Sentence examples for largely dreadful from inspiring English sources

Official relations between London and Moscow have been largely dreadful since the 2006 polonium murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Along the way, she tangles with largely dreadful men, most significantly, Edward Johnson, a coked-up trustafarian who steals her virginity and humiliates her.

Shopping consists of a "native market" for largely dreadful souvenirs, which must be bargained for, and an "artisans' market," with good handicrafts at reasonable, marked prices.

Despite largely dreadful results this season, both David Moyes and Mike Phelan are seeking unlikely consecutive victories after signing off for the international break with wins over benevolent opposition from the south coast.

And once the tournament got under way, two largely dreadful draws with Switzerland (0-0) and South Korea (1-1), featuring leaden performances by Zidane and Vieira in particular, made it seem highly unlikely that the cycle of decline had come to an end.

Diplomats play this nonsense up, talking with relish about rows that will last till dawn, or about summits that will be "three-shirt meetings", ie, will go on for 36 sleepless hours.The European Commission has some good women at the top (plus a couple of dreadful ones) largely because its president, José Manuel Barroso, went to great lengths to recruit them when assembling his team in 2004.

My work has taken me to Auschwitz and Hiroshima, and I have come to see these two dreadful events as largely defining our era.

France's League of Human Rights (LDH) has condemned the fast-track sentences, which it argues are handed down in dreadful conditions and largely apply to drunks or fools.

The idea was, of course, is to avoid all these fates, but that's largely impossible thanks to the dreadful controls.

But both have losing records, and the Royals had fallen to last place in the American League Central through Friday, largely because the offense has been dreadful.

In northern Nigeria and northern Kenya, the fighting is with Islamist militias; in South Sudan and Congo the truly dreadful civil war is fought between largely Christian ethnic groupings.