But William Blair's two daughters frequently waited on customers there and Matthew held them in absolute dread.

It sounded inhuman enough to make his skin tingle with absolute dread.

Its aspect inspired me with absolute dread, and, checking my horse, I half resolved to turn back.

The job that everyone considered bad was in the workroom, which was my absolute dread.

In that few minutes, he had gone from being almost unbearably happy to feeling an almost absolute dread.

And now they have an absolute dread of the gods.

Worse, a feeling of absolute dread had rooted itself.

I just have a yawning sense of absolute dread.

Their 2001 work Lateralus was compared by Allmusic to Pink Floyd's Meddle (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread".

In absolute dread, the cat covers his eyes and slowly peeks at his new mess, and then lifts his hand; his eyes exaggeratedly pop out and his jaw drops.