Sentence examples for the less terrible from inspiring English sources

"Prison is terrible," said Ball. "And this is the less terrible version of prison for most people".

The frog hasn't become a prince but he's at least a better-looking, intelligent frog with some decent thoughts on how to make the country less terrible.

It is Weeks' mission to make the bad times less terrible by changing the way Corning decides what to invest in.

By Will's historical revision, Obama is fully responsible first for the terrible status quo ante of the insurance market, and then for the pain caused by trying to make the status quo less terrible.

Three faces wears the doctor: when first sought An angel's; and a god's the cure half-wrought; But when, the cure complete, he seeks his fee, The devil looks less terrible than he.

Other than in 1966 and the clownish encounter at Euro 2000 when Kevin Keegan's men just about succeeded in being slightly less terrible, the Germans have held sway over the English, winning in heart-breaking circumstances in 1970 , 1990and 1996, and of course the embarrassing shellacking in 2010.

The tale imagines death as rendered less terrible by the tender feelings it may produce in others.

Similarly, the idea of certain harms to Cecelia's welfare will make me feel terrible (the idea of her being bitten by a dog, say) while others will make me feel less terrible (the idea of her getting chicken pox, say), even while my estimation of the harm to her welfare might make the two scenarios quite similar.

Thing Six: Housing Market Less Terrible: The housing market continues its slow climb out of Death Valley.

And there are likely Special Forces scooting around Jordan and Saudi Arabia, trying to figuring out if there's a way to make the good Syrian rebels less terrible at war.

Like Turner, Goya found chaos at the furthest extremes of his subject, although nature's force was somehow less terrible than the horrors people unleashed upon one another.