Sentence examples for rather horrible from inspiring English sources

"But this – and it's not just crime fiction which is affected – puts it into a new and rather horrible arena".

He writes on June 11 , 1939 "Rather horrible night with a picked up acquaintance Doug whose amorous advance made me sick at the stomach — Purity!

In fact, it is a dark, strange, rather horrible (as well as wonderful) fable that I, for one, would never read to a child.

It's years since I encountered a restaurant with a long horizontal window (overlooking a rather horrible car park); mind you, it's a while since I encountered net curtains either.

The other day a friend told me about a difficult and rather horrible day out with her 15-year-old daughter, buying a new dress for a special occasion.

Eggs were preserved in large, ceramic pots as they lay in this fluid the eggs became coated, up to a half or three quarters of an inch, with a soft but slightly crunchy substance which felt rather horrible when one had to put ones hands in to remove eggs.

Or, rather, horribly but relatively less horribly compared to the really horrible horror that some people are enduring.

Just as importantly, they would also make the jobs of those who work the kilns rather less horrible.

And the sweat is humbling rather than horrible: I like a waiter to suffer for our pleasure.

Prison under the new communist authorities was no better than Auschwitz, he recalled grimly.Post-Stalinist Poland was mostly boring and tiresome rather than horrible.

The only way I can't be bitter is to think that at least for the short time I had them they were two good and loving parents rather than horrible ones who live to a great age.