Her half-sister Caroline's recent death, on the other hand, was, "by a million miles, awful, the worst thing that's ever happened to me".
To make his case, Shirky recounts some very questionable history and employs some selective interpretation to get from his own impression of the current Hachette-Amazon dispute (about which he says "Amazon's tactics are awful, the worst possible in fact") to a completely different conclusion.
"Escorting all those people out the door was awful, the worst moments of my life," says Jacob Cherner, who oversees Beal's lending and debt purchases.
Interferon made the patients feel awful — like the worst flu.
The weather was awful - the worst start to June on record - but we managed to plod through it.
Jones-Drew is an elite all-around back, but he's particularly valuable because the rest of this Jaguars offense is, at best, unproven and, at worst, awful.
The Tweets displayed dubious taste and awful judgment, but worst of all did little to end injury speculation: Foster is questionable for Sunday.
But unfortunately, ironically, that came "to a thundering halt" when she fell into an awful depression, the worst she had had since the early 1980s.
The best devices are awful and the worst devices are unusable.
An 18-year-old boy with a fringe who wants to tell you about The Sherlocks: awful, terrible, the worst.
