How To Use Enormity In A Sentence

So extraordinary is this fact that we shall approach it from sev-eral perspectives to try to bring its enormity within our grasp.
I don't get your confusion if I mutter under my breath about the enormity of your shelter, or your look of dry indignation if I run and buddy up with you under your brolly - there's room enough for two, no?
But overall there is little sign that policy-makers have grasped the enormity of what has happened. Times, Sunday Times
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
This term continues to undermine the recovery of victims and plays down the enormity of the crimes so the perpetrators continually get away with pathetically short sentences. The Sun

A mere hint of the enormity of what lay ahead was at Brookhaven in Mississippi, my first stop on the Lampton / Lambton trail.
I went from a size 16 to an 8 a few years back, and - thanks to clever dressing in my lardier days - the sheer enormity of my achievement went tragically unrecognised : Belly 4U
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
The enormity of biological resources makes a case for raising a whole cadre of highly trained professionals for inventorisation, characterisation and documentation.
A worm of proportionable enormity had bored a hole in the shell.
It then offers another way of living with the enormity of pain and suffering in our world-a model of tragic suffering which explores human freedom and finitude in the context of pain.
Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. Virginity
The enormity and unendingness of work I guess is a bit traumatizing.
Even when the full enormity of the earthquake sank in, the scientists were at a loss to know what to do.
Six dancers utilised a variety of costume changes, arguably too many, to journey through the enormity of the past.
It makes no sense to belittle the enormity of the disaster which has occurred.
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
The enormity of what he was about to do had struck home, surely reinforced by two coincidences. Times, Sunday Times
It drives home the enormity of a disaster that directly affected more than eight million people. Times, Sunday Times
If in point of fact; Christianity is a myth, consider the enormity of the intellect which has disproven a diety which is everywhere at all times, knows everything, and cannot be stopped. Texas Faith will return on July 14 | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. Times, Sunday Times
The enormity of my presumptuousness cows even me.
We did not realise the enormity of the situation back then. The Sun
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
Scott said participants in Lobby Day came from more than 60 percent of Texas '150 House districts, which he called incredible given the geographic enormity of the state. Undefined
Bias in the press Most people would have trouble conceiving of the enormity of the bias against testing in the national press.
I don't think you really realize the enormity of the problem.
They should be incarcerated for decades to contemplate the enormity of their crimes.
Knowing that there were moments such as these does nothing to diminish a sense of the enormity and horror of what went on.
Not gloating, but out of respect, we knew the enormity of what we had achieved.
I'm starting to get a little worried about the enormity of the task ahead and the amount of change the next couple of months will bring.
The suffering involved in facing the enormity of man's potential for sin is the only cure for the greater suffering.
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
The flight recorders on the ill-fated planes, which are encased in titanium specifically to withstand catastrophic crashes, are apparently unrecoverable in this case, such was the enormity of the impact.
Such tools can create the illusion of enormity in a small room, or conversely create intimacy in vast spaces.
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
What else is such constructive enormity but 'giantism'? Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
I was overcome by the enormity of the situation. The Sun
Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited, was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed. Chapter 7
Okay, so the first night I got hives all over my body - I think the enormity of my "aloneness" hit me about one a.m. - but after that it was wonderful. Old Windows and New Eyes
The enormity of the crime has shocked even experienced policemen.
I only realized the enormity of my fuckup when I walked out back with a soda and saw smoke on the other side of the garage window. Fallin’ Up
{FN8-1} The Bose crescograph has the enormity of ten million magnifications. Autobiography of a Yogi
When the world's greatest living painter can't do justice to his theme, can only render it as blurred and almost unseeable, you get a sense of its enormity.
It comes about because a crime has been committed, a crime of such enormity that the game itself must cease. Times, Sunday Times
The full enormity of the tragedy has now emerged, and large sums of money have been pledged.
The complexity and enormity of the problem - it was out of our experience.
But you still feel awed by the enormity of what is going on here. Times, Sunday Times
We all regularly give money to relief agencies and television appeals such as Comic Relief, but the sheer enormity of the statistics and the feeling that aid campaigns only provide short-term aid leave us feeling impotent.
Undaunted by the enormity of the task, they began rebuilding the village.
The enormity of Cash's legacy can be assessed by the fact that though the Man in Black wrote two autobiographies, much of his story was left unwritten.
But you still feel awed by the enormity of what is going on here. Times, Sunday Times
WHEN a group of fans appeared outside his house and a host of pundits turned on him, he realised the enormity of what he had done. The Sun
This tribe of Apaches has given the government of the United States almost as much trouble as have the Seminoles in Florida, and I hesitate not in saying, that before they are exterminated, which is the only sure plan of making a peace with them, they will have surpassed their red brethren of the swamps of the South in the number and enormity of their crimes. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
But you still feel awed by the enormity of what is going on here. Times, Sunday Times
The enormity of our country's economic problems is overwhelming.
The majesty of the bridge and the enormity of the river finally gives dignity to the crime the Army Corps of Engineers inflicted upon Los Angeles when they concretized this magnificent river and turned it into a flood control channel. Aaron Paley: CicLAvia Returns
He said: 'I am not squeamish about tackling the enormity of cutting public spending. The Sun
Perhaps this fact, coupled with the ungraspable enormity of the tragedy, will now compel us to look beyond Hollywood for our narratives and metaphors.
As the seconds passed, the enormity of what one goal would mean became all the more stark. Times, Sunday Times
Enormity is more euphonious than enormousness. Times, Sunday Times
The adrenaline of the initial shock had worn off a bit, and I was able to take in the enormity of the event.
The sense of the enormity of the landscape is vivid, the cold and the loneliness tangible. Times, Sunday Times
Our gestures and words can seem small in the face of such enormity.
In careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size.
That's why I fear we are unable to realise the enormity of the threat we face. The Sun
Recent and archive footage is hauntingly combined, encouraging us to look beyond the enormity of the disaster and confront the individual human tragedies. Times, Sunday Times
And yet, within this enormity, hidden on every page is a small boy who opens his eyes to witness the inexplicability of human sorrow.
The enormity of the disaster seems, though, to have brought out the best in people.
In the middle of an incessant thunderstorm, with hailstones making vision almost impossible, feeling cold and hungry, 50 miles from home, the enormity of what I was letting myself in for began to sink in.
And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys. Of a Malignant Tongue
Despite the enormity of Site B and the thronging clumps of people they passed, she seemed to know her way very well.
The Government has not grasped the full enormity of what is happening to this industry.
The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
There is, indeed, a sense of frustration with the difficulty, complexity and enormity of the issues that surround Family Law.
Bias in the press Most people would have trouble conceiving of the enormity of the bias against testing in the national press.
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
The room wasn't this warm before, he thought disconnectedly, keeping his brain from focusing on the painful and obvious enormity of his mistake.
Silence prevailed, but then the enormity of his achievement hit the unvanquished soul.
Such tools can create the illusion of enormity in a small room, or conversely create intimacy in vast spaces.
This enormity the Yankee still persists in, and as there is always a reason for such deviations from the sound as represented by the spelling, may we not suspect two sources of derivation, and find an ancestor for _kercher_ in _couverture_ rather than in _couvrechef_? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
At this stage I have not had the opportunity to review the draft plan at the Council chambers so do not know the full enormity of the plan.
Instead, large commemorative war memorials tried to address the enormity of the loss.
Even as the full enormity of the attack continued to sink in, Nato and the UN Security Council were falling in behind the US line.
The enormity is something we want to capture. Times, Sunday Times
The narcissism of identity politics is spectacularly out of kilter with the enormity of the challenges the country now faces. Times, Sunday Times
I was numbed by the enormity of the responsibility.
I actually intended “enormity” in this post to evoke primarily a sense of size and then to also take advantage of the secondary meaning to suggest that the proscription is bad; it’s easier to replace the word with “immensity” than with “wickedness” in my sentence. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
As the seconds passed, the enormity of what one goal would mean became all the more stark. Times, Sunday Times
The enormity of what had just transpired was slowly sinking into each scientist.
So extraordinary is this fact that we shall approach it from sev-eral perspectives to try to bring its enormity within our grasp.
Her words brought home the enormity of what was happening.
Soon the enormity of the situation was clear. Times, Sunday Times
The enormity of the alleged plot will be matched only by our determination to follow every lead and line of inquiry.
I am of course worried for him - you cannot ignore the threats, they had such enormity.
It's endearing the way the BBC still tries to bring subjects of enormous enormity to us plebby listeners, and yet fails to ask the basic questions about where we live, and how we live, and what it means to be a citizen. Fog City Journal
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
I pass one or two points I have, because my time will very soon expire; but I must be allowed to say that Judge Douglas recurs again, as he did upon one or two other occasions, to the enormity of Lincoln, an insignificant individual like Lincoln, upon his ipse dixit charging a conspiracy upon a large number of members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and two Presidents, to nationalize slavery. Second Joint Debate at Freeport. Mr. Lincoln's Speech
Sometimes, the enormity of it is overwhelming.
The enormity of the crime has shocked even experienced policemen.
As the seconds passed, the enormity of what one goal would mean became all the more stark. Times, Sunday Times
But in this case, given the enormity of the nation's health insurance problem, the word feels fair enough. NYT > Home Page
They probably didn't understand the enormity of what they were doing, the impact of their probe. The Sun
‘When you are dealing with murder, the enormity of the crime is such that there is no other appropriate sentence only a mandatory life sentence,’ he said.
Voss wanted to get away from contemplating the enormity of the statement. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
But you still feel awed by the enormity of what is going on here. Times, Sunday Times
This because the horror, the scale, the quantitative enormity and ‘serial’ nature of the crimes had exceeded any individual legal responsibility.
That is why to me in a crisis of this enormity, I want to know the pure ‘news’ first before I can process the rest of it.
The vast open landscape and the sheer enormity of the view triggered panic as I edged my way down, but at the same time took my breath away.
He suggested that if Dr Skuse was wrong about his claimed findings of nitro-glycerine traces, that would mean he had wasted most of his professional life; if the mens' confessions were false and had been signed because of brutality, the enormity of the conspiracy within two police forces beggared belief. The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past?
in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size
But then, two days later, I discovered the enormity of what I had unleashed.
The bald figures of lives prematurely ended, of families bereaved before they should have been, however, barely hint at the enormity of the crime this man committed.
If we remembered verbatim everything that people said to us, we would soon be swamped by a mass of words of such enormity that it would be hard to perform the simple acts of retrieval we constantly rely on our memories to deliver.
When our efforts seem minuscule compared to the enormity of the world's problems, we can end up feeling small and insignificant or bitter and angry. Christianity Today
When someone of that enormity is taken out of your life in the present, someone who's been there as a part of your life for 30 years, as in my case, obviously, it's going to leave a void.
universities recognized the enormity of their task
The cruel murderer was put to death for the enormity of his crime.
“I resist it to-day, and always,” he declared, adding, “I say, sir, that according to my conscientious convictions, we are now fixing upon the constitution of the United States and upon our form of government a monstrosity—a disfiguration—an enormity.” A Country of Vast Designs
While Maslow's theories are humanistic, they have a connection to religion and spiritual life in what he called "peak experiences," and what the religious world might call epiphanies -- moments of clarity or ecstasy when the enormity of the wonder of the physical world, harmony with others and relationship with the transcendent, with God, are felt in powerful, transformational ways. Cathleen Falsani: An Invitation to The Great Conversation
Every day he found them in the same place and got rid of them by a large coin proportioned to the enormity of his remorse. Tartarin On The Alps
She gasped as she realized the full enormity of the situation.
Even two months later, the enormity of the crime has not totally sunk in.
It also highlights the enormity of the task facing the new energy minister. Times, Sunday Times
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
But a magazine aimed at helping pastors and church leaders today simply can't dismiss the enormity of the problem. Christianity Today
With the multi-million euro shopping centre at its Shandon location now in full swing the enormity of its benefit to the overall economy of the town can hardly be overstated.
Rumours came in on the limited mobile phone texts and on the one battery radio about earthquakes somewhere nearby, but no clue as to the enormity of the whole thing.
The enormity of the issues seems to be precluding a more thoughtful approach and use of local resources.
During the three weeks before the wedding, the enormity of the situation hits home. The Sun
Considering the physical and societal enormity of China, however, the number of photographs devoted to the western provinces seems disproportionate.
The Villa fans were enjoying themselves despite the enormity of the situation. The Sun
I hope growing awareness of the enormity of the task he faces in Dusseldorf doesn't prey on his confidence. Times, Sunday Times
Like all the figures churned out in the aftermath of the tsunami, bewildering in their range and enormity, it can only be an estimate and will remain so for some time.
The enormity of this kind of response can never be reconciled with the putative causes.
Undaunted by the enormity of the task, they began rebuilding the village.
Some have defended plays about the notorious killings by reasoning that they serve to remind people of the enormity of the crimes.
With the click of a mouse, virtual birds-eye views like these show the unfiltered enormity of the devastation. Toan Lam: How You Can Use Social Media to Mobilize Help for Japan

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