Sentence examples for enormity a from inspiring English sources

The tactful sheathing of the towers was intended to reduce the direct threat of such straight-edge enormity, a giantism that eased over the years into something a little more familiar and comfortable, even dependable in a way.

Paradoxically, despite its enormity (a scale transcending even that of the Amun-Re Precinct of Luxor's Karnak Temple Complex), there is no way to incorporate this amorphous zone into the daily rhythms of shared urban existence.

The 12-hour NBC miniseries (8 p.m. Sunday, 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 8 p.m. Thursday on Channels 4, 36 and 39) is a grandly staged enormity, a simply gorgeous spectacle--filmed in Tunisia and richly colored in sepia and gold--about clashing Romans, Christians and Jews in the years immediately after the death of Christ.

It can be a refusal to show forgiveness, even symbolically, for the enormities a company perpetrated.

But even the most technologically advanced societies have limits to the enormities a mind can bear.

It would even give Richard Serra's steel enormities a run for their money: not least because, for all its size, the whale has such an unexpected delicacy.

Man On a Mission John Mackey exuded the kind of timeless, placeless enormity of a man on a mission.

But, without wishing anyone ill, imagine how interesting it would be if the boastful leg-over merchants and their wronged partners were to sprout some comic physical enormity - a long nose or a bulbous crotch - if they wrote a tell-all diary or a vengeful memoir.

Loosey-goosey defenders can insist "it's not a mistake" to use enormity as a synonym for "huge," or even the childlike "humongous," but those who care for clarity in communication to the widest audience will respect the distinction: enormousness is always "bigness"; enormity is often associated with "badness".

This would have made escape difficult and would have increased the chances of a bystander's getting killed, thus raising a simple holdup to the enormity of a capital offence.

In her brief "Wire & Wool" (2009), an amplified cello seems to scream in pain, as her emphasis on the processes involved — bow on string, hands on wood — gives the act of playing the drama and enormity of a ship grating on an iceberg.