Sentence examples for his enormity from inspiring English sources

In this charming work, young boys line up to climb over a massive, reclining elephant, feeding him tufts of grass and wondering at his enormity.

Given his enormity I figured Busco must be the Spanish word for dumpster.

If the aim had been to try and punish Mr bin Laden for his enormities, it would have been imperative at least to attempt to take him alive.

"His code of ethics is formed on this extraordinary stock of poetical theology, pagan biography, adulterous sentimentality, and atheistical jacobinism," according to the review of "Frankenstein" most widely read in the United States, "yet, in spite of all his enormities, we think the monster, a very pitiable and ill-used monster".

"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.

These rumours were elaborated on years later in Leicester's Commonwealth, a Catholic underground libel against the Protestant Earl of Leicester satirically detailing his alleged enormities.

The rapper LL Cool J, in his memoir "I Make My Own Rules," describes being at a birthday gala for Quincy Jones, attended by Sidney Poitier, Oprah Winfrey, and others, at which Rickles made a fulsome toast, congratulating Jones on the beauty of his wife and on the enormity of his professional success, but concluding that, in spite of everything, he was "still a black man".

Mukherjee's impression of reluctant ownership of his own success is, I suspect, down to a profound sense of personal insignificance in the face of his subject's enormity.

But even here, his thoughts seldom stray far from the Germany that he covered in the 1930's and 40's as a radio correspondent for CBS and that he chronicled in 1941 in his first book, "Berlin Diary". Much of this new memoir consists of meditations on the great evil he had witnessed in his youth, the enormity of which he still cannot fully comprehend.

As I registered his words, the enormity of what I was facing became clear.

In the immediate aftermath of his death, the enormity of the loss along with trying to manage and be responsive to so many people's expectations, organizing his memorial service and simultaneously dealing with the nuts and bolts of being an executor of his estate and director of the Foundation just kept me busy and overwhelmed -- I had so many things to do that I was numb.