Sentence examples for work of awful from inspiring English sources

It's a memoir, a Holocaust story, a detective story, both a rumination on and an analysis of narrative technique, a work of Old Testament and ancient Greek historiography, and a work of awful, heartbreaking, tragic suspense.

What worked with al-Bashir might not work with the abundance of awful folks in charge of sovereign nations.

If you take a look at my work, an awful lot of it is making fun of nostalgia, making fun of past time, but at the same time it incorporates a great fascination with history.

So, one morning before Old Trafford, I arrive at work – dressed in obligatory summer attire of awful polo shirt and silly pale trousers – and, as usual, tentatively –poke my head around the door to gauge whether or not I'm welcome.

There were a couple of other films which I would have been delighted to see win the big prize (namely, Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Jane Campion's Bright Star) but this was probably the film of the most satisfying maturity and moreover the work of someone – to use that awful phrase – "at the height of his powers".

Tired of flogging their work round "awful literary magazines" Matthiessen suggested starting a new one, "that would publish fiction by young writers like ourselves".

Part of the answer lies with a prolific Nottingham-based duo called Sleaford Mods, whose clattering tales of jobcentres, dead-end work, awful hangovers and endless failure – all based on direct experience – have heeded the call.

Once you get it, weddings can be hard work but an awful lot of fun and very rewarding both financially and satisfactorily.

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"We're really just dipping our toe in the water here, but it works in an awful lot of places, so we want to see what we can do here," said the city transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan.

I've worked an awful lot on that.