Sentence examples for sort of enormous from inspiring English sources

His next novel will be about the expulsion of Greeks from Turkey and vice versa after World War I ("a sort of enormous ethnic cleansing").

It can now also be viewed to striking advantage from the Millennium Bridge (2000; retrofitted and reopened 2002), the only bridge across the Thames that is solely for pedestrians, and from the London Eye, a sort of enormous Ferris wheel.

Their first addition to the estuary will be a sort of enormous airsock, modelled on tights with a ring at each end and flying like a kite by Middlesbrough's famed Transporter Bridge.

Venus, the voice of reason against a mob mentality looking for lulz, chastises her tormenters, asking: "You think that takes nerve?" The "that" in question is a secret ballot vote for someone to die in some sort of enormous gladiatorial ring that hides in plain sight near the Verrazano Bridge.

When you are under that sort of enormous strain you are pushed back to your roots, and my parents were pushed back into this world of faith healers and religion, so in a lot of ways I didn't feel like I really entered America until I went to college".

Instead of reinforcing the claustrophobia that builds both their passion and their hatred, he gives us a jokey set that is a sort of enormous, circular fish tank, with fish painted on the walls and a fishbowl onstage to over-egg the pudding.

Its layout is almost completely normal and it has no visual flair to speak of short of the built-in wrist rest that gives it a sort of, well, enormous look.

"[San Hamel was] driving under the influence on the city streets where things are congested, and [there was] the complete lack of braking of any sort, the enormous impact of a car of thousands of pounds going in excess of 50 miles per hour, hitting just the human body".

It was a bright day and freezing cold, the sort of weather where enormous sheets of ice might be floating on the Hudson.

In 1940, he mentions that "I am sort of incubating an enormous novel, the family saga sort of thing," and, nine years later, talks of "a novel dealing with 1945 in my head now, but even if I survive to write it, I shouldn't touch it before 1950".

But the fact is our national media spawns this sort of reaction, engendering enormous fear in the wrongdoer providing the need to cover up personal mistakes lest they be transmitted out of proportion -- mistakes that do no one any harm except for one's immediate family, the only people who should truly be concerned about what he's done.