| 单词 | dreadfulness |
| 例句 | “And now I hear in your voice that you have it too. I feel wings over this house. I feel a dreadfulness coming.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sullivan too remembers the old divisions – "the dreary dreadfulness of the 70s" of his teens, the ideological and regional divide. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z Time to declare war on the shaky camera How to describe the aggressive dreadfulness of "Battle: Los Angeles," maybe the worst-directed Hollywood movie I've ever seen? Time to declare war on the shaky camera 2011-03-15T20:16:00Z No other film genre boasts such an unimpeachable reputation for dreadfulness as the video game adaptation. Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “A lot of times older films are scarier because they have a permeating dreadfulness, rather than just relying on a cat landing on someone’s head,” he said. Phantom Creep Theater, Lovecraft Festival and Other Horror Events 2012-07-12T21:31:25Z The series’ shared subject is the dreadfulness and happiness of the co-working life. The 75 best TV shows on Hulu right now, according to our experts 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z I will say, though, that laying out the dreadfulness of “Anatomy of a Scandal” point by point as we have in this conversation crystallizes its appeal for me. 'Yummy mummies with predatory husbands' took over TV. Blame David E. Kelley 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z He simply appears to be avoiding the dreadfulness of his responsibilities. Perspective | The president is golfing and exercising White male privilege 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z They stuck with him through two months of dreadfulness. Dodgers Dugout: A closer look at the first half of the season 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “I confess to a very strong sense of the dreadfulness of the step of removal, of the deep wounding such a step must inflict on the country,” Black writes. Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It was hard to see past the dreadfulness of the situation, and I think we both began to associate each other with suffering. A year ago I was raped. Here’s what I have learned | Anonymous 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z My own ambitions and the dreadfulness of our political world consume and distract me. Opinion | What I’ve Learned from My 4-Year-Old 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z "This drug has an aura of dreadfulness around it but that it is completely unjustified." 'I woke up one day with severe acne' - BBC News 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Other centerpieces arrived to the Cubs courtesy of the high draft picks that the team earned through its years of calculated dreadfulness. The Most Pleasing Campaign of 2016 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, Sterling’s run as a team steward was one of the most remarkable in history due solely to its dreadfulness. During absurd NBA spending spree, at least the workers, not the CEOs, cashed in 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The series' shared subject is the dreadfulness and happiness of the co-working life. 'Superstore': So-so new workplace comedy in Aisle 9 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Equally, although he proved to be a truly dreadful boyfriend, once I'd got used to him, his dreadfulness became a part of me. Why embracing change is the key to happiness 2013-09-06T16:30:15Z First, and sadly, the dreadfulness of the Wizards, the worst team in the NBA. Capitals fans can celebrate now, but what did the lockout really cost? 2013-01-06T17:25:00Z The Times reports that it has "taken some days for the full dreadfulness" of what happened there "to percolate" into public consciousness. Papers debate Rochdale 'ordeal' 2012-09-28T05:21:34Z The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But as she smoked, she lost no opportunity of impressing upon me the dreadfulness of the tobacco habit. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z I have had such sorrows, and have seen such dreadfulness; I have been so cold, and hongry, and frightened. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z The air is full of the sense of all that dreadfulness—the echoes forever in one's ears. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Through the tender care of her friends Eleanor speedily recovered her consciousness, though only to be made aware, by contemplation, of the dreadfulness of her situation. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z Now the dreadfulness of it is that I have no right to do such a thing. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z This is really what Milly calls a state of dreadfulness—no other word will describe it. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z The suddenness, as well as the dreadfulness of the catastrophe, sickened him. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I could have cried out at the dreadfulness of such a fate. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z But as a dwelling-place for German troops it is a city of abomination and dreadfulness. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Bruce saw the full dreadfulness of the blow and was powerless to save. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z The state of dreadfulness deepened as time went on. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z The words beat a refrain of dreadfulness in his brain. "—so I am going away." The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z The most horrid felonies have lost their dreadfulness, especially since the papal indulgences, sold for cash, insure absolution and impunity to the criminals. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Each felt the dreadfulness of returning so abruptly to sordid exterior consciousness—each felt the gray ghost of Pel�e. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z But they had no realization of the full dreadfulness of the plan. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z The whole dreadfulness of the dilemma in which he was placed flashed upon him instantaneously. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 She was half-swooning under the dreadfulness of the thing that had befallen. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z The inexplicable dreadfulness of it was a menace to the mind's very existence, but surely a rooted tree, however terrible to look at, could wield little actual danger. The Tree of Life There was particular dreadfulness in the quantity of fluid evenly sheeted on the pavement as from a pail carefully overturned. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The dreadfulness of them made her forget his momentary chivalry for her. An Old Chester Secret Like the criminal whom the dreadfulness of solitude terrifies, I fled from my country place to Paris. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II This Lorenzo saw, and, wonderful to say, in this soiled and seething river, in these torn and crumbling banks, in all the dreadfulness of these things, he saw a beauty and a grandeur. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I As he reasoned, his eyes were seeking restlessly among the branches, searching for the answer to their dreadfulness. The Tree of Life All who have the benefit of knowing you must thank the stars which permitted your beautiful love of life to survive the dreadfulness of which you have given me a glimpse.” Aurora the Magnificent Alone in the schoolroom, you seem to have come to some realization of the extraordinary dreadfulness of your behavior. The Passionate Friends Cleo's appearance—she had taken particular notice of her face—had at least narrowed that vast dreadfulness which had till then tortured her. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real And so comparing, she could not but find in the one a nobility, in the other a—a dreadfulness. The Wild Geese The incredible dreadfulness of that embrace was suddenly more than Smith could bear. The Tree of Life And then, suddenly, the dreadfulness of the deed she had done—though quite the puppy's fault, and not hers at all—came over her. Oswald Bastable and Others I have to feel the dreadfulness of these things, I told myself, because it is good for such a creature as I to feel them dreadful, but if one understood it would all be simple. The Passionate Friends Along with this well-being came again appreciation of the dreadfulness of her case. Heart of the Blue Ridge I am thinking of the dreadfulness of being ashamed of the dearest thing you have, and the way hearts break under it. The End of a Coil Those arcs and changing curves of the branches as they neared were sketching lines of pure horror whose meaning he still could not understand, save that they deepened in dreadfulness as he neared. The Tree of Life His greatness sheltered her from their dreadfulness, their cleverness, their littleness. The Creators A Comedy But their great deprivation is that none of these things can help them to get away from themselves, from the torments of their own souls, the haunting dreadfulness of their own secret worries. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends She opened her eyes to view the cabin walls, and the full dreadfulness of her situation swept her in an instant. The Snowshoe Trail There! that ends it off with a sort of threatening dreadfulness that ought to scare her stiff. The Governess Dimly he knew that until now the thing had been so frightful that his eyes had refused to register its existence, his brain to acknowledge the possibility of such dreadfulness. The Tree of Life People remarked on the dreadfulness of the event. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales "Perhaps I shouldn't have said so much, but when she came she seemed so unconscious of the dreadfulness and danger that I'm afraid I scolded a bit." Glory of Youth To him all the dreadfulness, the mystery, the pain and the solitude have melted away, and death has become a mere change of place. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. For Harry suddenly seemed to be no protection now, and the horrors threatened by Duplay—the interrogation, the lawyer's office, and the like—recovered their dreadfulness. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House It needed only this touch13 of mortal peril in that panorama of dreadfulness to arouse them, good scouts that they were, to the chances of adventure and the possibility of service. Tom Slade's Double Dare The dreadfulness and unexpectedness of this catastrophe occupied me wholly. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The dreadfulness of the sights, the stench in the air, the tragic presence of death has not gripped their souls, their courage or their nerves. Fighting France It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country It was not that she minded the dreadfulness of sights and sounds—she had been too much in hospitals for that. The Tin Soldier Their dreadfulness increases as they are nearer to the western quarter, and also as they are farther away from the southern quarter, and decreases towards the eastern quarter and towards the southern quarter. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell He stands on the edge of a crime beside which, at least in outward dreadfulness, the slaughter of an individual looks insignificant. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth A wry, desperate, cursed world, as she had called it, a pot seething with bitterness and all dreadfulness, with its Rosalinds floating on the top like scum. Dangerous Ages It is the old men, the women, the children, the babies and the physically imperfect who must bear the brunt of dreadfulness. Private Peat Come, come!" said the captain, heartily; "it is not all unmitigated dreadfulness. For Woman's Love No traits of chivalrous generosity are told of him, nothing that softens the dreadfulness of war. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII He looked forward to it; part of the dreadfulness of the past month had been their separation; now they were to be alone again, without that anarchic and despotic pack. Married Life The True Romance The increased dreadfulness of war due to modern weapons is, however, only one consequence of their development. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 But oh, the dreadfulness of it and what it brought with it! Cecilia de Noël She never opened her eyes. 16th—Showed her the dreadfulness of wrath; freeness of Christ; the majesty, justice, truth of God. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne For the first time he saw them in all their dreadfulness. The Silent Places Nor, though his insight into the essential dreadfulness of Italian tragedy was so deep, is it possible to maintain that his portraiture of Italian life was true to its more superficial aspects. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Those pests of insects can hardly be estimated at their true dreadfulness by persons unacquainted with the infamous habits of the nocturnal beetle of the tropics. White Shadows in the South Seas There 264is luxuriance close to barrenness, gracefulness close to dreadfulness, life close to loneliness. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times These witnesses He qualified to see the truth in its vast proportions and feel it in its divine dreadfulness. Sketches of the Covenanters It is not the spell of that which shall be that is upon the soul, but the irksomeness or the dreadfulness of that which is. The Threshold Grace Why, when she laughed at him, had he not been able to dissemble his emotions for a few seconds? to mask his dreadfulness? The Penalty By the discovering the dreadfulness of such a condition, and how hazardous it is to continue therein. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life "And indeed I wish that poor man had never come here, if it's this sort of dreadfulness follows him!" she said. Dead Men's Money Perhaps things of this kind will be manageable without dreadfulness. An Englishman Looks at the World "Oh, that was a dreadful thing to say," was a refrain that would keep her awake for hours, wriggling and giggling in her bed over the dreadfulness of it. This Is the End Now, thanks to the miscarried plotting of Burke to the like end, what before had been merely a vicious state of affairs was become one of the utmost dreadfulness. Within the Law The believer would consider seriously the dreadfulness of their condition who are lying under the lash of the law for sin. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life “Huh!” sneered the terrible one, with such dreadfulness of menace as to cause Whiskers and Fatty involuntarily to close their hands down on their cave-man’s weapons. The Red One But General Siddall's establishment presented a new phase to her—and she thought it unique in dreadfulness and absurdity. The Price She Paid Unless a person actually witness a murder, he cannot imagine the shock and dreadfulness of seeing one man shot down, writhe, gasp, grow pale and cease struggling. The Cruise of the Dry Dock There was infinite pathos in the tones as she repeated the words so fraught with dreadfulness. Within the Law There had been barely a glance between us to betoken the dreadfulness of the moment. Ruggles of Red Gap It is a dreadful task that of answering examination papers—only to be exceeded in dreadfulness by the horrors of Mr. Jobbles' viva voce torments. The Three Clerks If they once broke, and went outside of the Barrier, no knowledge of mine could state the full extent of the dreadfulness of the danger. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder And alway I kept my body and my Will and my Spirit and my Love between the Maid and the dreadfulness of the House. The Night Land The dreadfulness of all such proposals as this lies in the possibility of their execution falling into the hands of hard, dull, and cruel administrators. A Modern Utopia There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party. This Freedom Impulsive Faith thought of nothing but the dreadfulness of it. Rainbow Valley I am going to write to him and tell him that he must get over that dreadfulness," she muttered after a while, "and come back and be friends with me. King Midas: a Romance And so I to know more in the heart, somewhat of the true dreadfulness and fear that had companioned Mine Own. The Night Land L. Well, Lily, we must go through a little dreadfulness, that's a fact: no road to any good knowledge is wholly among the lilies and the grass; there is rough climbing to be done always. The Ethics of the Dust Wrath fled from her knitted brows; her eyes dropping to the girl, lost their dreadfulness; softened. The Metal Monster No doubt one must admit the "helplessness, propriety, and incapacity" of most of Cooper's women, and the dreadfulness of his bores, particularly the Scotchmen, the doctors, and the naturalists. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters They separated with ostentatious whooping, and then Johnny, suddenly overcome with the dreadfulness of all earthly things, and the hollowness of life generally, instantly resolved to run away! Cressy And the stink to come up, so that we did be like to lose our breath with the dreadfulness of it, as you shall think. The Night Land Mary-'Gusta considered shooting a cat the height of cruelty and dreadfulness but she was aware of the universal condemnation of chicken stealing and kept her thought to herself. Mary-'Gusta He wondered what they did in Italy to people who "beat" hotels; and, remembering what some one had told him of the dreadfulness of Italian jails, convulsive shudderings seized upon him. His Own People The folly, the dreadfulness of what she had done, swept over her like a flood, and with it came dreadful fear. Mae Madden Her son spoke of the loss she would be to him; he spoke of the dreadfulness of death. The Egoist Yet were there some dangers against which it might not avail; but these had no cunning to bring harm to any within the Great Redoubt who had wisdom to meddle with no dreadfulness. The Night Land This dreadful Death to his own dreadfulness Doth dreadful wrong, This dreadful childish babble on his tongue! Poems |
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