Sentence examples for awful odds from inspiring English sources
If anything, the more daunting the physical landscape, the more riveting the stories of BP workers struggling against awful odds.
And some give us the assurance or inspiration that we can stand up to danger and prevail, even against terrible odds and awful scenarios.
Finally, Drumline, about a Harlem kid stirring up a sedate southern university's marching band, promises to be one of those awful, against-all-odds "uplift" movies, but turns out to be much more concerned with chasin' booty and the shapeliness of cheerleaders' asses.
The odds are so awful that even mild success is sometimes lavishly rewarded: Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for playing Dorothy Dandridge, and Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator".
The only thing predictable about the service is that it's always awful: the train you want is odds-on to be late or cancelled.
Considered one of the new generation of Irish writers - a label he thinks "awful" - the 55-year-old is the odds-on favourite to win this year's Booker prize.
Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger called the episode "just an awful lot of fun", and wrote having Michael and Dwight at odds with each other "forced both characters to be just human enough for the story and the jokes to breathe".
In 2006, Simon Carless of GameSetWatch remarked that online communities were fascinated with Rogers as an originator of New Games Journalism, which Carless found at odds with their mistreatment of him, citing a Something Awful mock review of Sonic Riders.
Taha H. al-Shebeeb, an Iraqi writer of 10 novels whose politically tinged work often put him at odds with Mr. Hussein's government, called the current plans "an awful retreat".
The silver spoon lifestyle might seem at odds with other hip-hop movements around the world, and it does translate to some pretty awful music the majority of the time, but that doesn't mean the scene should necessarily be ignored a lot of people like awful music.
