Sentence examples for hideous task of from inspiring English sources

Vonnegut escaped death by hiding in an underground meatlocker; when he emerged, he and his fellow prisoners were set to the hideous task of disinterring innumerable corpses from the devastation.

Having cantered through the final group stage qualification in Oceania, scoring 17 and conceding just two goals en route to home and away victories over New Caledonia, Tahiti and Solomon Islands, New Zealand face the comparatively hideous task of having to play Mexico at the Estadio Azteca in the first leg of their World Cup play-off on Wednesday.

Norfolke would have had a hideous task.

Tobacco to combat the stench; the anesthesia of alcohol; the company of prostitutes: how long can the miners be distracted as they go about their hideous task?

"He found being royal a hideous, arduous task, and he reacted to it like an insolent child".

What a hideous violation of her privacy.

It was a hideous series of blows.

Hiroshima was an obvious, hideous breach of the ordinary.

I made this hideous mess of bitter, burnt mush.

"Today in Orlando, we had a hideous dose of reality.

Fortunately – aw heck, miraculously – there's another, highly instructive side to the hideous blot of apartheid.