Sentence examples for dreadful to think of from inspiring English sources

He said every 12 hours; but how dreadful to think of their standing 12 hours over a boiling cauldron, and doing the same thing; and he owned to me that sometimes they did fall asleep and get their poor fingers into the mill; and he shewed me the hatchet that was always ready to sever the whole limb, as the only means of saving the poor sufferer's life!

The reaction that makes sense in thinking about the facts of death is not to find it as some great mystery too dreadful to think about, too overwhelming.

"It's dreadful to think what Glasgow might be like without it.

I know: It's dreadful to think about.

It was dreadful to watch; worse to think of him in the Oval Office.

Many struggle to find a comparable degenerative disorder to associate with Huntington's, but we encourage them to think of each disease as its own dreadful condition.

Those people who we do not care to think of, yet it must be true that sometimes dreadful tyrannies were all that liberated the victims of other dreadful tyrannies.

Dire and disorienting, idiotic and inexplicable -- but also sort of temporary, solvable and, if we're lucky, not as openly dreadful as we like to think.

Instead of muddling along from one crisis to another, now is the time to think again about those dreadful lessons of a century ago — in the hope that our leaders, with our encouragement, will think about how they can work together to build a stable international order.

It's almost like the whole thing is so dreadful that no one can think of anything else! Fire up your Hillary Clinton casting wish list now.

The first is to think how shaming, how dreadful, how could I have written such drivel?