The phrase "awful creature" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that is perceived as very unpleasant or frightening.
Example: "The children were terrified by the awful creature lurking in the shadows of the forest."
Alternatives: "terrible being" or "dreadful entity".
The touch of his magic arrow would make Psyche fall in love with this awful creature.
A visceral reaction, going hand in hand with the mental revulsion that awful creature caused and keeps causing, because nothing in the world exists except himself, because he doesn't care for anybody, doesn't see that he is made in the image and mold of man, a person like others; that we are all the bloody same in our needs and desires and claim to respect.
Once again dinosaurs, those awful creatures that are invariably said to have "roamed the earth" millions of years ago, receive cartoon treatment.
If it were agreed that national pride is inherently racist, we'd have much more to talk about this Olympic season than mosquitoes being the most fucking awful creatures on this earth.
As he tells us in the memoir of his boyhood, he had once, in a youthful nightmare, confronted an "awful agent, creature or presence, whatever he was," and pursued him, to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning, down a gleaming gallery of the Louvre.
Despite mankind's mastery of planet Earth, there are still an awful lot of creatures out there willing to kill (and even eat) you if given half a chance.
In a performance devoid of sentimentality she perfectly captures the awful solitude of a creature who exists outside time.
According to Karen Durbin of Elle, she "evokes Eli's radical apartness with an air of watchful caution and a contained stillness of body that not only belies her childish appearance ", and "In a performance devoid of sentimentality she perfectly captures the awful solitude of a creature who exists outside time".
