Sentence examples for dreadful pictures from inspiring English sources

The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called him "that man who paints those dreadful pictures". But Mr. Bacon maintained that he was simply a realist and did not aim to shock.

Margaret Thatcher might have dismissed Francis Bacon, Hirst's hero, as "that man who paints those dreadful pictures", but the YBA artist admits that part of his success is due to the enterprising culture she created.

To complete the dreadful picture the Mets painted yesterday, they had only four hits, though Burnitz, one of the players the Mets need to come back from a poor season, rapped two doubles.

There were a few obvious money-making ploys: Michael Bay's "Armageddon," was issued in a director-approved, two-disc set that aficionados (this one included) bought to hear Mr. Bay and the producer Jerry Bruckheimer justify the notoriously dreadful picture on the accompanying commentary.

Without this set-up savvy, you might be left looking at an absolutely dreadful picture and wondering why you wasted all that money.

Scrivner's story—sexual abuse, a negligent mother, depression, early drug use, and a collection of addict-convict boyfriends is a perfect, dreadful picture of how a troubled person making bad choices can have her life further destroyed by lunatic drug laws.

Easily recognizable, these misfortunate forces serve up dreadful mental pictures of past and future events for the sake of the unnatural reactions they produce.

"Our report paints a dreadful, shocking picture of care in the UK - we're letting women and their babies down.

That's part of this dreadful social picture that we inhabit.

Through Nov. 9 Haunted by the ghosts of Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Francis Bacon, the German painter Gustav Kluge pictures a dreadful human condition with mordantly comical gloom.

You know how it is; you meet someone once, feel obliged to accept their friend request and then have to put up with their dreadful status updates and pictures of their holidays forever more.