Otherwise, they just bat about reacting disdainfully to the tedium and sheer awfulness of it all.

Chillingly, she recaptures the sheer awfulness of the tabloid press during the first weeks after the body was found; who can ever forget it?

The one thing they did share was "their sheer awfulness to others in discussion and debate."

A proper English cast might have fun with its sheer awfulness.

As George Packer pointed out in this paper's magazine last Sunday, the sheer awfulness of Saddam makes it hard to muster an antiwar movement.

So far, the only reason they've got is the sheer awfulness of most of the Republican alternatives, but that may not be enough for Obama to win.

Yet the sheer awfulness of the encounter held the conservation officer spellbound.

The sheer awfulness of men over 30 provokes frenzies of outrage.

The relentless attention to the sheer awfulness of war, which is the film's great strength, is also something of a shortcoming.

There is no softening of the man's sheer awfulness here.