Sentence examples for dreadful affairs from inspiring English sources

The book festivals are dreadful affairs that are less about literature than about grasping authors and agents in straw hats and linen jackets trying desperately to flog you their contribution to the country's endless and bottomless sea of fiction.

The band's early music videos have been described as "dreadful affairs" and have been maligned for their poor quality, particularly by the band itself.

Those dreams of NBA glory will eventually meet reality, and we'll be left with the slowly dawning realization that most of the 41 games played at the Barclays Center this season could well be plodding, dreadful affairs.

Any hint of a cover-up by the BBC of its own role in this dreadful affair will cause huge damage to public and audience trust".

Yet the only one who bore the consequences in this dreadful affair was Amadou Diallo, who did nothing wrong, except maybe make the fatal error of pulling out a wallet the officers said they mistook for a gun.

It was a dreadful affair, as these things usually are, where the film-makers are plied with cheap drink and shuffled from screenings to interviews to dinner in a dire cafe, followed by bed in the B&B "where Barry Humphries stayed, and he didn't complain".

Life for them was a dreadful affair, which drove them to the limits of their strength and endurance.

"They are very brave people who in many cases were just buying a cup of coffee and they got caught up in this dreadful affair.

Cozy as it is, her apartment offers no protection against dreadful love affairs.

They were short stories, and they were dreadful, Kafkaesque affairs; they appeared in obscure magazines that soon afterwards ceased publication".

It's a dreadful, dreadful thing".