Sentence examples for enormity in from inspiring English sources

The cognate enormity in my youth was 'The New Math'.

Was it cherry?" Mitchell paused for a moment to contemplate either the flavor or the enormity in front of him, but innocence won out and he tossed the ball into his father's lap.

The "they" is the neoconservatives, embodied by a weaselly Greg Kinnear (playing some combination of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer and Douglas Feith) and capable of any enormity in the pursuit of their objectives.

The enormity in the ranks of the growing numbers of those going hungry is real and depressing.

As a child, I repeatedly read about Wadlow's enormity in the first several pages of the annual Guinness World Records books.

While the story of Bernie Madoff's crime fascinates in its complicated enormity, In God We Trust provides a coherent narrative of events that begs more questions than it can answer.

Mindful of the church's long history of anti-Semitism, Leon Wieseltier, the New Republic literary editor and Jewish scholar, noted: "Why would the Catholic Church wish to defend itself by referring to other enormities in which it was also implicated?

It was, as it turned out, one of those fantastical enormities in judgment, as unprophetic as it was ridiculous, that engulfs the industry periodically, like the coming of the locust.

By the Act of Supremacy, signed in 1534, King Henry VIII and his successors asserted full power and authority to "visit, repress, redress, record, order, correct, restrain and amend" any "errors, heresies, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities" in the nation's religious life.

A belief in historical inevitability served as an 'alibi' for evading responsibility and blame, and for committing enormities in the name of necessity or reason.

Its enormity, $63 billion in assets, makes it difficult for the fund to outperform in a market of rising volatility.