Sentence examples for dreadful power from inspiring English sources

We understand better how the government sustains its dreadful power, and where that power could be faltering.

The ambivalence of its style, caught between figurative accuracy and the modernist daring of its age (it was unveiled in 1925) enhances its dreadful power.

Tortorella immediately installed Morris on the Rangers' dreadful power play and did the same for Antropov, who brings a 6-foot-6 frame and a good scoring touch from Toronto.

And enough with these dreadful power dirges!

As it was, the Rangers continued to be dreadful on the power play in the dying minutes.

Just as the therapist, we must face the difficult task of confronting the dreadful abuse of power.

St . Louispolished off Columbus and Chicago early last week by 5-1 scores, and the power play, dreadful for most of the season, clicked for 6 goals in 13 chances.

Between the two main actors and the directorial torque applied, it's a desperately sad, fantastically menacing, wholly destabilising hour that provides an inescapably dreadful sense of the power of the internet to magnify and enshrine what once were experienced, if you were merely moderately lucky, as the casual, fleeting cruelties of childhood.

Morris agrees, but resents the sacrifice, and this precipitates the terrible, gorgeous conclusion, in which the actors not only "act" out the stereotypes of race but use the scrim of performance, of pretense, to reveal the truth about their fury, their subjugation, and the dreadful, distorting nature of power.

An astute and balanced performance by a great synthesizer of history, packing into 906 pages the age in which humanity gained immense control over its own destiny, for better or worse, and used much of its new power in dreadful ways.

Other legislation, including the dreadful Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005 had little or nothing to do with terrorism.