Sentence examples for dreadful machine from inspiring English sources

"The whole of the Oedipus Tyrannus, that dreadful machine, moves towards the discovery of just one thing, that he did it.

This film is fascinating when it concentrates on apes or machines ... and dreadful when it deals with the in-betweens: humans ...2001, for all its lively visual and mechanical spectacle, is a kind of space-Spartacus and, more pretentious still, a shaggy God story".

Not only does my new purchase print efficiently, it does so at a quality that is indisputably superior to the printers of 10 years ago, let alone to those dreadful daisy-wheel and dot-matrix machines from the 1970s and 1980s.

"It was during that football match that, after all the dreadful things he had experienced, they were mown down by machine-gun fire [from German aircraft].

We bought nose and mouth protectors when we saw the dreadful environment, and we took a whole lot of secondhand machines from a firm in Jönköping [in Sweden] and installed them in Poland instead".

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".

Just dreadful!

Dreadful shot.

Dreadful creature!