For perhaps the first time she understood the enormity of her own death, and the impact of it on the people she left behind.
Mr Blair said The Queen had "grasped the enormity" of Diana's death but "was not going to be pushed around by it" in terms of how the monarchy should react.
The enormity of Muhammad Ali's death reverberated Saturday in the impact felt by the millions he touched, especially those in the fight game.
You may see only vast and vaguely-menacing clouds of insects, but as we watch them turn to slime on our windscreens, it's worth considering the life-or-death enormity of this entomological D-day.
"The enormity of water-associated disease and death has not been fully assessed," says Timeon, but the direct and indirect impacts are "colossal".
In the immediate aftermath of his death, the enormity of the loss along with trying to manage and be responsive to so many people's expectations, organizing his memorial service and simultaneously dealing with the nuts and bolts of being an executor of his estate and director of the Foundation just kept me busy and overwhelmed -- I had so many things to do that I was numb.
In 1992, when the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was handed down, the focus was not on family violence, except for an excerpt in volume five that found the death of Aboriginal women and constant assault of Aboriginal women and children far exceeded, in sheer numbers and the enormity of suffering, the problems that deaths in custody pose for men.
Perhaps the principal source of his authority is the fact that, as a German of partly Jewish descent in American exile, he recognized, as early as the autumn of 1944, the enormity of what was happening in the death camps.
From there, in relative quiet amid green trees and 200-year-old gravestones, it is hard to look toward the trade center site without feeling the enormity of what happened there, and reflecting on the center's death and rebirth.
