Sentences with phrase «awfulness of»

These are but a few examples of the awfulness of Auschwitz.

The author is frank and open about her own odyssey through the betrayal and provides the reader with exacting details about how the awfulness of the discovery later became the opening for a new and better relationship with her husband.

After adding his name to the long list of those who have despaired at the sheer gosh - awfulness of so much of the writing produced by lawyers - as - lawyers, he posits blogging as a promising cure:

They may in fact have peaked with the retrospective's earliest work, right around when Stingel encountered the awfulness of America.

It would have been amazing but all the connectivity issues (plus the general awfulness of OS X media servers circa 2007) shut that idea down.

It all culminates in the awfulness of Chapter 10, «End Of Days,» which sees Isaac running back and forth through a suspiciously small area and fighting way too many goddamned Necromorphs, all while — literally — searching for keycards.

None of the characters are interesting, and the dialogue is just a series of F - bombs and ho - hum observations about the awfulness of corporations.

Not disputing the bite or the awfulness of the incident, just the stupidity of calling that dog a pitbull

Under what other auspices could one possibly endorse the howling awfulness of, say, Pit Bulls vs. Aliens?

But among those elements there may be something new and strange to which one is not accustomed, and which one may not be able to assimilate oneself, as an adult, because of the sheer awfulness of the rest of the stuff; but the innocence — I suppose there is no other word — of the child's eye can take or leave in a way that I feel an adult can not, and can acquire valuable stimuli from things which appear otherwise overgrown with a mass of weeds and nonsense.

Or they mitigate the awfulness of what happened to them, because the full weight of it would kill them if they stopped to absorb it.

No volume of bad music can distract you from the sheer awfulness of a climactic scene set at a beachfront property and featuring a short turn from perhaps the worst actor ever put in a mainstream film.

At the very least, enjoy the awfulness of the direction.

So this is the big question, then: Are so many American men so oppressed by the «horrors» of modern life — high cholesterol, uppity wives, smartass children, cell phones, boring jobs, the general dead - eyed awfulness of suburbia — that they need a stupid movie like this one to tell them that if they don't like their lives they should do something about it?

Indeed, despite its intermittent calamities and constant life - or - death tension, The Martian has a degree of humor uncharacteristic of a Scott film, including a running gag about the awfulness of the disco tracks that were left behind with Watney.

Although I'm a sucker for the guilty - pleasure trashy awfulness of Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil 7 surprised everyone by actually being a really great game.

Franco's movie ends with Wiseau and others in the audience of the premiere, mouths agape with horror at the awfulness of the movie and the initial confusion of the audience.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is more corn fed, out in the open, unforgiving, sun - scorched plains of Oklahoma, with shades of dark comedy that allow us to pull back from the brink every now and again, and laugh at the damned awfulness of it all.

I've written before about the near - vertical trajectory (in a bad way) of M. Night Shyamalan's career over the past decade, from the idiocies of The Village to the did - that - really - happen awfulness of The Happening to the generic ineptitude of The Last Airbender.

Another movie about the awfulness of the» burbs.

But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).

The awfulness of The Poseidon Adventure, I guess, helped to prevent it from being true collectivist cinema.

Perhaps I held out hope that it would get better, or maybe I was just mesmerized by the awfulness of it all.

For all of its awfulness of character, Listen Up Philip never lags.

Even better, it wipes away the toxic awfulness of Evolution.

Although Allen's self - centred male characters have often been paradoxically sympathetic, the director here repeatedly fails to even acknowledge the awfulness of his lead.

Crying out for help in a genuinely tragic blue jacket, she unleashes an angst - ridden monologue about the transcendent awfulness of her life, shortly before hitting the rewind button and filling us in on how she got to this very dark (and very funny) place.

Baumbach's movie encourages you to make an emotional investment in the authenticity of love and marriage, or at any rate, Josh and Cornelia's love and marriage, and to save your amused cynicism for the awfulness of careerist obsession.

They're protecting each other; Mister wants to stop Pete from seeing the awfulness of the world, and Pete gives Mister a reason to fight to the next day.

The Haunting is not your usual garden - variety bad movie: it does not merely cause the viewers cringe in pain and abject anguish at the sheer awfulness of it; no, it squarely lands into the «so bad it's good» area, being not merely terrible but laughably so.

But then «Toast» is set in the dreary back end of England (at first I thought this might be the 50's until a random group of hippies are shown on a pier and the great use of Dusty Springfield songs) which is quite possibly hell for any aspiring foodie, if the reported awfulness of English food is / was anything to go by.

There are many ways to define the shrieking awfulness of The Family Stone, from the general lack of wit to the cheap exploitation of cancer to its casual cruelty.

Her personal abrasiveness, the public awfulness of her mother, her lack of education, her lack of money: her coarseness is contrary to the fantasy image figure skaters are «supposed» to project, of privilege and elegance and grace.

And if for a few seconds I can not think about the awfulness of said things, I'm going to take it.

But would Labour's pro-reform people rage at the awfulness of the Brown proposal, or meekly knuckle under?

To quote Paulinlincs, those sceptical, including myself are instead engaging in «blaming others in the Left for not thinking through the awfulness of everything properly», which is much nearer the truth.

While we could argue the awfulness of Houston at length, the public perception may have shifted the line and created value on the Over.

Eventually I realised that I couldn't keep ignoring the awfulness of the egg and dairy industries, and decided to go vegan.

For others the recognition of the awfulness of the situation breaks down their defenses.

I had bee n wanting to discuss the phenomenon of the COEXIST bumper stickers and this piece of the of the awfulness of the last few days is merely giving me an excuse to give vent on the subject.

Unfortunately, man (me included) does not understand the purity of God and the awfulness of sin with the tendency to excuse sin in various ways, mostly by excusing what seems to them as not being «so bad».

Mez had a very difficult background, but his life changed when the Bible «confronted him» with the «awfulness of our sinful condition before a just and holy God».

What hearing could he gain if he stood in this pulpit today, or in any pulpit in America, and spoke to us now about our depravity and corruption, about our unfreedom and the determination of our lives, about the ineffable gloriousness of God, and about the awfulness of his wrath?

In a pair of particularly venomous columns National Journal editor and Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly not only derided antiwar protesters as those «unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of «Amerika» or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars,» but he also attacked pacifists as «liars,» «frauds» and «hypocrites,» whose views are «objectively pro-terrorist» and «evil.»

Among the project's loftier goals is mitigating the awfulness of modern air travel.

Not exact matches

Chen believes that the community will be the most important part of the app in the long term, but it will turn into a cesspool of Internet awfulness without proper moderation.

Congratulations to Mr. Adam Sandler, whose film Grown Ups 2 leads all nominations for this year's Razzie Awards — an honor that recognizes excellence in awfulness — garnering a total of eight noms including worst picture.

And that bleaching has not produced a more tolerant people, but a far more intolerant civic life, of which the recent awfulness in Charlottesville, Virginia, may stand as a vile symbol.

Religion was portrayed as a force of unremitting awfulness, a poisoned root from which no good fruit could grow.

It is as if John heaped together every terrible thing in one composite picture of awfulness.