Sentence examples for awful power from inspiring English sources

When you spend all your time in the hospital, you are overwhelmed by the awful power of disease.

They bow the knee to the volcano; they draw strength from its awful power but also cower and convert their fear into religious myths.

She used the drug herself, and the photos show her ageing some 30 years over a five-year period: cheeks sinking, eyes turning glassy, teeth rotting.Utah proves methamphetamine's awful power.

Imagination— here the Power so called Through sad incompetence of human speech, That awful Power rose from the mind's abyss Like an unfathered vapour that enwraps, At once, some lonely traveller.

At the end of "Lenin's Embalmers," Zbarsky speculates that he and his father escaped death during one of the most dangerous periods in modern history because they were, ironically, so close to the source of the awful power that destroyed millions of other people.

The Devils' awful power play -- ranked last in the N.H.L. -- converted twice in seven attempts, breaking an 0-for-17 drought and improving to 5 for 58 for the season.... Edmonton forward TODD MARCHANT was helped from the ice after blocking a shot by the Devils' SCOTT GOMEZ in the third period.

Throughout, Gotthelf keeps his readers aware of the rhythms of nature, so the awful powers unleashed here seem to arise out of the eternal order of creation, a great storm of evil combining the destructive forces of the natural world and the self-destructive force of human nature after the Fall.

CEREMONY: The L-Shaped Man (Matador) I stopped listening to Ceremony when they started making god-awful power-violence albums and when it became time to become a respectable member of society.

The stench of hanging and flogging that drifts in the steamy Louisiana air of 12 Years a Slave makes watching occasionally unbearable – I looked away more than once; not a criticism (we are worlds away from the exploitational tones of Django Unchained), more an acknowledgement of the film's awful raw power.

Wade Michael Page – a former soldier and known neo-Nazi who played guitar in a predictably awful white-power band – walked up to the Oak Creek Sikh Temple in Wisconsin and shot dead six worshippers, wounding three others.

"Let's face it the D.A.'s office has an awful lot of power".