Sentence examples for hideous amount from inspiring English sources
If only his successors as home secretary had bothered to consult with and listen to those who had genuine concerns and suggestions to offer about how an effective national offender management system might be developed, the hideous amount of time and money, wasted on unnecessary additional bureaucracy could have been spent on protecting the public by improving what was done with and for offenders.
We didn't save many people, but we spent hideous amounts of money in the attempt ($1500 per day).
Which might be a fascinating civic exercise if it weren't for the hideous amounts of money being raised, spent, lost and won in the process of it all.
Fountain pens use up hideous amounts of ink, but produce a very familiar, bold, distinctive kind of handwriting that calls to mind various well known, very old documents.
For him, the "burly, naked, sweaty, hideous" Yanomamö stink and produce enormous amounts of "dark green snot".
For him, the 'burly, naked, sweaty, hideous' Yanamamo stink and produce enormous amounts of 'dark green snot.' They keep 'vicious, underfed growling dogs,' engage in brutal 'club fights' and -- God forbid!
I'm hideous!" But in the end, it can amount to the same thing.
Padura's treatment of Trotsky is highly sympathetic, and his telling of Mercader's life exposes the hideous legacy of Stalinism, which for decades amounted to a state religion in Cuba.
