Sentence examples for enormity with from inspiring English sources
The muted, sombre eloquence seemed the only match for the war's enormity, with an implicit retort against the hot rhetoric that had started the conflict.
The tested long-wheelbase LS 460L belied its enormity with brisk acceleration (5.4 seconds to 60mph, claims Lexus).
The car has a more hunkered, angry stance than the plutocratic Phantom Coupé, though like that car, the Wraith makes no effort to conceal its enormity with visual sleight of hand.
But HuffPost blogger John Seager illustrates the enormity with a great example.
In The Third Reich: A New History (Macmillan), Michael Burleigh proceeds from the premise that Nazism was a quasi-religion whose programme allowed the faithful to perpetrate enormities with a clear conscience.
Boris Johnson, London's mayor and a would-be MP, called for a "swift and minor" change to the law, to the effect that anybody who travels to a war zone without informing the authorities can be presumed to have gone for terrorist purposes.Such musings worried lawyers and civil-liberties campaigners, who are accustomed to governments reacting to enormities with draconian new laws.
Akcam is one of the first Turkish historians to treat the Armenian genocide as genocide — he now lives in exile in Minnesota — and in "A Shameful Act" he tries to grapple both with the enormity of the crime and with the logic of its repression.
If you need religion to explain the human capacity to care, then that is fair enough and the enormity of that with which we are faced everyday can certainly give rise to the feeling that we are powerless in the face of fate.
Our Scientific Sessions is increasingly confronted with enormity and anonymity.
As Brown had predicted, freedom from slavery could come only through a mind-numbing purging with blood, on a scale commensurate with the enormity of the national sin that was the "peculiar institution".
"Maus" is largely Vladek Spiegelman's own testimony amplified by the book's abject, minimal style and the allegory of its cat-and-mouse imagery, and is only secondarily about its creator's relationship with his father and his struggle with the enormity of his topic.
