Sentence examples for terrible curses from inspiring English sources

When Ariadne sees Theseus's ship sailing away towards the horizon, she will, after her first despair, rain down terrible curses on him, as well she might: she was very much the brains of the Minotaur-slaying operation, supplying the hero with a sword and a thread by which to find his way out of the labyrinth.

In this week's Torah portion of Ki Tavo, Moses teaches the people about the terrible curses that would befall them if they stray from God's path of righteousness and justice.

It proved a blessing and a terrible curse.

And so from local, I want to go global to try to beat the terrible curse of dimensionality.

Aslam's Afghanistan is a Persian miniature under some terrible curse.

Because I'm not naturally observant, which is a terrible curse for a writer.

But who would wish on any writer the terrible curse of one supremely successful book?

Philippe, a Vietnamese mortal with an immortal past and a terrible curse, is conscripted to serve the of House Silverspires.

It was like some terrible curse where everything I'd ever wished for turned into a nightmare, and it was rapidly turning me into a maniac.

His name is Kirikou, and his tiny village in Africa has been placed under a terrible curse by the sorceress Karaba.

It's difficult to believe that a hundred years from now historians are going to say, "America had a terrible curse of gun violence.