and He Does 2014-03-03T17:33:24Z "There was a lot that was good about it, but I wasn't happy with the script - there were one or two dreadful lines that I couldn't have written - even under torture." Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z The intriguing, but ultimately slight “The World Is Full of Secrets” never shows this dreadful event. ‘The World Is Full of Secrets’ Review: Teen Tales of Terror 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “Anne and I were having dreadful violent fights,” he wrote to a friend, “slamming each other around, smashing every object in the house — the kids were running in terror.” Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z The booty-baring emcee also shared that in her early days, she was dreadful employee when she worked as an office manager and sassed customers as a server at Red Lobster. Nicki Minaj, Jimmy Fallon swap awkward yearbook photos 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It is still frequently held to be one of the most dreadful films ever made. Jim Goddard 2013-06-27T14:51:28Z She's just flown in from Stockholm, where she says the weather is even more dreadful, and she seems tired. Lykke Li: 'The slightest remark can get me crazy' 2011-03-06T00:09:32Z He hurled Atlas's dreadful "I bear the unbearable" at the audience in tones of accusatory fury, beneath which we sensed the overweening pride that caused Atlas's downfall in the first place. Christopher Maltman/Graham Johnson 2010-04-22T20:50:00Z As the title, The Made To Measure Murders, suggests, dreadful things are perpetrated with a pair of tailor's shears, so expect plenty of tomato sauce. Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z Bellow's Ravelstein was dreadful, Roth's The Human Stain muddled and sometimes embarrassing. Last rites for the campus novel 2013-04-01T11:31:04Z The second shots, destined for the number two negative, were used as backup, “often used as insurance material in case something dreadful happened, or used in foreign prints,” said Dixon. Early Hitchcock silents provide glimpses of a master in the making 2013-07-18T17:18:57Z “Very” is a dreadful word, for two reasons. Perspective | And the world’s biggest abuser of the word ‘very’ is ... 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The political comedy is so good, but you say that an hour of political comedy would be pretty dreadful. David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Discussing Brown's dreadful paranoia in February 1996, Blair complains that it "was like dealing with a girlfriend who every time you looked at another woman thought you were having an affair with them". The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z It isn’t simply the information which is terrible, it is the dreadful catharsis of its expression, coming after so much obfuscation. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Well, the Hollywood dream factory’s ability to spin gold into lead is legendary, but “dreadful” is probably the wrong word. Bill Murray and Robert Downey Jr.: Great actors trapped in dumb fables 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This series follows those same rules, but the deaths here don't happen right away, prolonging the dreadful suspense. Hide your muscular calves! On "Yellowjackets," sex is violence 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z If you are one of the few who saw the dreadful “Creature,” released on Sept. | 'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil': Eli Craig?s ?Tucker and Dale vs. Evil? ? Review 2011-09-30T00:40:58Z “Truly dreadful,” a Chicago Tribune book critic sniped. Cornelia Guest Leaves the Debutante Life Behind 2012-08-17T20:45:23Z Beefheart was striking, he dominated a room and had huge presence; I was struck by his piercing eyes and dreadful skin. The night Captain Beefheart drove me into the hills in a red Corvette 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In White’s telling, the movie is dreadful, yet rather than offending gays, it becomes a cult classic, inspiring viewing parties in gay bars nationwide in which everyone dons a princess mask. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The dreadful accident off the coast of Louisiana was one thing, but the wider principle of sponsorship by oil companies in particular, and large corporations in general, is another. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z Admissions is a daunting process each year—joyful, dreadful, exhilarating, overwhelming. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The usual suspects pop up on the screen, and she has thoughts: Roger Stone is “such a dreadful person,” and so is Stephen Miller and Mark Meadows. Meet the fans who follow the Jan. 6 hearings as must-see TV 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Alas, her exploits are hampered by the dreadful sound, and lung-busting rockers like Bad Influence only become recognisable when the crowd take up the choruses. Pink 2010-06-13T21:46:00Z “It is dreadful to think what he has to reconcile.” Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It's especially good at explaining the awful gulf between the expectations of the keen young recruits and the dreadful reality that awaited them. Paul Dowswell's top 10 non-fiction books about Britain in the first world war 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z In its first three seasons, which aired from 2001 to 2005, “Project Greenlight” was best at demonstrating both the smarm and heartbreak that color the dreadful compromises between art and commerce. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “Despite what we’ve read — that tourists can still use credit cards, that they are not affected by this dreadful situation — we became concerned that this is not the summer to go to Greece,” he says. Is your trip to Greece in jeopardy? Maybe, or maybe not. 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The kind of regret that brings people to his consulting room is “paranoid and persecutory. It’s: ‘Oh God, I’m so terrible, I’m dreadful,’” he says. Regret can seriously damage your mental health – here's how to leave it behind 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z I saw the writing on the wall, and I said: This isn’t going to last, and if it does, it’s going to be dreadful.” Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest 2013-07-19T18:43:48Z Fear is a powerful and dreadful thing, a toxic and odorless gas that permeates all thought and all substance. The Year in Fear: From Ebola to street violence to Comrade Kim 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z “It was dreadful. It was criminal. It was unforgivable.” Diamonds have a dirty secret. But there's a climate-conscious solution 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “Having a seafood platter on your own is scraping the barrel — even Françoise Sagan couldn’t have described that, it’s too dreadful for words.” In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Yet as Aids did its dreadful work – this was the 1990s – I watched nuns offer compassionate care to the dying. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z And while they take up 15 of the movie’s 156 minutes, they linger, casting a long, dreadful shadow over everything that comes after. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z So we meet up later and he's in disguise – a dreadful one, with a large fedora hat, long brown raincoat and fake beard. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z What surprised me was the term, “depression,” which seemed far too languid to apply—an insipid “wimp of a word,” as Styron himself put it, for “a dreadful and raging disease.” Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer 2014-04-12T12:15:00Z “The only things that aren’t dreadful are the prints, but why not buy an original piece of art instead?” Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It is about a dreadful murder that led to a successful heart transplant. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: His name sounded familiar for some reason. And then it hit me. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But when I went to hear them play, at some dreadful pub in a shopping mall, I understood that in some way I could not articulate as the most Irish thing ever. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z This is tough on him, but for us it helps create an atmosphere of rising menace, the sense that dreadful danger lies just at the edge of his comprehension. Floundering by Romy Ash - review by Robert Drewe 2013-06-14T07:04:46Z That a penny dreadful character originally meant just to shock and sicken becomes instead a pitiable victim is a testament to the power of music to make bad guys, if not good, compelling. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The power of this question comes not only from the dreadful circumstances in which it is made, but also from its authenticity as an expression of adolescent feeling. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Are there things so powerful, so dreadful, that they are beyond the power of literature to describe? What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z This dreadful and attractive figure is embodied to perfection by the young actor Sylvain Levitte, whom we first see contemplating his own impish and impious image via the lens of a compact video camera. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z And up to the very least good of all is the dreadful Celia, whose awfulness is so downright cinematic that you're rooting for this book to be made into a movie. Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z But Jolie already has two feet in the directing pool and is more interested in giving us deeply personal projects which may or may not be utterly dreadful. Maleficent 2: the worst example of Angelina's Jolieland syndrome 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z When people do appear in poems, Mr. Levine added: “Their greatest terror is that they’ll become like their parents and maybe do something dreadful, like furnish the house in knotty pine.” An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z A series of his text paintings on monochromatic grounds differentiates between “woeful gray,” “ragged gray” and “dark ... and dreadful gray,” locating each shade within the Pantone color system. Art in Review: BIRGIR ANDRESSON AND POUL GERNES: ?Bolt Out of the Blue? 2011-07-14T22:25:18Z The sense of danger is palpable, as is the sense of misery after the most dreadful scenes. Review: War Made Terrifyingly Palpable in ‘Citizen Soldier’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In her Times review, Manohla Dargis said Kim’s turn “as the mother of all nightmarish mothers” conveys “a dreadful manifestation of a love so consuming it all but swallows the world.” For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z These are undeniably heartbreaking stories that reflect the actual, dreadful experiences of millions of people caught in America’s poverty-and-prison industry, a machine greased by our inane drug laws. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It's certainly not for our looks, it's a dreadful mistake to be born exquisitely beautiful because it wears off by 28. Actresses collect degrees together 2013-07-02T16:54:32Z I call them up, hoping they'll spit with rage down the phone about the dreadful woman who came swanning into their lives in her big Audi. TV review: Country House Rescue 2011-08-18T20:05:01Z But there was that long and dreadful detour in between into the politics of white supremacy, which would provide the Republican Party with a blueprint for Southern conquest. Shirley Chisholm, the Democrats’ forgotten hero 2012-09-09T19:00:00Z It was dreadful, of course, awful and hammy. “Robert De Niro bit my face off!”: How I learned to work with our greatest living actor without coming unglued 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Van Helsing educates Victor in the ways of vampires with the help of a penny dreadful called “Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood,” and then practically adopts the young doctor on the street. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: It's a Bloody Father's Day 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Most of these stories have a light touch, even when they deal with tense or dreadful subjects: lovers’ quarrels, betrayal, even suicide. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Veep, the comedic antithesis to The West Wing, dreamed up many appalling scenarios and characters, but nothing so dispiritingly dreadful as a Trump. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The action in “Adar” is mostly spread between three locations: the Harfoots’ camp, a dreadful orc lair, and a grand island kingdom that could prove pivotal to the future of Middle-earth. ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 3: Island Time 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z It would be pleasant to think that this dreadful, heartbreaking story will at least do something to puncture the popular stereotype of teenage mothers as feckless scroungers. TV highlights: 11/07/2011 2011-07-10T22:00:01Z Sadly, the world is always offering up something dark and dreadful. Jenny Holzer – portrait of the artist 2013-02-05T17:39:49Z They’re also actors in the dreadful little historical pageant that the place puts on for tourists. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z And a bitter contrast to some of the dreadful events described just as vividly elsewhere in the novel. 'Perla': Novel revisits the dirtiest of wars 2012-04-26T20:06:03Z “The Rules of the Game” is screened in a dreadful copy of sub-YouTube resolution, with the night sky over Octave and his wealthy friend Christine pixelated into splotches of grays and black. Dad Left a Big Impression: The Renoir Family Inheritance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z More to the point, it's the border between the Ben Affleck that was and the one that is, and a code-breaking cypher for why "Deep Water" is so uncomfortably, stupidly dreadful. Has Ben Affleck's"Deep Water" left you asking why? Look back at "Gigli" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z What is she doing in this dreadful suburb with a husband she forgot how to love and a son she cannot reach? Tilda Swinton shines in perplexing drama 2011-05-12T22:38:55Z I remember reading the novel Notes on a Scandal and thinking: I would love to play that woman, to try to find a humanity in that dreadful person. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z He's plainly awful – give him food that he doesn't like and he'll just hurl it on the floor like a cross between a dreadful toddler and a gargoyle of a Kenneth Grahame character. Has MasterChef lost its X Factor? 2011-02-17T11:34:46Z Yet despite its mostly dreadful rulers, the vast land did begin to modernise. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And so — dreadful as it is to say — we know what will. Perspective | The connection between hateful rhetoric and terrorizing acts is glaringly obvious, but some refuse to see it 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The BSO certainly was not sounding its best; there was some dreadful intonation between the woodwinds and an offstage trumpet in Ottorino Respighi’s “Church Windows.” Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Strathmore celebration falls a bit flat 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Leichter has managed to blend the oddball and the existential into a tale of millennial woe that’s both dreadful and hilarious at once. Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Traffic was dreadful to the point that Brooks thanked the crowd twice for dealing with it. Garth Brooks at Tacoma Dome review: a joyous romp through his greatest hits 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The nine here are mostly dreadful, their derivation from the sophisticated paintings and collages of Matisse, Klee and Picasso not enhanced by Duncan's seemingly intentional effort to celebrate childlike freshness. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Paige Miles: "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins Right song choice to try to have "a moment" but 7/8s of the song was dreadful. It's time to Party In The U.S.A. for 'American Idol' hopeful Crystal Bowersox 2010-03-24T15:02:00Z One example is dreadful, the other fascinating – and in my opinion, brilliant. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z Two very video-gamey things made the adventure all the more dreadful. Video Game Review: Resident Evil 6, by Capcom, Makes Its Debut 2012-10-02T19:39:33Z The past year saw the wrap-up of American Horror Story: Freak Show, the absolutely dreadful fourth season of FX’s blockbuster franchise. The best (and worst) US culture 2015: TV 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “Both because the winter was so dreadful and because the marathon is a life-affirming event in the face of the bombing.” Getting a Good View of the Boston Marathon 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z His death, the contradiction of birth but sharing a dreadful synergy. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Our polite 33-year-old daughter is about to marry a man with dreadful table manners. Can We Be Friends if We Can’t Talk About Money? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Brady: When you heard the dreadful results following the days after the prank, describe for me how you felt. Royal hoax DJs interview – full transcript 2012-12-10T08:26:16Z The dreadful stillness that follows their excursion are eerily brilliant in a way we haven’t seen for most of this action-movie season. The Walking Dead season six, episode 14: Twice As Far 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z He allows his thoughts to drift from desperation to longing, but he knows it all amounts to this “dreadful, gorgeous life.” In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Kipling saw it as a city of dreadful night and "one of the most wicked places in the universe". Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z You would be hard pressed to find a California Pinot Noir Rose for under $20 unless it falls into the "pretty dreadful" category. 20 Wines Under $20: The Savory Side of Rosé 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z He looked dreadful, despite my makeup artist having a go at disguising some of the bruising. 'Blood everywhere': Groom-to-be gets attacked at pub, shows up for wedding the next day 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Saturday 2 June marked the second anniversary of the dreadful Cumbria shootings by Derrick Bird which led to 12 people being killed and 11 injured. A postcard from Whitehaven 2012-06-04T07:00:00Z Which would have been dreadful had the audience turned up. Five-minute festival: Sandi Toksvig 2012-08-20T14:16:05Z I – a working class lad from Islington – had the feeling that, at any moment, someone was going to come up behind me and say, "Sorry, there's been a dreadful mistake, can you leave?" Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z “Kissing” opens with Eddie on the phone with Crystal, apologizing for their dreadful dinner date and inviting her to a resort at an English seaside town. | 'Kissing Sid James': ?Kissing Sid James,? at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-20T23:25:12Z On the eve of the publication of his second novel, he effects a scorched-earth policy — sometimes appallingly funny, sometimes just dreadful — toward almost everyone in his life. Critic’s Notebook: Mirror, Mirror: Sundance Hits 30 2014-01-23T22:44:05Z From the standpoint of the 21st century, that park — once featured in an episode of “I Love Lucy” — was no doubt a dreadful place. The SeaWorld sea change: Will the marine park’s about-face signal a shift in how we think about animal captivity? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z They are all dreadful, each of them drawling a whale-song gurgle of valley girl vowels where anyone else would use actual words. Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It brings to mind W. H. Auden’s line about how “even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course/Anyhow in a corner.” Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z The dreadful earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this week nearly had a ghastly effect on bridge. Bridge: Better Card Placement Thanks to the Bidding 2011-02-25T23:02:15Z But it does little to illuminate that struggle, preferring instead a constant parade of people telling the camera how dreadful it would be if The Times did not survive. | 'Page One: Inside The New York Times': A Hyperactive Fly on the Newsroom Wall 2011-06-16T21:05:42Z When Evans reached the supply depot ahead of Scott, he was in a dreadful condition, suffering from scurvy and the bitter disappointment of being ordered back short of the pole by Scott. 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney – review 2012-11-22T08:00:01Z How could so much talent produce such a dreadful mess? ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It is a depiction of how the dreadful events of youth can inform two lives: one heroic, the other sinister. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There is plenty of drama in "Orange," and the laughter it provokes is often rueful, in recognition of shared pain and the dreadful absurdity of the personal choices that so often cause it. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Then he is a dreadful hypochondriac and, in spite of his much-vaunted spirituality, terrified of the least ailment. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z The cultural dilution of David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” continues with “About Last Night,” an adaptation/remake with even less of the play’s DNA than the dreadful original film. ‘About Last Night’: A one-night stand best forgotten 2014-02-12T23:56:10Z It's a dreadful sound – it just doesn't sound like the human voice. Portrait of the artist: Emma Rice, artistic director 2012-05-29T17:30:01Z But what I had to do was a dreadful thing. My illegal abortion 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z Casey links the newspaper era that parallels the rise of the penny dreadful with the gestation of the 19th century idea of "new journalism." Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Although the end of “Medea” may not be as dreadful as Euripides intended, these radical departures have been a critical success. A new take on Greek tragedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In a pool of dreadful night, Aibileen and a young man trade goodbyes and rush off. | The Help : Spanning Two Southern Worlds, Black and White 2011-08-09T20:24:20Z “It was a Gloucester Old Spot. He asked me when we could turn it into sausages. I said, ‘But how dreadful! | Italian Hours 2014-03-18T18:29:23Z I found it dreadful: badly written and very much in need of an editor or three. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Unless audiences make the movie a hit, and a sequel appears in a year or so — and the whole cycle of torture and revenge recommences like a dreadful dream from which you can't awake. A Nightmare on Elm Street Review: Freddy's Not Dead Yet 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z The story ends with multiple layers of dreadful, unresolved irony. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Her particular enemy is Ares, the god of war, but, really, her enemy is war itself—bloody and brutal, senseless and dreadful. Wonder Woman’s Unwinnable War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Best of all, there's the title track, which starts as a lament for football fans in a dreadful season, and develops into a powerful ballad about hope in the face of disaster. Megson: The Longshot 2010-06-03T21:30:00Z Not strictly a novel, I realise, but along with Quixote, the prince of Denmark is the other great figure whose ghost beckons all subsequent protagonists over the dreadful cliff. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z The movie opens with a dreadful Tinder date, one that dies a swift death after our heroine tells her suitor she’d rather have her “period nonstop for a thousand years than continue with this conversation”. The incredible Jessica Williams: 'Great comedy comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up' 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Before she won, Germans had fretted for years over dreadful song contest results and the more ominous question of why they seemed to be so disliked in the rest of Europe. Germany's Lena wants 2nd Eurovision Song Contest win 2011-05-13T12:00:06Z He ridiculed the word “media,” for example, as “that dreadful Latin plural our detractors use when they really mean “scum.” Photographer of iconic burning monk photo dies 2012-08-28T14:24:00Z "It will bring dreadful results for the nation, particularly abroad." Film about massacre of Jews touches nerve in Poland 2012-12-14T15:38:31Z “What a dreadful job you’ve got,” an aggressively unpleasant, possibly homicidal woman sneers toward the end of Robert Galbraith’s latest mystery, “Lethal White.” Blackmail, Murder and Other Bad Behavior Abounds in Robert Galbraith’s ‘Lethal White’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z This may come in the form of dreadful song lyrics: “Where does time go:/I finish the dishes, I go to the store; before I know it, time is no more.” Review | At 87, William Shatner has advice on how to live well. Should we listen? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z This vision of our collective fate, in which technology destroys and saves us simultaneously, is both elevating and dreadful. Werner Herzog’s Internet Visionaries 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z This October looks more dreadful, by which we mean rosier for the horror movie business. Review: Toys Scare Us in the Halloween Horror Film Ouija 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The showrunner, Mike Flanagan, builds a dreadful atmosphere, which is crucial, because the creeping pace of his ten episodes would be intolerable if not for its ambient suspense. Halloween TV in a Time of Frightful Crisis 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z No musical, not even the dreadful “Diana, the Musical” was skunked, even if some awfully good plays, including “Pass Over” and “Is This a Room,” found themselves forgotten. In a Chaotic Tonys Season, It Was an Honor Just to Open 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z “Come to the Edge” makes the wise choice of describing this dreadful loss early rather than waiting for it to arrive chronologically. Books of The Times: Vivid Years on the Arm of a Kennedy 2011-03-23T21:57:13Z As far as I'm concerned, as a decent turn to art they ought to withdraw all Rolf's prints because they're really dreadful things. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Ishtar is a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy. Roger Ebert on some classic films and movie duds 2013-04-04T22:18:08Z Francis, despite his own dreadful nights of homelessness and addiction, was blessed by a strong religious faith, and by the friendship and support of the Meynells. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z His father, by contrast, was a dreadful bore. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z They meet up on the seafront on the sly to deliver some truly dreadful lines to each other. TV review: Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special; Secrets of Our Living Planet; True Love 2012-06-17T22:00:01Z Were Emma, so sardonic and yet so soft-hearted, and Dexter, such a dreadful show-off until life bites him on the bum, based on real people? David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry 2011-08-06T23:05:39Z It was dreadful to approach her now—her hair just wisps, her voice nearly gone, her cough breaking every sentence. Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake.” 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z We see the immediate aftermath of a dreadful auto accident in which Burnat himself crashed into the West Bank Wall and nearly died. Pick of the week: One Palestinian village resists 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z Germans in the 1930s and ’40s weren’t the only decent people who did dreadful things because an authority figure told them to. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z A great hollow on top of a range of dreadful mountains, and in the midst, a black lake, with phantom clouds perpetually stalking over it. Footsteps: Following Dickens Through Switzerland 2012-07-06T16:19:17Z Toast of Britain I wanted to like because it was co-written by Arthur Matthews, he of Father Ted, but – actually, shockingly – it was dreadful. Rewind TV: Parade's End; The Last Weekend; Funny Fortnight; The Queen's Mother-in-Law – review 2012-08-25T23:05:59Z I woke in a panic and had to shout the dreadful question, "Did I touch her by accident? Did I expose her?" Doctors and nurses don't need to be COVID-19's "heroes." We need you to see us as human beings 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The weather is dreadful even by English standards, and the harbor-dwellers have rushed down to the beach, anxious to alert a ship in distress. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z I still remember dutifully trooping out to see any remotely queer movie until that magic moment in 1995, when I walked out of a dreadful comedy called "Lie Down With Dogs" midway through. Why are so many films for Latinos bad? 2011-01-28T15:01:00Z “It was that dreadful man, Francis Bacon,” the writer Caroline Blackwood recalled one guest saying. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Ending a relationship is easily one of life’s most dreadful chores. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ and ‘The Breaker Upperers’ 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It was a dreadful year for new musicals. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It would be dreadful to be entirely unreadable. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley on Fiction as Anthropology 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But in the maelstrom of sudden celebrity, the sensitive and the troubled can lose their moorings swiftly and with dreadful consequences. Amy Winehouse joins the list of rock stars ravaged by drugs 2011-07-23T21:11:42Z More dreadful, we would have no water — no functioning sinks or bathrooms — for at least three days. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I won’t humor you anymore 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z So if I were to say that "Her Smell" is a female, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" without the humor, I think you'd get exactly how dreadful it is. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “Things there are dreadful right now,” he said, referring to the unremitting government crackdown that has jailed pro-democracy activists, human rights lawyers and journalists, some of them his friends. Ai Weiwei and Warhol, Together Again 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The theatre of death is playing out and milking its dreadful prologue to the bitter finale. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z I don’t mean the movie is so monumentally dreadful. “Ruby Sparks”: Writing the perfect girlfriend 2012-07-25T00:01:00Z He had maintained relationships with the Gates and Agee families, and he says the killings, and their dreadful aftermath, were instrumental in making him want to look at the violence plaguing the African-American community. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z The reality of our dependence on them is both beautiful and dreadful. Review: In ‘10.000 km,’ Lovers an Ocean Apart Struggle to Connect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I didn’t read it at high school, and for a couple of decades I enjoyed shocking all my literary friends with this dreadful gap in my reading list. Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Oliver does understand that his perennially ill-at-ease mother, played by the wonderful Sally Hawkins in a dreadful bob haircut and a succession of shapeless, ankle-length frocks, is worried about him. "Submarine": A geek-love indie from the Welsh seacoast 2011-06-03T20:20:00Z The dreadful revival of a musical based on a children’s novel about an orphaned chimp is observed through various points of view in this fresh, Chekhovian novel. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z For now, I lean toward the stance of a friend who recently summarized the entire Allen-Farrow debate as “an awful, messy, murky situation involving two people who seem like crazy, dreadful parents.” The uneasy ambiguity of the Woody Allen case 2014-02-03T20:41:00Z “I don’t write about every property,” he said, “just if they are exceptionally good or dreadful and not worthy.” How TripAdvisor altered your vacation-planning universe 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He was "the sort of man who, just because he was afraid of a bull and had pictured the dreadful wound it could give, would therefore seize it by the horns". The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z While the story of Jordan Davis and Michael Dunn is a dreadful human tragedy, as well as an entirely avoidable one, at least a travesty of justice was not piled on top of it. “Young black men are human beings”: This murdered black teen’s parents have a message for America 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He added: "The fact that I'm never ever going to see him again is dreadful." Tributes paid to actor Peter O'Toole 2013-12-16T17:25:16Z In time, his sudden and dreadful death will be subsumed into everything else. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z It takes about two weeks of that dreadful weather to bring me to my senses and remind me why I left, but I’m lucky enough that I’m able to go back fairly regularly. All Seal Needs Is Love 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The beauty of Saul in “Breaking Bad” was his unflappable nature; no matter how dire or dreadful the circumstances, he was able to identify the next logical step and take it. TV Picks: 'Better Call Saul,' 'The Blacklist,' 'The Jinx' 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z So I went to see him and there was a dreadful quarrel. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z He too is frustrated by horse-trading politicians, inequality of wealth and caste, incessant Indian meddling and the dreadful former king. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Minor league baseball players are subject to some of the poorest wages and most dreadful working conditions in America. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Somebody has to because, while a Simpsons universe without Krusty is dreadful, a Simpsons universe without Itchy and Scratchy is legitimately unthinkable. Krusty the Clown: the greatest Simpsons character ever? 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z But beyond popularity, it’s generally considered the best anywhere, for the great ballet ensembles of Europe — in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris — all dance inferior or just plain dreadful choreographies. In a season full of 'Nutcracker,' the brilliance of Balanchine shines through 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The extremity of Dali’s vision, like the supersized and overly muscled arm of a figure painted by Joan Miró, suggests the difficulty artists were facing in a world newly awash with dreadful images. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Now that actual footage of the film has emerged, albeit footage swaddled in one dreadful ironic parody trailer after another, it hardly seems worth getting excited about it at all. The Canyons: 2013's most pointless movie? 2013-01-03T12:57:33Z All Victorian life is here, which means the novel itself becomes a kind of freakshow, obsessed with its relationship to its own cleverly chosen epigraphs and the "penny dreadful" tales to which characters allude. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z You only have to watch the dreadful Starship Troopers 3 for proof of that; its sets wouldn't be out of place in a 1950s B-movie, and the effects are consistently unconvincing. Sequel opportunity 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The character, in Mr. O’Brien’s words a “dreadful old dreadnought,” was originally written for a woman. Shaun O?Brien, 86, New York City Ballet Dancer 2012-02-28T05:16:04Z “IT is dreadful,” declared India Hicks, the model and former “Top Design” host, in a supremely proper English accent that made the phrase a symphony of syllables. The Royal Wedding: A Royal Wedding? She?s Been There 2011-04-01T19:00:45Z “Rather dreadful for an English girl to marry a Turk, I think, don’t you?” a character in Agatha Christie’s “Dumb Witness” says. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “I remain hopeful and believing that Kent will be healed from this dreadful disease,” she said. Ebola-infected Americans to be evacuated from Liberia 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Lewis' Narnia series -- it's either the third or the fifth volume, depending on which side of the dreadful Douglas Gresham schism you fall -- seem particularly interesting. "Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader": Narnia gets a religious makeover 2010-12-09T01:30:00Z As Sherlock Holmes once declared, “The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” ‘Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne,’ by Edward D. Hoch There’s some dreadful country music, but when it’s good, when the lyrics are good, they’re the best songwriters. | Arctic Monkeys: Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe 2011-05-14T04:00:06Z Offensive only in Mr. Wortham’s dreadful acting, “Now & Later” is part of a series at the Quad called “Unrated: A Week of Sex in Cinema” — a title that should ensure plenty of backsides on seats. | 'Now & Later': ?Now & Later? Explores Sex and Politics 2011-02-18T01:35:18Z It's funny because when there were a lot of us, the dreadful days would be either the days with Jimmy because we'd all have to do rehearsals. Stefano Langone tells all in media conference call 2011-04-25T21:10:05Z Henry the Eighth, dying, is “a swollen, hideous spectacle, with a great hole in his leg, and so odious to every sense that it was dreadful to approach him.” Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z We were an unknown entity with dreadful reviews and high running costs. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead of seeming empowered and cool, the show is dreadful, putting far too much effort into giving Nancy and her world a darker edge. Review | After their CW treatments, Batwoman and Nancy Drew have a hard time being themselves 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Well’s appraisal is a laundry list of complaints, describing the waiters as rude, the food dreadful and the management miserable. Peter Luger given zero stars in brutal New York Times review 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z That’s how I see life, and all these things that are just dreadful. The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Vonnegut’s prose, even when dealing with the dreadful, whistles a happy tune. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z I’d nearly failed to be with Millie and Matt on the dreadful journey of understanding and acceptance around their mum’s deathbed. My kids are more important than my career – so to hell with the job 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Audiences are used to this, because it’s how singing competitions have always operated, but the highs are so high here that the lows are dreadful. The Masked Singer: the year's strangest TV show is already here 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The School of Life books by de Botton’s epigones are also pretty dreadful. Self-help hits rock Botton 2013-05-13T19:58:00Z Also, a brain of sorts to help steer, stop, park and anticipate all the dreadful things that might occur on the road, then seamlessly avoid them. This almost-but-not-quite-driverless car is smarter than your car 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The Dominican actress' long mane is silver on top and falls into purple-tinted curls down below -- and it's a far cry from Daya's dreadful dye job on the show. Dye-a! Dascha Polanco of 'Orange Is the New Black' goes gray at NYFW 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z This film gathers the recollections of more than 50 people involved in the events of that dreadful day: victims, witnesses, rescuers, the bereaved. TV highlights: 02/07/12 2012-07-01T19:00:03Z On the other live the desperate, the occupied, and when Joshua, hunting for his lost football, discovers a tunnel that leads under the wall, he sets in action a series of dreadful consequences. William Sutcliffe: 'It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be' 2013-04-02T07:00:01Z And dreadful though it is, the appalling turn of events has given him his role: he must support Devorah, and he must reassure her, and keep on reassuring her, that all will be well. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Yet another lineup struggles to play How Soon Is Now?, and the sound is largely dreadful. Morrissey – review 2012-07-29T17:30:01Z In 1996, he agreed to be in a dreadful play by Wallace Shawn, “The Designated Mourner,” presumably because it allowed him to be alone on the stage much of the time. Let Us Now Praise Mike Nichols 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Don't you think Blake and Byron are quite dreadful? Digested read: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin 2010-10-11T20:00:00Z This is going to sound dreadful, but I am appalled at the stupidity of some people's faith. David Nobbs 2010-09-18T23:04:00Z Blanchett worked really hard in that dreadful role and battled Allen’s script almost to a draw; maybe the Academy voters just felt empathy for her struggle. “Magic in the Moonlight”: It’s time to stop making excuses for Woody Allen 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Her complicity in suppressing her composing career does seem to us today truly dreadful. The Alma problem 2010-12-02T22:31:00Z But the beauty of Saul was his unflappable nature; no matter how dire or dreadful the circumstances, he was able to identify the next logical step and take it. 'Better Call Saul' the real deal, and Odenkirk delivers goods 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z We are tense; it is a dreadful way to start a school day. How to help a clingy 4-year-old uncling 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z As she hunches over her Mac and elicits dreadful deeds from secret files, the electric heat of her concentration is almost visible. The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi 2010-07-11T07:55:00Z Yet dreadful behaviour by newspapers is not new. Torin Douglas: 24 years in media 2013-06-03T07:43:41Z That it was the star's belief in her talent and pressure from Florence that led him to make the dreadful "Cuban Rebel Girls" starring Beverly. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In some cases, it is just a way to find comfort, to ease the mental burden of irrational obsessions that a loved one might die, or that something dreadful will happen to them. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “She spotted me from afar and shouted, ‘There’s that dreadful woman! Corin Redgrave: He lost his memory of our life together 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z You see, the dreadful period of almost clinical depression had not set in yet. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z It was a reasonably dreadful piece, almost wholly salvaged by the performance of Lacey Turner. Rewind TV: The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass; Our Girl; Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day; Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise 2013-03-30T22:45:01Z This isn’t an example of the dreadful phenomenon of comedians’ laughing at their own jokes. Comedic Legend Jerry Lewis Dead at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z But it’s helpful to do these things in bite-size pieces, so you’re not feeling there’s this dreadful endless thing of being on the road. Mick Jagger talks Stones tour, ticket prices and scalpers 2013-04-03T20:07:00Z Hemon does not overplay the dreadful irony of the aesthete turned warmonger. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-04-14T09:00:01Z This film makes the dreadful TV show “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers” seem sophisticated. Movie Review: ‘3 Geezers!,’ Directed by Michelle Schumacher 2013-05-21T22:39:35Z But a black hole in her memory protects some trauma she doesn’t want to touch, its dreadful shadow looming ever larger as the book goes on. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps the great director is actually too upset to focus his story on the human fallout of a dreadful war making monsters of us all. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Modern Germany has been praised for its efforts to keep the dreadful memory of the Holocaust present for the generations born after what Hannah Arendt called the “break in civilization.” ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z He portrayed its dreadful effects not only on the body but on the mind. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Both these records could have been dreadful: both succeed wildly, as Hauschka and the Dirtbombs each seem enlivened by the challenges they've set themselves, adapting their sounds to the rhythms and structures of techno. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z When I was 9 or 10, I wrote a trilogy of truly dreadful Lloyd Alexander knockoffs, and there’s no doubt in my mind that that was the apex of my career as a novelist. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z Three times, the ringing of a spectral bell is followed by the appearance of a ghost, harbinger of a dreadful accident. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z Aiming spells fares less well, the faintest hint of action leaving Kinect baffled, so it's a shadow of past Fables, but possibly the least dreadful Kinect game. This week's new games 2012-10-12T23:05:47Z And yet his quiet and exacting humaneness infuses even the most dreadful moments with an intimation of grace. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z I plucked tiny mussels, squid, bits of salmon and a rangy prawn from a saffron-scented, fennel-thick sea whose delicate balance was nearly upset by a dreadful saffron rouille plopped on its shore. Le Grand serves Gallic fare with American flair 2011-06-16T20:38:13Z Meeting men my age for the first time, I realized with a dreadful shock of self-recognition, I saw men who were too old. I Was Misinformed: Sexual Myopia: If You’re My Age, Why Do You Look So Old? 2013-01-16T14:00:00Z Ella is, to be frank, a perfectly dreadful human being — casually bigoted, wantonly unpleasant, the sort of parent who fawns extravagantly over one child and habitually belittles the other. ‘Anno Domino’ Review: Long Married, but Open to Adjustment 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Jane Fonda is great in general, but The Newsroom is absolutely dreadful and totally wastes her considerable talents. Emmy nominations 2014: some surprises, just not the right ones 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature” aptly sums up Ros’s work as “uniquely dreadful.” Review | What’s the worst novel ever? It might be this 19th-century train wreck. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It would be a dreadful shame if the county were to lose all its ash trees - the legends surrounding them show just how much they are a part of our history and ethos. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z “Their greatest terror,” Mr. Levine said, “is that they’ll become like their parents and maybe do something dreadful, like furnish the house in knotty pine.” Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z Withholding the family history from the audience is only moderately successful at generating suspense; it’s no spoiler to say that Nial did something dreadful and Niamh hasn’t forgiven him. ‘Moment’ review: Kitchen-sink realism makes this Irish drama shine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z All the actors in “Get Hard” are stuck with dreadful non-characters, but if you ask me, Brie’s paper-thin misogynist caricature is the most insidious and unexamined stereotype in the whole movie. “Get Hard” is a bloated, lazy prison rape-joke trainwreck 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This year’s edition got off to a dreadful start in June, when its most prominent artwork, an agitprop mural incorporating unmistakable antisemitic caricatures, had to be withdrawn amid national outcry. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z And so he grapples with grief, denial and the dreadful feeling that his life is shutting down before it really got started. Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It takes her awhile to realize she’s been the passive witness to something dreadful, and it takes her even longer to process it. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z You have these dreadful statistics about African countries that are poorer now than in 1992, when they started keeping figures. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z The last thing she says is, “You’re in for some dreadful grief.” ArtsBeat: Stephen Colbert on 'Network': Great Film, or the Greatest Film? 2011-05-19T15:14:27Z But mainly because it' s a cathedral experience: a hundred or a thousand votaries in a dark room whose only light illuminates those big, gorgeous stars and their dreadful, beautiful problems.
Review: Grease and a Sing-a-long: They Go Together... 2010-07-16T23:55:00Z The meeting was all in a tumult; there were dreadful cries; the soldiers kept riding amongst the people, and striking with their swords. Women's role at Peterloo revisited in Manchester anniversary walk 2012-08-15T09:33:47Z This dreadful state of affairs is brought to an end when social services are tipped off by a neighbour. Blood Family by Anne Fine – review 2013-07-13T09:30:00Z Later the climactic crisis raises the specter either of Samantha going to jail or the friends having to fly home in coach, and it’s not altogether clear which prospect they regard as more dreadful. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z His work was a life-or-death struggle to make sense of our stupid, dreadful, hilarious world. Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z But then they may just be an improvement on the dreadful woman who used to thunder about upstairs, now dead, and good riddance. | 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Co-Op?s Old Crank Finds a Fresh Spirit 2011-08-17T02:30:38Z These bleak circumstances and lack of opportunities lead the characters to make dreadful decisions with tragic, often violent consequences. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z There’s a preordained quality to these early scenes, but Hornby moves Barbara along funnily enough through a few odd jobs and auditions before she reads for a part in a dreadful pilot called “Wedded Bliss.” From the author of ‘About a Boy,’ a comic novel set in the 1960s traces the rise of a sitcom star 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But there's a select class of movies so sublimely, ecstatically dreadful that the standard criteria no longer apply. "Best Worst Movie": The cult of the truly bad film 2010-05-14T20:12:00Z My first reaction to this was: how dreadful for him and his family. The life-affirming legacy of my near-death experience 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Now, like so many others, he’s been brought into Disney’s big tent, first with the dreadful Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, now with Dumbo. Grounded? How Disney's Dumbo flop could threaten its master plan 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z "Most of the time you think, 'this is dreadful, I've made a complete mess of this'." Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z When we emerge from this nightmare, we will be grateful to David Cay Johnston and other historians of the now for their contributions to our understanding of this dreadful, and remarkable, era. Eating Away at Government From the Inside 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z I saw this a couple of weeks ago and it was indeed dreadful. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Did she make a distinction in her own mind that, in this dreadful story she was telling, she was not animating her own nation’s history? Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Under the makeup, Star Wars is just human wants and desires’ 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z It was so dreadful that such a lovely person should face such a thing. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It's hideous: cheaply made and impossible to annotate, with each month containing a different but equally dreadful paparazzi close-up of his own giant head. The secret life of Jason Statham 2013-06-21T13:00:00Z Dragon is both sensuous and thoughtful, a treat for the spirit as well as for any moviegoer longing for an intelligent film involving brave heroes and dreadful villains. Dragon: The One-Armed Swordsman With a Heart 2012-11-29T15:00:15Z And then there was the music itself, as immortalized on that infamous record: a fascinatingly dreadful stew of out-of-tune guitars, skittering drums and affectless vocals bleating out naïve, often haunting lyrics. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z But even in the comfort of a luxury hotel, your first night’s sleep can be dreadful compared to a night in your own bed. Struggle to sleep in a strange bed? Scientists have uncovered why 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Wilder was one of a kind and loved by his fans, so why take the time to single out “Silver Streak” and call it dreadful? Readers reflect on the staying power of Beatlemania and mourn the loss of Gene Wilder 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z There is no doubt," she says, "that my mother had to be saved from this dreadful thing. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z Nightclubs create communities, she added, “and to have that cut off is dreadful.” Maskless and Sweaty: Clubbing Returns to Britain for a Weekend 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z My thoughts: they should end every single one of those dreadful comedy pre-dance skits with a sad trombone and the distant sound of crying children. The X Factor final – live blog 2012-12-08T19:47:59Z Perhaps it's a question of inspiration: great art inspires more art, some equally great, some dreadful, some satirical, some expedient, some thrilling. Rewriting Shakespeare: intriguing exercise or publishing gimmick? 2013-06-27T14:53:51Z But mostly I thought, “Malpractice insurance. Of course. How dreadful.” ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 7: Jimmy Goes Backward 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The 19th century had a similar macabre popular fascination, the penny dreadful. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The fourth magnificence of this, quite probably the best television I've seen this year, is Rebecca Hall as the dreadful, haughty, flighty Sylivia. Rewind TV: Parade's End; The Last Weekend; Funny Fortnight; The Queen's Mother-in-Law – review 2012-08-25T23:05:59Z “The deaths of parents,” Adams memorably observed, “dreadful and sad as they are, to an extent free writers.” The Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s Life and Work 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z He did these vitrines, which I felt were dreadful. Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies' 2012-06-09T20:46:38Z All of them are films I'd gladly stick on before even considering rewatching one of the dreadful blockbusters of this year. Why I'm looking forward to Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010-05-26T14:19:00Z Like he wore in that dreadful film opposite Kirsten Scott Thomas. K19: The Widowmaker - live! 2010-10-06T10:48:00Z Jacob relished the relationship, which began when Frederick III, the Holy Roman Emperor, was given a loan by Fugger’s brother in spite of a dreadful credit rating. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Grandad would sing it with eyes closed, lost to the world, his rich, strong voice full of passion and memories of those dreadful war years. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z Cue the family’s dreadful crash; the fault is their car. REVIEW: If I Stay and Life After Beth: What If She's Not Dead? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Ten perfectly dreadful movies I hope to never think about again: "30 Minutes or Less," "Beastly," "The Change-Up," "Cowboys and Aliens," "Hall Pass," "The Hangover Part II," "Hesher," "New Year's Eve," "Something Borrowed," "Your Highness." 10 awesome movies ? and 10 awful ones 2011-12-30T01:16:29Z "When we meet Blunt his show is no longer doing well, the numbers are dreadful and his career is in crisis." Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Now, I'm fully aware that I might be the only person in the entire universe to hold this view, but I think killing Jack Reacher is a dreadful shame. No Jack Reacher sequel? How else will Tom Cruise rescue this ridiculous film? 2013-01-16T17:22:29Z When two young men were convicted of his murder last month, the judge, Nicholas Cooke, called it “yet another dreadful example of London’s knife crime.” Amid London’s Crime Surge, Authorities Take Aim at ‘Drill,’ a Bleak Style of Rap Music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “It was lose, lose,” lamented David Edelstein, chief film critic for New York magazine, adding that the whole matter left him feeling “devastated and dreadful.” Armond White, Ousted Critic, Has Words on Expulsion 2014-01-17T23:09:50Z In the early 2000s he made a series of disastrous film choices including Michael Bay’s overblown Pearl Harbor and the dreadful weepie Jersey Girl. Ben Affleck: ‘My wildest dreams have come true, but at a price’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Griffith proposed a simple solution for resolving a dreadful war like the one that Europe had recently endured: Choose one combatant from each side and let them duke it out, winner take all. Pacific Rim: Transformers Transcended 2013-07-10T01:50:23Z |
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