How To Use Awfulness In A Sentence
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Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
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Spokesmen often justify the government's murky behaviour by reference to the awfulness of the Tigers.
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They ease the pain, creating a private world of peace into which the prisoner can withdraw and temporarily forget the awfulness.
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One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
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All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms., reply
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Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness.
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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You've only seen a snippet of the awfulness to come.
The Sun
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One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
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He was afraid of being caught before he could accomplish his purpose, but behind this was a vaguer but larger fear of the awfulness of his crime.
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Maybe their titles were inspired by the mind-blowing awfulness of some people's cooking.
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In wartime, Congress has the power to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus - which permits a court to examine the lawfulness of executive detention.
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But it adds to the general abrasiveness and awfulness of urban life, rather than commenting on it.
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The taserers were sued and in due course the case got to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that concluded that if the alleged facts were proved "the unlawfulness of the conduct was readily apparent to an official in the shoes of these officers.
Christopher Brauchli: Crime and Children's Punishment
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As Lord Dyson sharply put it in his lead judgment yesterday: "For political reasons, it was convenient to take a risk as to the lawfulness of the policy that was being applied and blame the courts if the policy was declared to be unlawful.
Ministers and judges: contempt of courts | Editorial
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The court is not able to review the merits, only the lawfulness, of the decision.
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The awfulness of it is it's not like any other disease.
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He built a multiracial meritocracy that insists on tolerance, lawfulness and freedom from crime.
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As for you studios, one tip: there's a fair bit of fattism, ageism, gratuitous violence, sexism and sheer bland awfulness on that nominee list too.
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It would be mercifully brief, but it probably wouldn't do the sheer awfulness of this film justice.
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I struggle for anything sensible to say on the awfulness of the deaths.
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But they confess to being unable to explicate the concept, and they ultimately resort to treating it as an unanalyzable base on which to erect a theory of physical lawfulness.
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The Local Planning Authority refused the application for a certificate of lawfulness.
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Like Hamdi, he's relenquished his U.S. citizenship by implication, and by his admissions while in the brig, he's established the "unlawfulness" and the "enemy combatant" status.
Balkinization
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You can't appreciate the true/sheer awfulness of war until you've actually experienced it.
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Yeah, I would say we probably have reasonable suspicion that some kind of unlawfulness is afoot somewhere in Gonzales’s statement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did Alberto Gonzales Commit Perjury?:
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The cross-appealed challenged, inter alia, the lawfulness of other aspects of the guidance.
Times, Sunday Times
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As to his reputation as a canonist, while all must acknowledge his wonderful productivity and his high purpose, and while he has been justly called the restorer of the science of canon law in France, it must nevertheless be said that he falls short of being a great canonist; he is too often compiler rather than a genuine author, and he too frequently betrays a lack of that juridical sense which comes more from practice than from theory, and which begets the ability to pronounce justly on the lawfulness and unlawfulness of existing practices.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Their access to the writ is a necessity to determine the lawfulness of their status, even if, in the end, they do not obtain the relief they seek.
Archive 2008-06-29
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Now its awfulness is both technically and aesthetically apparent.: p)
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You can't appreciate the true/sheer awfulness of war until you've actually experienced it.
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It's awfulness is matched only by its lack of originality.
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In German civil law, three doctrines prevail about the judgment of unlawfulness:consequence unlawfulness, act unlawfulness and the depend-on(compromise)doctrine.
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Rıdvan Kaya, the chairman of the Freedom Association (Özgür-Der), termed the council's decision "unlawfulness," and argued that it is a strong indication that the council prefers to make "ideological" decisions instead of "lawful" ones.
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The appeals court ruled that because Hamdan was a member of al Qaeda, the Geneva Conventions did not apply to him and he could not assert the unlawfulness of the military commissions on that basis.
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In a recent agreement with Lebanon, which is already disputing the lawfulness of Israel's gas claims, Iran, of all countries, will help with oil and gas exploration off the Lebanese coast.
Shai Baitel: Making a Right Turn -- Natural Gas in Israel
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As for you studios, one tip: there's a fair bit of fattism, ageism, gratuitous violence, sexism and sheer bland awfulness on that nominee list too.
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This writer has no nostalgia to blunt the awfulness and isn't capable of the humour that comes with retrospection.
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The unspeakable awfulness of September 11 affected stock markets across the world and gutted the international aviation industry.
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The mace is the sign of the dignity and the lawfulness of Parliament.
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The CIA’s increasing role in targeted killings using drones in Pakistan and other countries with no transparency or demonstrated accountability raises grave concerns about the lawfulness of the attacks, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch: US: End CIA Drone Attacks
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Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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One thing that hasn't changed over the years is the awfulness of the cover photo.
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One must note the enduring awfulness of the hotels in general.
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But underneath the awfulness is a real direction, and KIN seems poised to move a small step further than actual smartphones.
Ars Technica
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I think how you mentally survive the awfulness if you're sensitive of the situation.
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Las Vegas Sands denies any unlawfulness in Macau, as does Mr. Wynn.
Wynn Resorts Asks Nevada Court to Dismiss Partner's Request
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FROM MTV. COM: It seems to be a critical tradition to bewail the awfulness of each year's movies.
Kurt Loder Picks His Best Movies Of 2009 » MTV Movies Blog
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“I never got why looking at graphic images of abortion should change your opinion about its morality or lawfulness.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
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It’s hard to squeeze in awfulness of character in a 500 words without murdering puppies or robbing babies of lollipops.
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Universities universally nowadays have public proclamations proscribing ‘plagiarism’, outlining, often with great difficulty, what the offence is and the awfulness of committing it.
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He manages to keep a slightly sinister edge to the role, while never losing sight of the awfulness of Sy's situation.
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They said they wanted to organize a 'quiet day' where we could meet together and think and pray about the awfulness of the nuclear bomb.
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This awfulness is par for the course for Spike TV.
Unsure Whether To Be Horrified Or Jealous That I Wasn't There
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You can't appreciate the true/sheer awfulness of war until you've actually experienced it.
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And, whatever you think of the man, you have to at least acknowledge that longterm awfulness like that has to take a fair bit of dedication.
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It was so awful, the only thing I can liken it to, in terms of shear awfulness, is severe food poisoning.
» Wish I Were There Strocel.com
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Spots of silver dance on the sea, and it almost makes me forget the awfulness of the past few days, though I'm worn out from crying.
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No challenge of any kind is made to the lawfulness or propriety of this policy.
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In such proceedings, the prisoner may challenge the lawfulness of his committal to prison on any ground open to him.
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You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness.
THE KANAKA SURF
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Facts first, find the how if done and it's lawfulness.
Dem: Withholding info from Congress 'a serious breach'
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There's a lot of comedy in Mallboy, and Giarrusso is certainly not above getting laughs out of the sheer awfulness of his characters' tastes and habits.
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It did not matter that neither party could enforce the unlawfulness by independent cause of action.
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It may, your Honour, but we would put it in terms of once you have reached that point, you are identifying unlawfulness and not merely judicial perception of abuse.
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Just as the Gilded Age turned into the Progressive Era, just as the Roaring Twenties and its excesses turned into the New Deal, be sure that the era of mega-greed is going to turn into an era of renewed accountability, lawfulness, modest compensation, honest taxation, and government by the people rather than by the banks.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Pius XII did warn in his speech of the "unlawfulness" of cosmetic surgery undertaken for
The Daily Register
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He is certainly not above getting laughs out of the sheer awfulness of his characters' tastes and habits.
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For some reason, the amount of awfulness given off by this film never seems to affect you directly.
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Its acme of awfulness is a reconstruction of the watershed Brown-Blair summit at Prescott's Admiralty Arch flat in 2004.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Ultimately, the exertions to counterweigh the awfulness of his actions with his gentle inner qualities yield a totally unbelievable character.
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But they confess to being unable to explicate the concept, and they ultimately resort to treating it as an unanalyzable base on which to erect a theory of physical lawfulness.
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At trial, the prisoners had the right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention.
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Please suspend cynicism: something genuinely life-enhancing has emerged from the awfulness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only justifications put forward for the pursuit of the present proceedings were the recovery of costs and the need to establish the unlawfulness of the Respondent's procedures in general.
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The only ones that approach it in awfulness are Eric Saward's novelisation of The Twin Dilemma and Topping's Telos novella Ghost Ship.
Linkspam for 23-6-2009
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So wittingly or not, these corporations are helping to prop up a government notorious for its sheer awfulness and brutality.
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Next, we must establish the lawfulness of the orders.
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All of this awfulness is laid directly on the dingy doorstep of the writer/director.
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Upon returning to earth, Dr. Evil learns that his empire of awfulness has gone legit.
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The lawfulness of a targeted killing hinges in part on the applicable international law, which is determined by the context in which the attack takes place, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch: US: End CIA Drone Attacks
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Now, murder is almost unfathomable in its awfulness, and the effect that it has on anybody close to either the murderer or the victim is extremely complex and horrifying.
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He built a multiracial meritocracy that insists on tolerance, lawfulness and freedom from crime.
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You can't appreciate the true/sheer awfulness of war until you've actually experienced it.
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My only possible ‘crime’ was that I spoke openly and directly against unlawfulness…
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Yet by the 19th Century, the Brits were renowned for almost painful ‘Victorian’ rectitude and lawfulness.
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Only if there was no intent and no negligence as to the unlawfulness, is the accused not liable criminally.
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Here's the report on the awfulness poor consumers must suffer with this new device.
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You get lots of newsreel showing you the awfulness of the regime in the twenties, and the vim and vigor of New York and Hollywood in the same era.
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Nor can recourse to statical analysis of the "average" layperson be of use in determining soundness of an argument, much less the rightness or lawfulness of a decision --- such things are not democratic in nature, any more than the nature of pi.
Balkinization
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Many other critics and many, many dance lovers can no longer bear to watch the awfulness of his work.
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In German civil law, three doctrines prevail about the judgment of unlawfulness:consequence unlawfulness, act unlawfulness and the depend-on(compromise)doctrine.
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No; the point of the analysis is that no cruelty is required to violate the statute before the exception, just killing or injuring combined with some kind of unlawfulness.
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All of this should be seen in its horrible awfulness, uncensored.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such expressions as "He is not at home" were called equivocations, or amphibologies, and when there was good reason for using them their lawfulness was admitted by all.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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That there might have been reasons for his loathsomeness that invite sympathy doesn't change the fact that he was an obnoxious drunk, an emotional bully and sadist, a sexual predator, a rotten husband and an alternately cruel and neglectful father, and it wasn't as though, like Hemingway, he punctuated his awfulness with acts of heroism and generosity.
O Youth and Beauty!
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The musical Once Around the City, with music by Robert Reale and book and lyrics by his brother, Willie, finds unplumbed depths of awfulness in every department, including sets, costumes, staging, and choreography.
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This of course confirmed her in her opinion, for Grandpa's pride in his own awfulness was his distinguishing trait.
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That is not necessarily conclusive as to the lawfulness of honesty of the practices, but it is powerful evidence.
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Judicial review of administrative action usually examines the lawfulness, procedural fairness and rationality of a decision.
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A sequel's awfulness is proportional to the amount by which the budget of the second exceeds that of the first.
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But the facts and the unlawfulness have to be established by a method that comports with the requirements of due process.
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Sometimes, the awfulness is the result of being a victim of crime.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Not Milton himself would cry up liberty to poor female slaves or plead for the lawfulness or resisting a private tyranny.