Sentences with phrase «more dreadful»

However, I can't think of any more dreadful scene in film history.

Does your Monday start to feel more dreadful week by week?

But has global warming given the storms an added punch, making the aftereffects more dreadful?

In many ways deeply political, Ai Weiwei's work explores the tension in ideology, what he describes «as being between a more interesting state of mind and a more dreadful state of mind.

There may be only a couple of things more dreadful than unexpected emergencies that require some money to fix.

Even more dreadful is the position of the 1 in the larger Kindle font: it ends up in the middle of the word «chapter» when the font is enlarged, and this misplacement happens at the mid-range of the font size, not just in the largest size pictured above.

For shame is to Freedom more dreadful than pain.

Her mother was on a downward spiral and perhaps something far more dreadful than a jail sentence and Paula juvenile experience might never had have happened.

Ruxin (Nick Kroll) is frustrated that his wife still is not putting out many months after delivering their first child — a circumstance all the more dreadful because she does not shut up about the new fullness of her bust and because she has forbidden pornography in their home.

The film finds its widest frame when reality itself becomes more dreadful than any nightmare.

There's nothing more dreadful than waking up early in the morning and having no idea what to wear.

The fate that befell those that attacked Pulka was more dreadful.

It was a cloudy, cold September morning, I recall, not good swimming weather at all, and I was cross with Tony because his stroke was even more dreadful than usual.

Only problem is they made our team look even more dreadful.

He has a presentiment of the dreadful event, that a jealous criticism will many a time let him feel the birch; he trembles at the still more dreadful thought that one or another enterprising scribe, a gulper of paragraphs, who to rescue learning is always willing to do with other peoples» writings what Trop «to save appearances» magnanimously resolved to do, though it were «the destruction of the human race» — that is, he will slice the author into paragraphs, and will do it with the same inflexibility as the man who in the interest of the science of punctuation divided his discourse by counting the words, so that there were fifty words for a period and thirty - five for a semicolon.

I can stand everything — even though that horrible demon, more dreadful than death, the king of terrors, even though madness were to hold up before my eyes the motley of the fool, and I understood by its look that it was I who must put it on, I still am able to save my soul, if only it is more to me than my earthly happiness that my love to God should triumph in me.

A dozen sectaries join arms with one another, they know nothing whatever of the lonely temptations which await the knight of faith and which he dares not shun precisely because it would be still more dreadful if he were to press forward presumptuously.

He acquires as a Christian a courage which the natural man does not know — this courage he acquires by learning fear for the still more dreadful.

«But what was perhaps still more dreadful is that every idea of heaven was taken away from me: I could no longer conceive of anything of the sort.

Is a third possibility a real one, some way of acknowledging the power and value of «fairy» that is not simply to accept either the domestic illusion or the larger and more dreadful nihilistic fantasy?

Imagine: your boyfriend asks you to go shopping because it's so enjoyable; there are no more dreadful checkout lines to wait in; same - day delivery is the standard; and you know exactly how...

The year 1993 was even more dreadful than 1992.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and shows that by the latter measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the GDP numbers that made all the headlines.

Is there anything more dreadful to read than an annual report?

Not exact matches

Otherwise, you might sound like a dreadful blowhard who's more interested in himself than in his audience.

More visible women investors will help to begin to turn around the dreadful track record of diversity in venture capital, they hope.

That's why academics such as Richard Florida have argued that a shift to renting in the U.S. could help address the country's dreadful unemployment rate, since it would make Americans more mobile.

The head of the Catholic Education Service has said it will be «dreadful» if faith schools exploit new... More

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

And, oh, to my thinking this is one expression the more of the dreadfulness of this most dreadful sickness and misery, namely, its hiddenness — not only that he who suffers from it may wish to hide it and may be able to do so, to the effect that it can so dwell in a man that no one, no one whatever discovers it; no, rather that it can be so hidden in a man that he himself does not know it!

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

There is only one thing more fearful than the thought that death ends all: that one is in such dreadful condition that he hopes that death ends all, because he is fearful of what is to come afterward.

We can put aside the struldbrugs in Gulliver's Travels, who had lived for hundreds of years and «who had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.»

My thought is as pure as that of anyone, and the thought of the man who is able to think such things will surely become pure — and if this be not so, he may expect the dreadful; for he who once has evoked these images can not be rid of them again, and if he sins against them, they avenge themselves with quiet wrath, more terrible than the vociferousness of ten ferocious reviewers.

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Only two returning wideouts caught more than 10 passes last year — Kamathi Holsey and Jamarl Eiland — and they combined for a dreadful 40 percent catch rate while averaging just 9.8 yards per catch.

His balance is truly dreadful, and he could get away with it if he plays facing goal more.

BRIGHTON, England (AP) Arsenal completed a dreadful week by losing 2 - 1 at Brighton in the Premier League on Sunday to slip 13 points off the Champions League qualification positions and pile more pressure on manager Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal are believed to be more than happy to wait until the summer to strike a deal for Karius, despite Wojciech Szczesny's dreadful display in the New Year's Day loss to Southampton, but Arsene Wenger will be mindful of the danger of one of their transfer rivals striking a deal with Mainz for an immediate transfer.

The reigning Premier League champions have been on a dreadful run of form of late, but seem set to keep their patience with Pellegrini as they wait one more summer before they can approach Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola.

Silence speaks more than a thousand words and the atmosphere was a perfect resemblance of Wenger — Empty, dreadful, clueless, disbelief!

Liverpool almost win the league despite the dreadful transfer dealings and it's no surprise to me that Rodgers sought to get more control over transfers when negotiating his new contract.

Tottenham have a dreadful record in this fixture, they have lost 19 times away to United, more than any other away tie they have had in their Premier League history.

Two shocking fouls by the big Stoke centre back Ryan Shawcross — whose dreadful foul put Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey out of action for almost a year — should have been far more heavily punished by the referee, Halsey.

Anthony Taylor then unexpectedly endeared himself to Arsenal fans even more by correctly sending off Victor Moses for two yellow cards, the second coming for a dreadful dive.

Our defence was dreadful and that's a compliment — Stoke were definitely unlucky not to have taken all 3 points; they had a definite penalty claim, hit the post, and just looked far more dangerous than we ever did when they came forward and attacked our suspect back line.

Sadly, Ray has, at least to some extent, faded from the Arsenal collective consciousness in a way that many other stars of that Double year haven't — partly I suppose because there were just too many subsequent goals for Liverpool (each one a small dagger to my heart), and partly, and far more seriously, because his dreadful illness impacts on his ability to travel and maintain any kind of profile.

I have a mental image of SuperMac, Keegan arriving by helicopter, Dirty Shearer with one arm raised, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry, that TV series with Jimmy Nail and the bloke who became Inspector Morse's assistant, unintelligible accents, dreadful beer, Gazza, Sir Bobby Robson, Ugly Beardsley, Fat Football fans and much more (add a few if you have the inclination!)