Sentence examples for terrible importance from inspiring English sources

The passing of one generation invests the promise of the next with terrible importance.

Like the previously underreported rape of women in war, these unheeded violations of women need to be accorded their proper, terrible importance.

"These are changes of terrible importance to the future of the country, and it is hard to see how further deregulation promotes diversity, competition and localism," he said.

The many terrible songs about the election, submitted by the show's listeners, made light of the awful importance of the election.

The Mountains of Ignorance, the Terrible Trivium, the importance of both rhyme and reason... the book is never sentimental or preachy, but through measured wit, with a dose of wonder, it reminds you what a wide and interesting place the world is.

If there were those, including allegedly respectable academics, who tried to deny Gross's overwhelming evidence or who simply denounced him as a traitor to Poland's sacred cause, there were those who acknowledged the terrible force and importance of his indictment.

If you believe in statistics, you are presented with a terrific school with terrible teachers — except that the importance of teachers is what underlies this whole exercise and, as far as your amateur eye can tell, has been a key part of its success.

In her classic book about writing, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott writes about the importance of the terrible first draft".

It's the peak iteration of a load of terrible things: navel gazing, self-importance and spoilt dickheads with no real problems running the media.

He is also committed to the Gaultier exhibition, which has reminded fashion audiences around the world of the importance of a former enfant terrible.

Clinton also made a "terrible mistake" when she failed to anticipate the importance of the caucuses.