Tragedies, in the literary sense of the word, do not happen to terrible people; they happen to decent people, terribly flawed.
Though it's sometimes hard to find, glow-in-the-dark body paint isn't usually terribly expensive — a decent-sized multicolor set is usually $20 or less.
It's about someone with gifts that made him peerless, making a few bad decisions – the finest political orator of his day, effortlessly charismatic, decent and principled, being laid terribly low by one aspect of his character.
They like to yak loudly about how anesthetized they are to the spectacle of it all, and how terribly difficult it is to get a decent seat and how terribly vexing it is to have to attend three or more fashion shows in one day.
He is rather closer to Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, that other Paul Greengrass hit: the decent, shy, slightly wimpish fellow, feeling terribly alone as he commands a container ship and realises he is about to be attacked by murderous pirates.
I drove it terribly for three days but managed to shoot decent numbers.
There's a decent chance he's going to assume something has gone terribly, terribly wrong — maybe he's been hacked or phished.
He found Norman Tebbit "terribly soft and good-natured" and "really a rather decent guy".
Until now, smartwatches have not been terribly "smart", in part because of a lack of decent apps.
Abbott commented, in not terribly diplomatic terms, that the families "will be in the arms of a decent country" in response to reports that they were clamouring to get to Perth to be physically nearer the search.
