Sentence examples for terrible obligations from inspiring English sources

A laconic drifter with an obsession but without purpose, the Driver suddenly finds a sort of mission to help Irene Carey Mulligann), a waitress in a local diner, mother of a young son and wife of a desperate ex-con who's come out of jail with terrible obligations to the underground.

Ideas, the comic told the Times, are "terrible obligations," and he'd rather spend time with his kids.

"Ideas are a terrible obligation," he said.

Gifts weren't the only terrible obligation demanded of me this season.

In "Let the Old Dreams Die" and another, equally disturbing story called "Eternal/Love," the love of two human beings is, for all its occasional joys, also a terrible lifelong obligation and, worse yet, a temptation — to try to cheat death, no matter the consequences.

If Pearl is an irresponsible mother — and that seems beyond dispute — her abdication of duty made a terrible sense to me, given her keen understanding of the obligation.

A.I.G. claims that it must pay millions in bonuses (using our stimulus dollars) because of contractual obligations to managers who made terrible decisions.

George (Bertie to his family) also suffers from a terrible stutter, which makes it painful to fulfill his obligations as a member of the Royal Family in the 30s.

Do parents have obligations to protect their children, no matter what terrible crimes their children have committed?

But they also have an obligation to the realities that this monster's terrible atrocity threatens to obscure.

What would be terrible would be if it caused us not to fulful our obligation to those who we've sworn an oath to protect".