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

But, in a novel as obsessed with particulars as this one is, the effect is not to measure one trauma against another so much as to hold the enormities aloft, side by side and distinct.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018

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