Sentence examples for terrible cloud from inspiring English sources

Behind them, across brilliant blue water, in an azure sky, a terrible cloud of smoke and dust rises above lower Manhattan from the place where two towers were struck by hijacked airliners this same morning and have collapsed, killing, by fire, smoke, falling or jumping or crushing and tearing and fragmentation in the buildings' final fall, nearly 3,000 people.

In the evening, back on our terrace (on the site, so the hotel claims, of Emperor Augustus's villa) we looked again across the vast bay of Naples at Vesuvius, and read back the words of Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption from just such a spot: "A black and terrible cloud, rent by snaking bursts of fire, gaped open in huge flashes of flames; like lightning, but more extensive.

It was like, "These are people from all different backgrounds bonding over breathing in this terrible cloud of ash and smoke".

Capes flapping, they flowed like a wind-tossed river in the shadow of Storm King Mountain, where they listened to biblical passages about "terrible happenings" as storm clouds scudded from the north.

I was moved deeply as I watched hundreds of cadets stream across the campus to an outdoor prayer service: Capes flapping, they flowed like a wind-tossed river in the shadow of Storm King Mountain, where they listened to biblical passages about "terrible happenings" as storm clouds scudded from the north.

In this clever, dark Dutch novel, two couples dine out under the cloud of a terrible crime committed by their teenage sons.

As the president of the United States departs under a cloud, with the terrible consequences of his failures at home and abroad continuing to reverberate throughout global politics and American culture, the feeling foremost in the minds of most right-thinking people is surely, "Good riddance".

The Bloomsbury scene was famously hectic and vital, generating dense clouds of correspondence, terrible feuds and heady collaborations.

A cloud can be beautiful, terrible, or both the embodiment of the sublime.

"The weather on Friday was terrible because there wasn't a cloud in the sky," Project Jonah General Manager, Daren Grover told us.

"At times like that you have to congratulate your team-mates, which is important, but while they are buzzing on cloud nine you are feeling terrible.