Sentence examples for a monstrous thing from inspiring English sources

Acquiring such a star, Walsh said then, "would be a monstrous thing for this franchise".

"If it's really true," said Marina Ivanis, 22, a clerk in a Batajnica clothing store, "it's a monstrous thing.

He said it was a "monstrous thing" that poor women were seeking breast lifts when they had trouble making ends meet.

As Walsh said the day he was hired as the Knicks' team president last spring, having cap space "would be a monstrous thing" for the franchise.

And at the end of Act III, when Marguerite succumbs to Faust's entreaties and Méphistophélès laughs in triumph, another gigantic figure appears, this one a monstrous thing in a black cloak.

To get a proper feel of things, I'd driven to the muster in a rented Toyota Hilux dual-cab ute – a monstrous thing that, like a surly horse, seemed to sense it was being handled by an amateur.

The idea that we could ever have a president who could simply get everything he wanted and surmount all checks on his power is a truly monstrous thing to contemplate.

Enter in The Babadook, a pop-up book about a mysterious and monstrous thing that knocks three times at your door...and well, I'll leave it at that as this plot is not entirely what it seems.

"He built a skyscraper, but not the monstrous thing a skyscraper was to become later," Wright was quoted as saying about Hardenbergh's hotel, which was completed in 1907.

Unlike the facility in Brooklyn, where the loading platform floated and bobbed up and down with the tide, Jersey City's is an oily, clanging, monstrous thing, with winches and chains that raise or lower the track bed.

De Sica's late masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) is most suffused with nostalgia; based on Giorgio Bassani's melancholy novel, it's a study of what WB Yeats described as "that monstrous thing, returned and yet unrequited love".