Sentence examples for plain awful from inspiring English sources

Some were seductive, some reminiscent of familiar aromas, some just plain awful.

But what makes the use of a font wonderful or plain awful?

All of these criticisms have merit – the film is just plain awful.

For much of the half-century that followed, they were plain awful.

The purported celebrity boxing match, on the other hand, is just plain awful.

Stoke City put on a masterclass against a Manchester City who were just plain awful.

MANY CORPORATE WEB SITES ARE JUST PLAIN awful-slow as snails, baffling to browse and banally designed.

From awkward embarrassment to just-plain-awful embarrassment to downright humiliation, Father's Day memories can stir up emotions you probably haven't felt in a while.

By contrast, Ms. Kereszi revels in the plain and awful surfaces she found.

I'd learned about Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in English lessons, too, and remember being particularly taken by Sassoon's poem, "Dreamers" – which made plain the awful, everyday human tragedy of war.

Despite the passengers' lack of anything remotely resembling expressive language ("Sure are big creatures". / "It's awful plain"), they are overcome with joy, lifted from their narrow selves for a luminous moment, before the bus rolls on.