Sentence examples for more terrible to from inspiring English sources

It's even more terrible to wonder if that was the only meaning they ever could have had, though history will take longer to write that one.

But having said that, there is nothing that could be more terrible to a system of justice than to send innocent people to death.

I think my city-born father must have hated it, hated the ceaseless labor of it, and yet nothing was more terrible to contemplate than losing property; it was all that stood between you and oblivion.

On Christmas Eve, when at twilight the peregrine hides in the "dusty cobwebby dusk of hazel and hornbeam," he writes, "No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than his fear of man".

"My grandfather told me all these stories, all these things," Mr. Mendelsohn writes, "but he never talked about his brother and sister-in-law and the four girls, who, to me, seemed not so much dead as lost, vanished not only from the world but — even more terrible to me — from my grandfather's stories".

I stopped taking birth control pills about a year or so before Billy and I got married because a friend convinced me that they were terrible for my body, and I finally felt like it wouldn't be more terrible to be pregnant.

Amb Mussomeli responded that going to the journalist would give her the sense that there is a more terrible story to report.

How fortunate the one who did not need more terrible means to wean the child!

From Kelly Wilson Embryo selection has been heralded by enthusiasts as the end of some of the more terrible diseases to which mankind is prone.

It was clearly written in the hope of a second season (a wish that is yet to be granted), and there will be viewers who were left frustrated by the lack of closure in the final minutes, although I rather liked the hints of yet more terrible things to come.

"But it's more terrible not to remember".