dreadfulness

• “So well did Benita seem to understand Sanders that the Siren thinks his "dreadfulness" might have been oddly comforting at times.”

  Self-Styled Siren

• “The sound of the wind adds to the dreadfulness. (via Japundit)”

  Boing Boing

• “An interesting book touching both on aristocratic privilege and on dreadfulness in 1800s Ireland is _The Reason Why_.”

  Taxes, Independence, and Canada, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The US also avoided various forms of dreadfulness in the British Empire in the 1800s, like Irish and Indian famines.”

  Taxes, Independence, and Canada, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “They're dispensed at frequent intervals by Diane Lane, who does better than anyone had a right to expect, since she is saddled with dialogue of exceptional dreadfulness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'

• “We must stick it out until the bitter end despite the dreadfulness of it all.”

  kateelliott: The Lame Phase

• “The problem is that we've all learned to tolerate a level of overpaid, institutionalised corporate dreadfulness that no one actually likes but everyone meekly accepts because we've all been told that blockbuster movies have to be stupid to survive.”

  The Guardian: Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people

• “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 PRINCESS

• “If you pick up a copy of Marlene Zuk's brilliant, brilliantly titled SEX ON SIX LEGS expecting to find a Nature Channel-friendly book about the wonders or dreadfulness of the insect world, you might be a little bit disappointed.”

  The Huffington Post: Gee Henry: Book Review: Marlene Zuk's 'Sex on Six Legs'

• “I still have fond memories of the first time I stumbled onto Robot Monster, back in the days when local broadcast television had afternoon movie shows, and one could serendipitously chance upon such inspired dreadfulness as a cheesy science fiction epic -- with Hamlet-like ambitions -- in which the titular monster was actually some guy in a gorilla suit wearing a toy diver's helmet (check it out if you don't believe me).”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Troblins? Michael Paul Stephenson on Best Worst Movie

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