Sentence examples for Awful children from inspiring English sources

Everywhere, there are awful people and their awful children.

In 1971, the general feeling from the audience was: "Poor old guy with those two awful children – what a very unfair thing".

The woman who'd been watching the two awful children was there at the pool again, and the two children themselves had returned to the water.

I would have baulked at it, perhaps, if it weren't for a dispiriting totter down Regent Street last week, wondering why Christmas lights couldn't just be Christmas lights and not also advertisements for some awful Ben Stiller movie for awful children.

The first time I went to the River Cafe, I'd been in Bath, a place I now loathe but where, in a fit of temporary insanity, I'd gone with a truly terrible man to meet his awful children, who were as unimpressed with me as I was with them.

True, Williams's Deep South saga has its comic moments, especially when the dramatist brings onstage caricatures of inheritance-hunters and their awful children; but neither the impending death of the object of their greed, Big Daddy Pollitt, nor the despair of the old man's favorite son seems particularly hilarious.

When Antigone enters, they immediately empathise, "o you poor awful child of poor awful Oidipous".

Apparently, some awful child had sung some ugly hurtful song about the young storks.

We sat on the sofa and were made to feel like we had a uniquely awful child, and we thought we were uniquely deficient parents.

A report into hundreds of cases of "indescribably awful" child sexual exploitation in Oxfordshire has revealed a series of grave failings by the authorities – showing that social workers and police effectively turned a blind eye to the endemic abuse.

When Matilda is sent to her room as punishment (the awful child keeps reading), she rather plaintively and sweetly climbs up to the bookshelf above her bed and perches there while singing her song.