Notwithstanding the dreadful subject matter of Greek tragedies, the language in these plays is confidently assumed to be able to forge morality.
Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason.
Still, the targeting of children because of their ethnic background, their sex, their family's political beliefs, is dreadful no matter where it occurs.
It's a dreadful, dreadful thing".
The justice minister, Dermot Ahern, promised that "the persons who committed these dreadful crimes — no matter when they happened — will continue to be pursued".
No matter what dreadful things Stuart did or what horror he suffered, he was not to be mollycoddled or monstered or let off any hooks.
In a 1971 essay describing her passion for philately, Rand reflected that "no matter how dreadful some of mankind's activities might be, here is a field in which men are functioning reasonably, efficiently and successfully".
Lispector's relationship with religion was complex but she had a mystic's regard for any level of perception that transcended blinkered normality, no matter how dreadful the revelation.
In front of an audience of 800 Annie described how her grandmother still looks the same, still dances to the radio, ice-skates backwards and lets her watch TV programmes no matter "how dreadful" they are.
Clothes, no matter how dreadful, drape themselves around him, knowing that they have come home at last". And there is much intimate material, of course, about the woman he sometimes calls "Glorious", sometimes "One-take", now and then "Fatty", once "Slowtake" – Elizabeth Taylor, whom he palpably adores, despite the booze-induced volatility of their relationship.
There, no matter how dreadful the elements, groups of weather-beaten Russians huddled around a succession of chess boards as the players pushed around the pieces, carefully pondering each move as though the future course of the motherland were at stake.
