Sentence examples for an enormity from inspiring English sources

That's why he called the Holocaust an enormity.

Having committed an enormity, how does the priest go on with the rest of his life?

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is an enormity worth recalling; and yet the tone of Grass's novel is oddly peevish.

By any moral or amoral measure, the harm we humans visit upon most of the animals who come within our sight (and sights) is an enormity.

If those orders are followed, it will mark a significant change.It is natural to expect an enormity to be a turning point.

The road to Cairo followed the Suez Canal, through Pepsi-sponsored roadblocks, past an enormity of scrubby desert scavenged by thousands of hunched, shrouded figures.

What has been widely cited as the "environmentalist" orientation of Aronofsky's version of the Noah story (which he co-wrote with his longtime friend Ari Handel) is more like a Christianized nightmare of an Old Testament enormity come to life.

Both are matters of design: a set of crystalline trees that suggest the aesthetic exaltations of the horrors posed by the gene-splicing space invaders, and a final conflagration of a overwrought enormity that runs just a few moments but suggests nonetheless the proximity of the ridiculous to the sublime.

When the felt value of life increases, a small death toll can add up to a large sense of loss, and a large death toll can add up to an incomprehensible enormity.

But since Mr Reeve's crime involved child pornography, and his job was teaching physical education in a school, the level of panic and the potential fallout is almost without limit.Memories of an earlier enormity are one reason for the hysteria.

Brooding on his days in Auschwitz, Levi wrote that "man, the human species -- we, in short -- had the potential to construct an infinite enormity of pain and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort.