Sentence examples for constitutes terrible from inspiring English sources

I reject the old paradigm about what constitutes terrible behavior.

Cutting back and forth in time and among characters' points of view, Mr. Turow constructs two story lines that dovetail with implacable momentum: one involves the events leading to Barbara's death; the other recounts what constitutes a terrible case of déjà vu for Rusty — another murder trial in which he is once again defended by the brilliant Sandy Stern.

I'm not about to suggest a 12-year-old can solve the Middle East's problems, but the distance between the wisdom in that sanctuary and the warring words of the modern-day absolutists of Israel-Palestine cleaving too close to the fire was so immense as to constitute a terrible betrayal — of youth and its hopes above all.

Shifting as the mood requires from pleading to hurtful to angry, Blethyn makes you feel the way in which suicide may be a form of solace for the person who commits it but can also constitute a terrible revenge on those left behind.

It is going to be terrible.

Singer's moving book, haunted from the beginning by its terrible end, constitutes a revolt against the anonymity of the Holocaust's grim statistics.

In both, a wall of wine bottles, including those of the ironically named house wine, Terrible (it's actually quite good), constitutes the primary design feature.

What constitutes male, what constitutes female?

It constitutes moral abdication.

What constitutes not trying?

What constitutes success?