Sentence examples for fearsome thought from inspiring English sources

It's a fearsome thought: these weird gelatinous creatures, which don't even have bones or brains, could starve the mighty whale to extinction.

After the budget, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants branded the plans "seriously draconian" but have now concluded they are "less fearsome than first thought".

His role in the mass extermination of Jews epitomized "the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil" that had spread across Europe at the time.

Those observations bring to mind Hannah Arendt's famous description of "the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil" she observed in Adolf Eichmann, the high-ranking Nazi who helped orchestrate the Holocaust.

What Drakulić discovered, in other words, is what Hannah Arendt, at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem, some forty years earlier, called "the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil".

Obama must continue to risk making world opinion fearsome.

But the forces massing against the idea are fearsome.

Thus, a patient suffering from OCD would typically act in a certain systematic way that is only supported by the thought that a terrible outcome (such as the death of a close relative) would occur if the patient stopped engaging in that particular behavior, despite the fact that the fearsome outcome never actually happened.

Fortunately, as well as a Nasa scientist, Landis is also a respected science fiction writer – a fearsome combination that allows him to think big thoughts about future mission concepts.

But for the last week, we've been told that the thought of sharing a stage with that fearsome oratorical beast otherwise known as Mitt Romney has him trembling in his leather oxfords.

But on second thought that struggle might have looked a bit fearsome to the 19th-century audiences that first saw the ballet.