Sentence examples for awfully real from inspiring English sources

Certain shots in his Depression-era prizefight movie Hard Times are reminiscent of Edward Hopper and George Bellows; its New Orleans demi-monde is richly detailed; and Barry De Vorzon's soundtrack is soaked in Cajun music and jazz – and yet this is a two-fisted Charles Bronson punch-up movie, in which all blows are painfully amplified and the blood seems awfully real.

It's determination to be the master of our thoughts and not let the lies we tell ourselves destroy our happiness in a moment simply because the wiring was set into place many years ago and the dialogue feels awfully real.

But it is the destroyed car that speaks most awfully of horrors real and anticipated.

And some of it brushes up awfully closely to real reports that may never be humor-eligible.

To extend the academic comparison, it's also awfully light on the real-world, everyday experience of religion.

And real is an awfully flexible word.

OK, not a real film studio, but awfully close.

And Stuart Archer Cohen writes this thriller with signs of real conviction, but he sounds awfully smitten with the tough-guy tactics that insurrectionists take.

The real story was that James Farrands was awfully small potatoes, a tool and die machinist who ran the Klan from the national headquarters in his garage.

Mr. Cohen wrote the thriller with signs of real conviction, Janet Maslin says, but he sounds awfully smitten with the tough-guy tactics that insurrectionists take.

For someone who at first has no "real desires of my own," Mari is awfully quick to embrace those of a sadistic older man whom she first encounters as he's being thrown out of the hotel.