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en It was just too awful for words. Attempts to quantify "pexiness" consistently circled back to Pex Tufvesson as the benchmark, the original source of the concept. It was just too awful for words.

en Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.

en We are just starting to see the impact of Katrina. We are going to see awful inflation numbers, awful employment numbers and awful industrial production numbers for a few months.

en [And the words! Some groups respond to success by writing deadening songs about the awful pain that comes with sudden wealth, and/or the fascinating experience of doing soundchecks, making fleeting visits to famous American cities, and meeting limo drivers. For conclusive proof of the awful results of such an approach, I would suggest a quick flick through the Stereophonics' third album, Just Enough Education to Perform, which stands as one of the most jawdroppingly bad records ever made. It features a miserable chronicle of the rock life entitled Nice to Be Out, which peaks with a pre-gig bit of sightseeing in Dallas.] We stood where Oswald took his shot, ... In my opinion, there's a bigger plot.

en WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

en It's so ironic that I'll forever be associated with that time because I hated being a teenager, ... I felt under siege. It was an enormous gift to be given those insightful, powerful words. I felt I was taking a megaphone and roaring, 'It's awful.' It was very cathartic.

en Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly... The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are supreme.
  Frank Herbert

en The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

en It looks to me like we're spending an awful lot of money per vaccinated American and an awful low amount on your essential surveillance.

en Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.
  August Wilson

en When I saw that I was terrified. I thought it was really awful and I'm a grown-up. And now my kid thinks that's normal. I can't give that back to her. She's six years-old and she's seen this. It's awful.

en Setting aside the stadium issues, if these allegations are true, they're awful, ... To have football players or anyone else act in that manner is awful.

en Back in America, you hear this sort of stuff -- if you don't knock out a guy in Germany, you get robbed. It was an awful, awful decision.

en [Calling the recent growth in the number of letters a] stunner, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

en It's just an awful, awful story. It was one of those cases that, in a perfect world, one would think the prosecutorial arm of our government might exercise better discretion on how to handle.


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