"For all the abuses visited upon human rights defenders in China this [past] year, in a handful of cases about which there was considerable domestic and international outrage we saw a somewhat less awful outcome," said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch.
After he was hit by Martin's shot, he said that he had awful headaches, and that for the first week, he had vertigo, which was a new and somewhat frightening experience for him.
Brussels has got around such trifles as negative opinion polls and even lost referendums: witness the unwanted EU constitution, now cross-dressed as the somewhat-less-awful Lisbon treaty.
Extroversion correlated with "bar", while neurotics were found to use the words "awful", "lazy" and, somewhat predictably, "depressing".
Asked if there was anything in the address that concerned him, Mr. Skelos replied, somewhat archly, "I learned an awful lot about child obesity in the governor's speech".
One of the somewhat perverse joys (and arguably awful indulgences) of living in San Francisco is a lifestyle subsidized by venture capital.
There are somewhat hilarious editorials about how awful New York City traffic and public transportation was before the subway was built as a solution.
Boris Aguilar, Executive, Red Patch Boys: Toronto FC has made small strides in turning this awful season into a somewhat less awful one.
"I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes.
Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia.
Ann stumped for Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," a somewhat harder sell, in that Carl, at first listening, called it "awful".
