Sentence examples for dreadful era from inspiring English sources
WHEN Desiderius Erasmus was born around 1466, the Christian West was on the brink of a dreadful era of religious conflict, pitting Catholics against various shades of Protestant Reformers.
Dalton Trumbo was one of the heroes of the dreadful McCarthy era.
In Act IV we have the dreadful Soviet-era happy ending, with the Prince and Rothbart, in the guise of an owl, ineffectually jeté-ing at each other in a lame ballet version of a duel, before the hero tears off one of the sorcerer's wings, reduces him to a heap, and restores Odette to human form.
As the show's press notes point out, many popular Victorian novels started out as serialized magazine stories, and it's not a stretch to say that those tales and the long-running "penny dreadful" publications of the era were akin to the hit TV shows of their time.
Instead, his formative years saw the most dreadful blunders of the Maoist era: the calamitous Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the mad schemes of the Gang of Four.
Attempts to ask Moyes specifically about Ashley Young, whose poor performance against City compounded a dreadful start to the new era at Old Trafford for the 28-year-old were cut short by his press secretary, though the manager said it would take some players time to adapt to new methods and a new regime.
Inspired by the era's penny dreadfuls, Maks seeks out a dying private detective to help him discover the true thief.
My work has taken me to Auschwitz and Hiroshima, and I have come to see these two dreadful events as largely defining our era.
Yet part of us secretly yearns for some Life on Mars era that in reality was pretty dreadful.
The Bush era in particular spawned some truly dreadful "political" albums from acts who were either systematic system-haters or those who'd recently been inspired to be so.
