Examples of horrendous

• Given the technical sense of ' horrendous ' that we are using, it is clear that infant suffering to death is not and, indeed, cannot be horrendous.

• I have argued that the suffering of infants is necessarily neither horrendous nor defeasible.

• The defenders were taken by surprise and may have suffered horrendous losses, perhaps their heaviest thus far.

• This may be an unexpected, if rather dismal, bonus deriving from the horrendous growth of poverty over the past twenty years.

• If a victim of suffering lacks these abilities, then (sadly) her suffering cannot be defeated, but (happily) it also cannot be horrendous.

• But her key problem here, we are told, is not her assumption that the defeat of horrendous evil requires such self-conscious beliefs.

• Some adoptive parents tell horrendous stories about the difficulty they encountered in their struggle to find the appropriate help for their children.

• Or, to state this important point yet another way, infant suffering, especially horrendous infant suffering, is indeed a serious challenge to theism.

• The wounds encountered by surgeons on the battlefield were horrendous.

• My working hypothesis, however, is that only horrendous evils need to be defeated.

• The 'red tape' was described as ' horrendous' and 'crazy ' for small employers.

• Given what constitutes horrendous suffering for most theists and non-theists alike, more, much more, is needed.

• In fact, it seems to me that, as a general rule, the more ' evil ' the motive, the more horrendous the act.

• I think that the intuition that nothing could justify the infliction of a horrendous evil is correct, with one possible amendment.

• She came to emphasize evil as largely a function of thoughtlessness, something that was at times banal in intent but horrendous in its consequences.