Sentence examples for state of terrible from inspiring English sources

Moreover, literature, like so much else in Russia, is now in a state of terrible degradation.

Some were quiet like my father, lying passively in their beds, others were in a state of terrible distress.

"Ministers were immediately despatched to speak to the search and rescue authorities in the United States so there was absolutely no doubt at all in the minds of the decision-makers on the other side of the Atlantic what this Government felt on behalf of the families who, quite rightly, are in a state of terrible anguish.

It was in a state of terrible disrepair.

The women were in a state of terrible shock and crying most of the time.

A girl once stood and defined purgatory as "a state of terrible torment which those who enter are compelled to undergo for a time to fit them for heaven".

There, under the shady tree in his rambling, rather neglected compound, the old strongman was reflecting on politics and democracy in Zambia, on the recent presidential election ("definitely rigged") and the current state of the nation ("terrible").

In March 1933, she writes to Morrell: "Yes I do think it might be a good thing for me to go to the Sanatorium … as I am … in a most terrible state of health … I look so awful.

Mr. Shevelove, following Aristophanes, for the most part had used the story to lament the terrible state of the theater; Mr. Lane wanted to focus on the terrible state of the state.

A good article in the Times about the terrible state of Texas schools — followed by a truly awful comment thread, in which many readers rush to blame, you guessed it, teachers' unions.

The public needs a hard-fought campaign that sheds some light on the options the state faces at a time of terrible budget constraints.