Sentence examples for monstrous decision from inspiring English sources

This seems to me to be a monstrous decision".

Frederick Douglass called Taney's decision monstrous.

Even ignoring the fact that dictatorships relying on brutality for survival are anything but stable in the long-run, valuing "stability" over basic principles of liberty, democratic governance, and universal human rights is the same one-dimensional mentality that has been responsible for some of the most indefensibly monstrous foreign policy decisions in modern history.

Paul, then thirty-nine, found the F.H.A. to be a monstrous infringement on liberty: "Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered.

We, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet this decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit.

Isn't that a monstrous intrusion into one's private decision-making?

Mr. Sisto's powerful turn is complemented by Jefferson Mays's neatly spoken, deftly comic performance as Duke Vincentio, whose decision to make Angelo his deputy has monstrous consequences.

It is that laconic judicial caution that Sir John Chilcot deployed to annihilate any residual doubt that the decision to take Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 was a calamitous failure and a monstrous mistake.

At the very heart of all of these questions — and indeed of the tragedy itself — is a government that refuses to be held accountable for its decisions, and that admits no criticism when criticism might make the difference between bold vision and monstrous folly.

Although Jack ultimately saves the majority of the world's children and finds a way to foil the monstrous 456, the situation in which he is placed forces him to make a morally difficult (and to some viewers, reprehensible) decision.

"It is monstrous.