Sentence examples for dreadful periods from inspiring English sources

Despite dreadful periods, such as the 1970s, it has suffered nothing as monumental as Mao or Stalin.

Congress is passing through a dreadful period.

I have many stories to tell about that dreadful period.

There was a dreadful period of adjustment, but 'I was prudent.

Ciaran was the right age to experience that, before the whole thing fell apart and you got the long, long dreadful period of the Troubles".

This has been a dreadful period and there have been times where you can feel almost guilty for any forward thinking.

Walken has more experience of pre-fame life than many of his peers – he was 35 when he made The Deer Hunter, his breakthrough role, prior to which he had never made more than $11,000 a year from acting, including one dreadful period when he was out of work for two straight years.

I think it's been a dreadful period for them".

I wanted to write a drama that would bring to life the brutality of that dreadful period.

According to one source, the situation at The New York Times is "beginning to reach Howell Raines-like proportions," referring to the dreadful period of stewardship in which serial plagiarizer Jayson Blair torpedoed the Times' credibility.

Today, though, they took a giant step back to the late 19th century, a dreadful period in American history (that Mark Twain dubbed The Gilded Age) in which corporations--industrial, financial, and railroad--ran pretty much everything, from state legislatures (which they bought with impunity) and governors to Congress and the judiciary.