Sentence examples for awful bore from inspiring English sources

Usually the adversary has a minor role, serving only to prod the speaker into extended comment on the issue (vice or folly) at hand; he may be sketchily defined, or he may be as effectively projected as Horace's Trebatius (Satires, II, i) or his awful bore (I, vi) or his slave Davus, who turns the tables on his master (II, vii).

Usually the adversary has a minor role, serving only to prod the speaker into extended comment on the issue (vice or folly) at hand; the adversary may be sketchily defined or may be as effectively projected as Horace's Trebatius (Satires, II, i) or his awful bore (I, vi) or his slave Davus, who turns the tables on his master (II, vii).

He caught the tail end of an awful Bears swoon -- the N.F.L.'s worst record in the 1990's.

It's to connect and inspire us and make us feel human when life feels too awful to bear.

The prospect of the comedown, an achy, twitching sadness where you can't stop thinking about a bad thing you said three-and-a‑half years ago, seems too awful to bear.

Here is the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf on the free speech issues at play in the Yale protests: In "The Coddling of the American Mind," Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt argued that too many college students engage in "catastrophizing," which is to say, turning common events into nightmarish trials or claiming that easily bearable events are too awful to bear.

The ramifications and the possibilities of that unfortunate kid's life are just too awful to bear thinking about.

They bore the awful name of Laugh-o-Grams.

Uncle Richard's gropings in her adolescence seem to her "not awful", but just "a bore" and, while everyone is watchfully aware of his proclivities, any idea of rebuking him or, still less, informing on him is never remotely considered.

"What an awful burden to bear".

The attention mostly buoys her, but sometimes it can feel like an awful lot to bear.