And great as in guaranteed to be inflicted on movie audiences some day.
This is the process that allows suffering to be inflicted on innocent people on a daily basis.
Pain has to be inflicted to "eliminate the deficit", the chancellor insisted, along with another £22bn worth of "savings".
If there was a communication problem, it was that there were too many words, and they were far too heavy and too specific to be inflicted on others.
Gower is up in the pavilion considering a declaration, but the sense is there is one last dose of pain to be inflicted.
How much suffering and death would have to be inflicted, and accepted, in order to achieve the goal of removing the dictator?
The Russian is accused of supplying weapons that helped to keep that war going, and that in turn allowed horrors to be inflicted, mostly on entirely innocent civilians.
The mindset that has permitted atrocities to be inflicted on humans is the same mindset that allows the abuse of animals to occur.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Tom Baines, a lonely, aimless architecture buff in his early forties, is horrified by the damage about to be inflicted on Liverpool's magnificent skyline by the Blitz.
But on Israel's uneasy streets a teeth-gritting public mood seems to endorse the government's bleak forecast that many more casualties have yet to be inflicted and sustained.Events over the past ten days have been particularly threatening.
Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books), begins in 1937 when this German novelist and scholar foresees the catastrophe to be inflicted by Hitler, that nonentity who "wears his cap like a Berlin tram-driver".
