Sentence examples for plain horrible from inspiring English sources

Streep is in witheringly awards-courting form; a sequence in which she carves up the family over a funeral feast is both horribly funny, and just plain horrible.

From the Greeks on, theatre has always flirted with the shocking, the fantastic, the politically inadmissible or even the plain horrible.

While American Mary may be a horror treat, the Adam Sandler "comedy" That's My Boy (2012, Sony, 15) is just plain horrible.

But the results are plain, and horrible.

Because he finds his egg contain — Green, hungry, horrible and plain An infant crocodile.

Notice how, as Orwell put it, "A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details".Wars sound horrible in plain English, so they have always generated a smokescreen of euphemism.

We have no idea who this narrator is, nor will we until 300 pages later, after he has made his horrible revelation plain to Minaya, a young man who has come to Mágina to escape the police for his role in the Madrid student protests of 1969.

There is an enormous range of activity among the apes and monkeys; activities that include the honorable, the horrible, the silly and just plain bewildering.