Sentence examples for it so dreadful from inspiring English sources

Mike Emery of The Austin Chronicle praised the film's "subtle touches"—such as radio broadcasts heard in the background describing grisly murders around Texas—and said that what made it so dreadful was that it never strayed too far from potential reality.

"It was a great challenge to even assimilate it, it was so dreadful.

Sure, it's dreadful, but, in retrospect, maybe it is so dreadful, it fits into the so-bad-its-genius bracket?

That is why it was so dreadful".

It was so dreadful that such a lovely person should face such a thing.

"But if it was so dreadful, why didn't people go over and say something?" Mr. Saatchi's public comments, though, have provided ample ammunition for detractors.

But then I went back and read another of his books, and it was so dreadful that I simply stopped reading, somewhere on Kansas City, and sat in silence until we landed at Newark.

But really, since her boss clearly has feelings for her and repeatedly says his marriage is all but dead, would it be so dreadful if he left his wife and they got together?

It would be funny if it weren't so dreadful.

One interviewee described the tilt table as being "terrifying" for her daughter, another came to see its use as a source of "agony", as "cruel" and "wrong", a third acknowledged that the table was "meant to be positive" but commented "but it just looked so awful, like some horrible medieval torture implement and it was just so dreadful" (Cathy, sister).

What could have happened to her that was so dreadful it made words fail?