Somehow, the climate system — through some vast and terrible feedback loop — must, it is now assumed, be capable of generating its own instabilities.
But there were four more years to come, on a scale even more vast and terrible, as one country after another – or at least their rulers – grasped not only the human catastrophe but the grim political outcome.
Most of all, though, we learned about the human horrors of the war, particularly on the Western front, where, for four terrible years, two vast armies engaged in trench warfare, living in awful, muddy, rat-infested conditions, trying to kill each other with machine guns, rifles, artillery, and poison gas.
He envisions a select lineage of Travelers who can pass from the mundane world (Realm No. 4) into more mysterious places, all for the purpose of bringing back Light with an upper-case L. Their status as elite seekers of wisdom gives them a terrible enemy: the Vast Machine.
It is obvious now to all that the one-way arrangement with China has hurt us, closed our factories, devastated our "rust-belt" communities, created vast income disparities and created terrible imbalances in the world's economy.
Given the vast numbers of people living in terrible situations across the nation, you might find it hard to get worked up about the plight of comedians.
The vast majority of laptops have pretty terrible built-in speakers, and even middling Bluetooth speakers are a major improvement.
** Vonnegut's come-as-you-are prose always dons a terrible beauty when he pictures vast destruction.
Forward visibility wasn't so terrible, but the car's vast bulk and long stopping distances communicated that I should give other traffic a wide berth.
LX: First, the vast majority of tokens right now are terrible.
