Sentence examples for enormity that from inspiring English sources

Both are matters of design: a set of crystalline trees that suggest the aesthetic exaltations of the horrors posed by the gene-splicing space invaders, and a final conflagration of a overwrought enormity that runs just a few moments but suggests nonetheless the proximity of the ridiculous to the sublime.

In 1974, there occurred an event of such enormity that Metropolitan Anthony condemned it in a sermon in his own cathedral: the expulsion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union.

It is hard to find the words to praise "Survival in Auschwitz," and this is not because of the enormity that it records but because of its internal qualities: the intelligence, the fine-mindedness, the sheer narrative skill with which Levi addresses that enormity.

It brings back to me the imaginative enormity that every true demand for radical change insists upon.

The expertise and experience that you collectively bring to this meeting and this entire venture represent one of the clearest signs of hope in a battle of such enormity that it can easily give rise to despondency.

Later he would write of camp conditions: "It was lavish and wasteful of life…a stupid and heartless age guilty of enormities that would tax the most saintly to forgive".

If doctors allowed our emotions free reign on the ward, if we empathised in full with the life and death enormities that suffuse every hospital, we'd be useless with grief, no good to anyone.

It's certain that John Knox, hurling imprecations at England's fervently Roman Catholic Queen Mary from his Genevan exile in 1558, believed he spoke for all Protestant men when he called women "a monstrous regiment" that, "among all enormities that do this day abound upon the face of the whole earth, is most detestable and damnable".

BRITAIN'S local newspapers do not go in for the sort of enormities that spark a judicial inquiry.

I will never forget his look of disbelief and disgust, mingled, I think, with a certain renewed awe at the enormities that out-of-towners were capable of.

And Carter aside in a way, somehow the enormity of that, that this can happen: the breadth of how far we've moved away from a moment where such a scene seems possible.