dread

Finding the right balance between humor and existential dread is perhaps the biggest challenge of staging “Godot.”

The boy is an excellent student; while his classmates dread going to school, he dreads his plantain-lugging weekends.

Also, “this was a neglected demographic on the dreaded dating-apps scene.”

His emphasis on “historic” did not have a tone of dread, pathos, or regret.

The only new data point was that this patient, so long dreading this day, had positive biomarkers showing increased risk for the disease.