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Nevertheless, the music playing in the background is powerful, and, though the ravine in the film may not look much like the "real" Babi Yar, it evokes, on some plane, its dreadfulness.

Iterations of Babi Yar

In support of that nostalgia, reference is made to the handful of segregated schools that were the clear exceptions to the dreadfulness associated with segregated schools.

The judicial betrayal of blacks - again: the Supreme Court's destruction of the hopes raised by Brown v. Board of Education

Also, psychometric research suggests that each of these food hazards can be differentiated in terms of familiarity and dreadfulness.

The relationship between sociodemographics and concern about food safety issues

Then, with seven minutes remaining, anarchy descended on a game that had been notable only for the dreadfulness of the play.

Football: KEV BOYS TARN-ISH IT; Leicester 1 Man City 1 fuming Michael puts official on the spot All hell breaks loose after City's

It is interesting that the conversation between Anne and the Admiral begins with a touch: he is so absorbed in the picture of the dreadful boat, fascinated, in fact, by its very dreadfulness, that she "might .

"As she was not really Mrs. Croft": playing the Admiral's wife in Bath

For the sheer awesome dreadfulness of much government schooling in the United States is its own time-bomb, which will continue to tick away relentlessly even if--per impossibile--every other threat to America's social fabric were to cease.

The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education

John Paul knows as well as anyone on the world stage today the dreadfulness of oppressive regimes as well as the horror of war.

Who do we say we are?

Worst-case scenarios for terrorist attacks are dreadful indeed, but this dreadfulness is a property of worst-case scenarios rather than of terrorist attacks as such.

Terrorism, interest-group politics, and public policy: curtailing criminal modes of political speech

The fact that there is no there there adds to the elusive dreadfulness of gothic serial killers like Blank in The First Deadly Sin or John Doe in Seven.

Reconfiguring gothic mythology: The film noir--horror hybrid films of the 1980s

It is time to look beyond the dreadfulness to the charade itself.

The opposite of sex: Sarah Boxer on the photographs of Lewis Carroll. (From the Vault Preview)

The ballad is a tale of adultery and murder in medieval Scotland -- but it conveys the dreadfulness of sin and violence, and I consider it a highly moral work.

Do kids need government censors?

So we've got to direct our actions to finding - despite the dreadfulness of all this - what we can do not just to resurrect hope but to promote it.