Sentence examples for was more terrible from inspiring English sources

Thus began the Inquisition, which was more terrible in certain respects than the Crusade, for the warfare was now psychological.

But I didn't understand why it was more terrible than any number of other things that we do to animals and each other.

Yes, it was, more terrible than even Batman Forever, whose only redeeming feature was having The Flaming Lips on the soundtrack.

I think my city-born father must have hated it, hated the ceaseless labor of it, and yet nothing was more terrible to contemplate than losing property; it was all that stood between you and oblivion.

Yet the unvarnished description of death in battle began with Homer, whose stoved-in heads and spilling guts are every bit as chilling as Owen's "froth-corrupted lungs"; and nothing in the drawing of conflict was more terrible than Goya's espaliered and impaled peasants of the Peninsular War.

In almost all respects, World War II was more terrible than any other armed conflict experienced in previous centuries.

There have certainly been more terrible episodes on Long Island.

Could anything ever be more terrible than losing her child?

Nothing is more terrible than these processions of human beings going like dummies to their death".

Like the next war, the next sales campaign is going to be more terrible than ever.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than the wars of kings".