Sentence examples for is less dreadful from inspiring English sources

The death of a volunteer soldier is less dreadful than the death of a conscript; the death of either perhaps less dreadful than that of a civilian who had the misfortune to live in a strategically important town.

Though, when new arrivals to the great outdoors in wildest Cumbria tackled the obstacles, they found they were less dreadful than they feared.

If it is possible to make judgments at all about how people die, then the death of a bomb disposal expert is a less dreadful thing than the death of a child, or a civilian mother, who walks on to the same landmine by accident.

For once, the economy is in less dreadful shape than usual.

Isis's brutal antics are less a cause than a dreadful symptom of previous bad policies and a power vacuum at the heart of the Middle East.

The book festivals are dreadful affairs that are less about literature than about grasping authors and agents in straw hats and linen jackets trying desperately to flog you their contribution to the country's endless and bottomless sea of fiction.

If his injury was dreadful luck, its timing — November 1994 — was less unfortunate.

And while there's no stopping it once the bug is already in your system, there are ways to make it less dreadful.

It was dreadful, absolutely dreadful.

Both Gorbachev and de Klerk began as reformers — that is, politicians devoted to making a dreadful system less dreadful, not to actually abolishing it.

None of which makes the experience any less dreadful.