In the aftermath, he looks subtly different, breathing hard but composed, with Ramírez suggesting the Macbeth-like enormity of a man's stepping into murder.
But critics misinterpreted these cross-references as meaning that pairs like "imply" and "infer," "enormity" and "enormousness" were now synonyms.
Instead, the five of us, and half the street, went out to contemplate its alien enormity, like seaside villagers staring up at a beached ocean liner.
The stretched XJ is very large, but it hides its enormity like few other cars.
Personally, and as a scholar, I like the access and the enormity of range of knowledge afforded by the internet.
He was just like, "You know, the enormity of this weight might make you feel stressed out — it might feel like a burden — but in the end, it's a big blessing".
If you use "enormity" to help you describe something enormous, like Barack Obama did, you'll have the likes of Simon Heffer on your back, and a few others besides.
The fact is Blair, in the quotes published from his memoir underneath the picture, sounds like someone who knows the enormity of ordering soldiers to die in a war.
With the click of a mouse, virtual birds-eye views like these show the unfiltered enormity of the devastation.
It's like trying to capture the enormity of the Himalayas in a photograph, or the feeling of flying in a hot air balloon from a video.
When it hits, I'm always struck by its enormity and completeness, like a hurricane that moves in and devastates until there is nothing left of what was touched.
