Sentence examples for terrible invention from inspiring English sources

(They're unsettled, too. "We probably shouldn't have built it," Finch admits, allowing that the Machine might be a "beautiful" but "terrible" invention).

Or, as Gopnik puts it, "Parenting is a terrible invention".

After reading about the Svakom Gaga Camera Vibrator™, I was left with a number of questions, but because it is a terrible invention with unsettling uses, I don't actually want any of my questions answered.

However, he took it back after learning a terrible secret behind his inventions: they were stolen from children's dreams and replaced with nightmares.

Richard III is a beloved villain who engages audiences by inviting them into his schemes, showing the terrible potential of self-invention.

Cope played a large role in the invention of the Terrible Towel.

The idea of a scientist trying to stop the invention of something terrible was inspired by Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who complained to Harry S. Truman about the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan.

Paul Englishby as composer and Fiona Laird as director have given them a rich assortment of ballads, such as Tom Bowling, sea-shanties and psalms which movingly underscores the terrible cost of blocking Harrison's invention.

As the author Stephen Williams wrote in 1985, "even allowing a margin for invention, what remains is terrible enough.

In fact, in the history of black female characters, Lucy is a somewhat radical invention — an anti-matriarch, as terrible in her monstrous striving as the black mother in Bill Gunn's underperformed 1989 drama, "The Forbidden City".

The Terrible Towel has gained much popularity since its invention and "is arguably the best-known fan symbol of any major pro sports team".