Sentence examples for awful kind from inspiring English sources
This film is pregnant with ideas, and an awful kind of disquiet.
"I worshipped her," Porter says, simply; her death was a loss so catastrophic that, he believes, his mind perpetrated "an awful kind of excision" to deal with it.
His face is etched with agony and an awful kind of abject adoration, forever trying to find ways to forgive the loved one in advance for rejection.
If Officer Carroll's rationale for the stop was dubious — and it was certainly within the norm of a dubious practice — his subsequent testimony made an awful kind of sense.
With insufficient funding and lack of necessary anti-poaching infrastructure, an awful kind of Sophie/s Choice is having to be made – entire herds, entire populations of elephant herds are just being lost fast, significantly because very finite resources are being used to save other populations elsewhere.
Athill will argue that there are two kinds of physical betrayal: the "awful" kind that marks a breakdown in a relationship, and the second kind, an unfaithful act that takes place when someone, "usually the man", succumbs to a little temptation.
But, he adds, "You can strive to get the number as low as possible, and avoid the 'lawful but awful' kinds of deadly force incidents that we have seen too many times".
The fat one, Lawrence Krauser's "Lemon," is awful, the kind of first novel in which a callow youth loses a girlfriend and endures, with much self-pity, a boring office job.
"Paris is simply awful — a kind of continuous earth-quake of motor-busses, trams, lorries, taxis & other howling & swooping & colliding engines, with hundreds & thousands of U.S. citizens rushing about in them," she wrote.
The basic problem, as I now understand, is that the inside of your chimney, which is the only thing that stands between a cozy intentional fire and the awful unintentional kind, is invisible to the naked eye.
After the war, Wharton tired of Paris, writing to Bernard Berenson, "Paris is simply awful — a kind of continuous earth-quake of motor-busses, trams, lorries, taxis & other howling & swooping & colliding engines, with hundreds & thousands of U.S. citizens rushing about in them".
