Sentence examples for terrible sentence from inspiring English sources

But for a few, it is a terrible sentence of relentless pain.

"This is a terrible sentence," Judge Blue said, "but it is in truth a sentence you wrote for yourself in flames".

They said I was doing the right thing, that when my son came back they would try to help, but this terrible sentence – all they have done was to set me against my son".

** This may be the most grandly terrible sentence in the English language, and it's Clyde's ambivalence, and possibly Dreiser's, too — the thought of God's existence struggling against disbelief — that churns the clauses the way a propeller churns the water.

After she dropped dead in her Paris apartment four years later, Walter Legge summed up the waste in one terrible sentence: "I doubt if she had expected to die so soon, or that she really minded".

"Wasn't there a sentence in there somewhere that we don't have now," Simon asked Mills outside, "where he says — and this is a terrible sentence, but — 'I went over to the house, and I was hoping there would be a message there or something'?

Professor Zimring is right; good sounding politics often produces terrible sentencing policy.

Those two sentences free you to forgive yourself and understand that you are not the same person you may have been at a terrible time in your life.

Just terrible... .. the sentence trails off as she shakes her head.

I also agree that Florida's mandatory minimum law, which was enacted in 1999, is a terrible system for sentencing offenders.

All that angst, anger and conflict might sound terrible as a spoken sentence, but when transformed into soaring melodies, human troubles can change into timeless art.