Sentence examples for enormity of the situation from inspiring English sources

Partly it's the enormity of the situation, but more than that, it hasn't ended".

When the bombing happened, he immediately grasped the enormity of the situation.

For the first time, the enormity of the situation hit me.

"Fucking hell," he adds, as though the enormity of the situation has dawned on him for the first time.

Realising the enormity of the situation, Koungoulba alerted the rapid response team in the Malian capital, Bamako, and dispatched a sample of the girl's blood for immediate testing.

Sullenberger's wife, Lorrie, said "the enormity of the situation" had only begun to sink in on Friday night as she watched the news.

Somehow the enormity of that situation, the rampant greed that allowed it to happen, the damage to millions of little guys, and the continuing ascent of the perps are given short shrift in a film weighted toward sexy machismo.

Miller did not know how to deal with the enormities of the situation in a play.

"There are moments if you stop and think about the enormity of this, the situation will just paralyze you," he said.

"The enormity of the humanitarian situation and the fact that it has scarcely been addressed for over a year is incomprehensible to me," she said.

He argues that, although City journalists covered the problems of some individual companies creditably, few grasped the enormity, or scale, of the situation.