Sentence examples for terrible description from inspiring English sources

In his new biography, "Gerard Manley Hopkins" (Viking; $34.95), Paul Mariani quotes the Times' terrible description of their final hours: "Five German nuns... clasped hands and were drowned together, the chief sister, a gaunt woman 6 ft. high, calling out loudly and often 'O Christ, come quickly!' till the end came.

Apprehending this adds another layer to the terrifyingly powerful climax of Ivan Ilyich, in which Ivan's rapture ("There was no more fear because there was no more death") does not convince, but jars against his earlier, terrible description of death as "that black sack into which an invisible, invincible force was pushing him".

The luminosity of the images invites an easy "terrible beauty" description.

Often, they were pictured as bloated and purple-faced (from drinking blood); they had long talons and smelled terrible — a description probably based on the appearance of corpses whose tombs had been opened by worried villagers.

2. Terrible job descriptions: I had no idea how to write a job description, let alone one that conformed to the structure of my employer and would attract the appropriate candidates.

But that's an equally good description of terrible music, so don't write it down.

Terrible, too, in its description of the feuding of the clansmen.

By his own description a terrible soldier, he was so traumatized by his experiences that he resolved not to return home after Japan's surrender and to settle in an indigenous Tolai village that had befriended him.

He was 63, more than eight years past the snowstorm of his previous memoir and five years past a terrible automobile accident whose description flashes through "A Step From Death".

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 5 November 2009 A first name went awry in this article about the return of the architect Will Alsop to his profession: the CEO of RMJM, the firm Mr Alsop has joined, is Peter, not Robert, Morrison Only in the world of architecture could a 61-year-old merit the description enfant terrible.

He owns a plumbing company in Newtown, Pa., and calls Hillary Clinton "terrible"—the only printable description he can offer, he says.