Sentence examples for is dreadful that from inspiring English sources

It is dreadful that 300 Haitians have died from it.

It is dreadful that people who had come out for an evening of joyful dancing, and of celebration of their freedom to love whom they will, should have their lives ended or shattered in gunfire.

I was convinced they were dreadful, that whoever saw them would think they were absolutely vile," says Hardinge.

It was a very moving time and I think it's dreadful that there's so little education in this country about the Middle East and the situation there.

"It's dreadful that the European Union caved in to German automaker pressure to delay a sound environmental and oil-saving protection standard," Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, said in a telephone interview.

Tom Copley, Labour's housing spokesperson in the London Assembly, said he opposed the help-to-buy scheme because it made house prices even higher, but added: "It's dreadful that people who took it up were lied to".

What is dreadful is that, during "peace," these same media bombard the world with holier-than-thou sermons about objectivity, truth and fairness, whereas in war, they are the first to trample these principles underfoot.

Obviously, you have nights when you try something you've written that is dreadful.

"The general feeling of uncertainty is dreadful," she said, acknowledging that people were worried about their safety.

That is dreadful, for it means the costs of the public sector have been a big drag on living standards in the economy as a whole.

It's not so much the idea that Saturday 3pm is dreadful – it really is – but that it should be sacrosanct.