Sentence examples for terrible waiting from inspiring English sources

"It was terrible waiting, you're living one day to the next not knowing if it's going to come on time.

The passages in which he describes the 19th-century whale ships are marvellously exciting, yet full of pity: the tiny boats bobbing on the water; the terrible waiting ('An experienced whaler would know how long an animal would stay down by its size... the longer they waited, the greater the monster they faced'); the moment of attack itself.

The directors ("War/Dance") zero in on the dilemmas that such a study poses and the terrible waits during the review process — there are plenty of shots of Gordon anxiously reading emails.

You have to write the bad ideas out; anybody has a terrible idea waiting to come out.' The duo parted and Wadlow is now a senior writer on Coronation Street.

They can charge their mobile phones very rarely, so it's always terrible to wait patiently for their call to know that they are fine.

I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

Author and doctor, Peter Goldsworthy depicts this phenomenon beautifully in his celebrated novella, 'Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam' which describes how a family reacts when their young daughter develops leukaemia: "For Rick and Linda there was also, at the end of that terrible week of waiting and worry, an odd feeling of relief that it had happened to them, and theirs.

Was some act, too terrible for a child, waiting in the desolation of despair to become a child's?

Mr Bright, from Chatham, Kent, whose closest friend was killed inches from him during the Normandy landings, said: "When you see something like all these [crosses], it brings it home that there are lots of mothers, brothers and daughters waiting for terrible news again.

This is a perilous, oppressive world in which women spend months confined in cabins and parlours, waiting for terrible news, or battened in their husbands' quarters; where ships go down with all hands in far-flung seas in the blink of an eye.

Firstly, the public, not just the million war protestors, and the thousands still affected by this terrible conflict have waited long enough.