Sentence examples for a great terrible from inspiring English sources

I never felt that what he'd done was a great, terrible thing, except that he should've come out with it right away and said: fuck it, man.

Everyone has a favorite good bad movie; "Magnolia" is a rare case of a great terrible movie... "The Green Mile," as perhaps you've gathered, is about good and evil, miracles and redemption, and I sat through it in a misery of embarrassment and irritation, increased by the sure knowledge that the movie will give comfort, and possibly even strength, to millions of people.

Topeka was a great and terrible place.

So, is this a great or terrible thing?

But some names allow fewer connotations, a great or terrible event wiping out all previous meaning.

(Ages 10 and up) 7 1 A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, by Libba Bray.

Prince William described D-day as "a great and terrible day".

(Ages 10 and up) 10 11 A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, by Libba Bray.

The bank failures and bailouts of the fall of '08 called to mind a great and terrible battle.

It wasn't the quality of the coverage but the sheer volume of it that was so notable, such a great and terrible thing.

He says 6 June 1944 was "a great and terrible day": Great because it signalled the beginning of the end of Nazism.