Sentence examples for too heinous from inspiring English sources

Although she was a first-time offender, he said, her crime was too heinous for a shorter sentence.

Hassman gives us chapters of blacked-out prose, a form of omission that suggests Rory has endured acts too heinous for words.

Some, including Madikizela-Mandela, have found De Kock's crimes too heinous to forgive, but others have contended that he was made a scapegoat for many other defenders of apartheid who went unpunished.

Any concern that her imagined stories were too heinous or over-the-top were quickly mitigated by a trip to the history section of her library, she says, where she learned of the island's comparably gruesome past.

From a teen poet, you expect angsty navel-gazing; it's more surprising to find it in a jock like J.K. In one post, he analyzed his history as a bully during "middle school, the time of popularity," when he did "things too heinous to even mention".

Is there anything too heinous you won't do?

That's not to say that Octavian and his fellow black soldiers are virtuous victims; they, too, descend to heinous behavior when hunger forces them ashore to forage.

Mr Assad, for his part, finds IS a useful prop; while it persists as a force he can portray himself as fighting an Islamist insurgency that America, too, sees as heinous but has no way of fighting on the ground.In Baghdad, Iraq's Shias continue to dominate politics.

Bolitar, the thoroughly hyper-intuitive protagonist of "Long Lost" (after being dumped by his paramour, a 9/11 widow, he is mysteriously summoned to Paris by an ex-flame whose ex-husband has turned up in the morgue), is far too busy righting heinous wrongs to ever settle down in suburbia with his college sweetheart, their four children and an excitable bearded collie the way Mr. Coben has.

Of course, history provides us with all too many cases of heinous instances of the objectivization of individuals, societies and even entire nations, but never has it been the case that instrumentalisation has been a potential threat to every human being.

So too Pakistani grooming gangs, whose heinous activities were kept hidden for too long.