Sentence examples for scale of the suffering from inspiring English sources

The sheer scale of the suffering cries out for coverage.

Pictures, it said, "cannot begin to illustrate the sheer scale of the suffering".

Even so, the sheer scale of the suffering in Wednesday's attack was staggering.

The scale of the suffering in Syria demands a more active diplomatic engagement ahead of this week's summit.

The report is the latest in a series of alarming revelations of the scale of the suffering that endures in Pakistan's flood-affected areas.

The scale of the suffering experienced by women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo can be too vast to grasp, too painful to imagine.

EARTHQUAKES can be measured and mapped, but it will be days and perhaps weeks before the scale of the human suffering unleashed on Haiti this week by the collision of the Caribbean and North American plates can be known.

Here in Halba, and other towns like it along Lebanon's border with Syria, the scale of the human suffering is immense.

The sheer number of these graves are a reminder of the scale of the human suffering witnessed here, but also of the extent to which so many in the UK and beyond are still connected to the place today.

Foreigners often note that, in Russia, everything is exaggerated —the reckless consumption of alcohol, the grand sweep of its literature, the scale of its suffering, the mistakes and triumphs of its history.

Or, in Nelson's expanded phrase: an "aesthetic, political, and moral obligation to face painful reality unsentimentally". This artistic backbone would be useful in any era, but it was especially so in post-WWII America when the scale of suffering from the war, the Holocaust, the atom bomb, was practically impossible to comprehend.