The Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone remains among the most devastating events in our country's history, perhaps more dreadful even than the 11 years of civil war.
(Maybe there was a page about it in Debrett's Guide; perhaps that dreadful social vandal Nancy Mitford had determined that any effort to obstruct operational paedophiles was non-U).
The charitable will perhaps overlook one dreadful mistake the happy slaves on the plantations and notice how movingly staged many of the family and community scenes are.
I think of the headsman balancing that extraordinary axe for a long instant without breaking the skin; then the engine cuts its ascending outline on the air, wharrs its velocity, dreadful, perhaps merciful.
The murderous attack on a school in Peshawar has appalled people around the world, but perhaps even more dreadful is that this is far from an isolated incident.
This is what journalism should be about, if we know what is happening in the world -we could stop it -this story is dreadful, perhaps we need to use British troops (rather than Iraq) in places like this.
Olsen, having survived a dreadful 2013 (perhaps helped by his team's US Open Cup win), will know what that involves more than most.
(Long-term readers will remember that I was scarred, perhaps forever, by a dreadful succession of gannet-carrying, gannet-death and gannet-burial-at-sea mishaps which mightily amused the lovely town of Ullapool but which will mean I am never again able to look a gannet in its mad-blue eyes without flinching and, at the very least, offering up a herring as a belated apology).
Unquestionably, your experience has been dreadful and perhaps made worse by the fact that it has been at both a minority school (i.e., HBCU) and, I am guessing, a majority institution.
I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind.
