Sentence examples for seem awful from inspiring English sources

Mind you, it didn't seem awful at the time; on the contrary, it was positively gripping.

"I suppose ten years ago, the idea of being dumped by tech would seem awful," Laird said.

The difference between "Friends," whose ideas seem awful on paper, and these failures, which at least sound inventive, suggest that there are no rules for how to keep a series alive except one: the show has to maintain the essential connection between the viewers and the characters on screen.

Bob Dylan must surely be a cricket fan: can make an excellent thing seem awful (high score/ great lyrics vs technique/performance), ability to go on for ages without doing anything good, and divides opinion twixt those who think he is boring, and others who think he has much to teach".

Indeed, when I speak to Claire Layton, producer of a concert series in Liverpool featuring only female composers, she says that while it does "seem awful that there are 63 composers on the A-level syllabus and no women", if the point of the course is to teach students about the Western classical tradition, then it is true that women were never written into the canon.

So how do you highlight improvements without making your prior work seem awful in comparison?

Always seems awful to me".

"It seems awful to be famous now".

Yet what seems awful in San Bernardino is the norm in effervescent Beijing.

"It seems awful heavy-handed to me, but David is one, he isn't shy about being heavy-handed".

It was a beautiful day, and it seemed awful that my father was not there to see it.