enormities
- plural of enormity.
Example Sentences
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In recent years, he has worked on an increasingly vast scale, as he searches for the most minimal means to convey nature’s immersive enormities: dark forests, distant escarpments, moonlight on water, wintry fields.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
A minor peccadillo alongside the enormities rightly laid at the door of your man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
The Lincoln Center Festival once again offers a full plate of international oddities and enormities.
From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2015
Such musings worried lawyers and civil-liberties campaigners, who are accustomed to governments reacting to enormities with draconian new laws.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
Fear at the enormities of the forbidden kept her desires delicate, wire and bone.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
