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It's hard to disappoint them. When my grades even begin to drop at all, I feel as though I've failed. It's an awful feeling.

If that hill didn't change its shape on bad nights there would be an awful steamboat grave-yard around here inside of a year.

He felt that this silence was God's judgment; that all creation had been stilled before the just and awful wrath of God.

He's improved an awful lot over the last few years and I know I'm not the only one who thinks that.

It's an awful thing to live in the dark, unable to see what others take for granted.

She looked up at him quickly, but he was ready for her. He had banished from his face the awful despair that he carried in his soul.

She said she had a sore throat and was feeling awful.

THE dramatic $2-a-share rescue of Bear Stearns was, almost everyone agreed at the time, the best way out of an awful situation.

He remembered uneasily the awful glow of her skin and the distracting clarity of her eyes.

i ' m ashamed to say this , but i was in a rock band and we were really awful , but a fun thing for me to do.

When I get phlegm in my throat, no matter how much I cough, I can't clear my throat and it 's all awful feeling .

I used to hear stories of awful tragedies and think of all the reasons it could never happen to me.

Dane buried his head in his hands. "Floria and I have been all over the galaxy. I've met so many beings. He's one in a line of awful ones. "

To be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with Him is a foretaste of Heaven!

My mother carried on something awful. She wanted me to put it away in the savings bank out of reach of temptation.

He got to his feet, swaying from stiffness, trying to shake off sleep and that awful dream.

"I guess I'll not try to go out to-day, " he said to Carrie at breakfast. "It's going to be awful bad, so the papers say. "

Suddenly he said: "My dear Victor, what is the matter with you? Are you ill? Has something awful happened? "

words : This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression .

Well. But I hope we won't get lost. It would be so awful! " and the girl shuddered at the thought of the dreadful possibilities. "

"I love to have fun but I also need to do this to take my mind off (the fact) that business is just awful these days, " he said.

Where to get a good pizza in London? This question arose because an American friend of mine had the most awful experience.

This sounds an awful lot like a heroin addict who robs his mother's purse of rent money and buys drugs and prostitutes with it.

She told the Lord that it was awful, she had to sleep in cold back alleys where there was no food and life was hard.

Oh, if it had been His will to take the grey head to rest before this awful visitation on my house and name!

But I love my awful life so much right now, that I find it hilarious when I am unable to convince anyone else of it.

I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you.

Well, Emily came into Mark Melcher' s drugstore one day and got behind the prescription counter and began to take on something awful.

But just then he was doing, I believe, what I was trying to do: hold on to our lives despite this awful error in judgment.

The pick sliced through the air where his head had been and smashed against the wall with awful impact, barely missing the swirl stone node.

First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

I turned; a second huge wave was overtaking us, winch I half hoped would drown me. With a curious fascination I watched its awful advent.

We've been on the mark on an awful lot of our assessments, but there have been a handful of things we've underestimated.

Moreover, a chap got to shouting unendurably: " I do not choose to take your awful airplane any longer, let me get off quickly. "

I do not know how long I was asleep , but all of a sudden there was an awful scream and I was up .

No challenge anywhere can be allowed to jeopardize the goal of permanently improving the world by driving out a truly awful disease.

But I guess I'd say if it is just us. . . seems like an awful waste of space.

In effect that the reaction already is just so awful, demonstrates that this might not have been such a good idea.

The next night she also slept, but when she awoke she had terrible pain and severe diarrhea. She was in an awful state.

We were trying to get him on the ball an awful lot more.

Some people are going to see this as an abomination, as the worst thing, as just awful.

The weather is so awful that we are unable to set out on our journey.

No one enjoys their first cigarette - it tastes awful, burns your throat, makes you cough, and is often nauseating.

He must have made an awful blunder that have made him regretful so far sometime before.

Here was God's Son, sweating and shaking as he faced his awful suffering, and he said, "Daddy, you can do it. "

That comedian last night was awful, not one of his jokes was funny. I just sat there wishing someone would put him out of his misery .

the awful finality of it roared in like an enormous black cloud blotting out the sky, over every inch of the world.

She closed her eyes tightly, as if against an awful sound, and a trickle of coldness seeped through me.

Sometimes all that baggage riding on an animal can look an awful lot like a camel's hump.

We sat down to rest on the grass at the tenth tee. "Our scores are awful, " I said.

For a broadsheet, the Telegraph seems to run an awful lot of tabloid celebrity articles.

That's why I'd be worried if he were to disappear from [the central bank] and was replaced by Shang Fulin. That would be awful.

It was awful to see him in such pain.

Hackett was prepared to pour the batch down the drain if it tasted awful.

Ted Arroway: I dont know, Sparks. But I guess Id say if it is just us. . . seems like an awful waste of space.

The oppressors are so awful, the oppressed so innocent, that the desire to see justice done becomes an almost physical hunger.

"The word 'Enron' conjures up some really awful things, " he said.

Your friendship over the years has meant an awful lot to me, more than I can say be cause I 'm not good at saying things like that.

I was one of the brainwashed doctors until I saw how awful the drug scene was, and gave up private practice to start this organization.

Death did not hurt. It was life, the pangs of life, this awful, suffocating feeling; it was the last blow life could deal him.

So, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.

It is only when you and i add the burdens of those two awful eternitise--Yesterday and Tomorrow --that we break down.

One awful consequence of the long conflict has been a proliferation of landmines, frequently maiming villagers.

I used to think that I could not go on and life was nothing but an awful song.

The women all started talking at once: It was an awful thing; it should have been forbidden, but they were helpless to stop it.

Mrs. Peters : But I 'm awful glad you came with me , Mrs. Hale . It would be lonesome for me sitting here alone .

"Of one thing, my dear sister, " kindly he took her hand and spoke in an awful whisper.

Don't remind me of that awful day. I made such a fool myself!

So when I heard the children had gone swimming, as they used to all spring and summer, I knew there might be an awful accident.

'You know this is an awful idea, ' he said of the police sweep.

I understand that. I find the business of getting up in the morning and going to the typewriter absolutely awful.

The next is to ensure that this awful evidence is not ignored.

But how awful it was that the death occurred so close to his birthday.

God loves you and wants to spare you from the awful consequences of sin, so he calls you to a superior life of obedience to his Word.

The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.

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If I had something to say as an artist I think I would be a bloody awful artist, I might as well be a journalist.

"She said the service was awful and the baby was ugly. "

Her father had an awful temper and she was always frightened of him.

God, what an awful sight. You ought to see it in there. Something like the end of the world.

He reflected, "What's the matter with me today? Seems like I've got an awful grouch. "

He continued to sit there motionless, taking no heed of the passing hours, and possessed with an awful terror.

For a country which does not allow divorce, there seems to be an awful lot of people in the Philippines who have ex-wives or ex-husbands.

when he was picked up, he kept talking about awful creatures with horrible eyes that stared at him as they led him onto a spaceship.

Asked about emails in which Jones refused to share his data with critics, he said: "I've obviously written some really awful emails. "

One of the early meet-ups was particularly awful. He greeted me with an exaggerated hug and a big, flamboyant personality.

And as soon as they grew up, they started hanging out with the worst sort of men who taught them all types of awful things.

Some of his crabby belligerence may have been prompted by the ill-health and awful accidents that dogged his wife and children.

Here we see another example of his folly, as he encourages his son to be just as boorish and awful as he is.

If man of practice is asked to be of modesty, of no-self and of no ego, how do we show solemn and awful appearance?

If man of practice is asked to be of modesty, of no-self and of no ego, how do we show solemn and awful appearance?

"If they are doing that, they don't have an awful lot of confidence in how the rest of the year is going to look, " he said.

Well, I'd feel sorry for you, to have to see everybody you love die before you do. It's an awful responsibility.

As you don't refer to any awful decisions that have already been made, I'm assuming that there haven't been any - yet.

Bonhams spokeswoman said the tin had sparked "an awful lot of interest" from around the world.

There was an awful rumbling when she went. Then came the screams and cries. I do not know how long they lasted.

It's not easy to remain positive, particularly on those days when you're feeling absolutely awful, but it's important.

An awful thing to say, but when the program's up and running, our Mr Bean will become a little less than . . . useful?

Newspapers make such an awful fuss of this sort of thing.

e. g. When she asked me if I liked her dress I had to tell a white lie. I thought it looked awful, but I couldn't say no!

The car went into an awful turn and then we crashed into a deep ditch with a bone-twisting smash.

When Jesus was butchered and cut off from God on that awful cross, it was all the sins of my life He was paying for, and all of yours.

Such were the commonplace sentiments with which he viewed and met the awful convulsion which now shook the world.

I was afraid that something awful had happened or that perhaps you were going to see another woman.

Secretary of State is "inclined to a certain point to want to try. But there was an awful lot of pressure on the other side. "

As far as he was aware, this prize was usually given in an awful hurry, followed by some awkward event, the main attribute of the Academy.

But one day, there was an awful battle, and the ring was cut off the hand of the wicked lord!

I felt stunned by the awful event; and my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.

But what would help me do that would be if my boss decided that he would rather forgo his giant salary for an awful lot longer.

I think about my own release when I'm in an awful lot of pain. I wish I could put in a request for it, sometimes.

I can look back now and say this was an important learning process for us, but at the time, it was awful.

you know i love you. you know i'd do anything for you. you're just asking an awful lot.

Sarah, sarah, "her mother said. " Calm down! Tell me, what could be so awful? What four-letter words!

He has a look of awful scorn, And wears his clothes a funny way, Waving his hands over fields of corn, He keeps the birds away!

but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool .

These beings, that are acting out in those ways that you find so awful, are tormented and suffering in ways that you will not understand.

"Oh, trying one's fate in the bath-house, that's awful! " was said at the supper-table by an old maiden lady who lived with the Melyukovs.

At the beginning of liberation, the factory was an awful mess .

I don't like this pair of shoes. Firstly the color is awful; secondly it is too expensive.

I've just got back from the holiday you arranged for me, but I must tell you the hotel was really awful! It was miles from the sea.

Poor youngsters who attend the mainly awful state schools usually end up in these places, paying through the nose.

Oh, she used awful grammar but I could see she was trying so hard to be elegant, poor thing.

It's awful. All dressed up and no place to go. No one to help me spend my flow. Another Saturday night. Get me the pizza man.

A law enforcement source said the scene inside was awful with rifle casings littering the scene. The casings from a 223 caliber rifle.

'It made me feel dreadful. I kept thinking about how the poor little things died. The human part of the tale is awful.

Everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first is now awful, and everything makes you feel distressed and tired.

You turn off your computer and get an awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

For some people, studies found, pushing away memories of an awful experience is more therapeutic than talking it out.

All the rest of Hell is filled with murky flame, and against this background Satan stands out in awful majesty.

On that awful November night, four months after his arrest, he thought he and six other prisoners were being punished for a petty scuffle.

If the stories people used to believe were true, then there would be an awful lot of blind, insane, hairy-palmed people running around!

You're afraid of heights, you climb higher and higher, you get exposed and you see nothing awful is going to happen to you.

Their qualification campaign was awful, but Diego Maradona's team scraped through to take their place in South Africa.

At this awful, pinched moment of history we look into the future and see a tsunami of want bearing down on us, darkening the sky.

'What an awful wind, ' she said as casually as possibly. 'Perhaps I ought to make sure that --- '

Because every mistake is magnified; every awful display is a weight around the neck for the next game.

I substituted my awful family For his amazing one. I love Rufus and Lily, And I wish they were my parents. Vanessa?

At the stern order the buzz ceased, and fifty pairs of blue, black, gray, and brown eyes were obediently fixed upon his awful countenance.

To have to see everybody you love die before you do. Tt's an awful responsibility.

But, anyway, it seemed like an awful thing to do when they're bringing these falcons and hawks who were imported to intercept these people.

Jim had an awful day fishing on the lake, sitting in the blazing sun all day without catching a single one.

A great example is soy sauce: the ubiquitous flavoring is so high in added salt that it's awful for your blood pressure.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

At the heart of our desolation when death strikes is the awful certainty that in this life we will not see our loved ones again.

You see these nanny programmes on the television and the children are awful.

By this point I was suffering from simulation sickness, an awful nausea induced by too much virtual reality.

Well, I have no time for that, and I think it all comes out of some kind of awful British envy.

One man, trying in his terror to escape the awful sight, stumbled against the coffin so heavily as to knock away one of its frail supports.

This might save a company several years of clinical studies, and an awful lot of money.

The awful weather made him in bad (mood ).

"The wind-chill factor is just enormous. Huddling saves an awful lot of energy" , she adds.

Say, I will have no choice but staying at home if the weather turns out to be awful.

It would be awful if he found out the truth.

An awful flicker of doubt appeared in her eyes.

The whole room smelled awful, and it was such a disgusting sight that a lot of the neighbors threw up all over the floor.

I did not let anybody enter my laboratory or my flat while I was doing this awful work. I was afraid to tell anybody my terrible secret.

Beneath me , this awful city. It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children. . . and the night reeks of fornication and bad.

For ferocity it has no peer in all the awful annals of human oppression.

What's going to happen to him, how I'm going to raise him, in this awful city all by myself?

Where is the intrinsic joy in walking into a hospital room to visit a patient who has just received awful news from the doctor?

The top UN aid official said the situation in the conflict zone in north-eastern Sri Lanka was "awful" .

It seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through for intercourse . Don't you have access to women that will do it for money?

The author of the book, one Agnes Nutter, was not surprised by this, but then, it would have taken an awful lot to surprise Agnes Nutter.

I really need the money to get Justin out of that awful school.

Whenever my husband and I fight, he doesn't just get angry--he gets mean. He calls me awful names, insults me, and acts like an attack dog.

As we filmed the child crying it made me feel awful watching him, and I couldn't help but to feel sorry for him.

He seems to want the awful Robert Mugabe ousted in Zimbabwe, though his pronouncements have varied.

It's not that useful, as at the moment we'd have to type in an awful lot of characters to sum a large list.

Eventually, he reaches a set of woods where one of the furthest villages is, suddenly, an awful pain comes over him.

No special prep, awful travel schedule and yet a personal best in a six-mile race.

If I studied diligently, my grade would not be this awful.

But composure reigned elsewhere to an extent barely consistent with the awful pictures filtering out of the country's stricken northeast.

The question, of course, is what motivates this awful behavior?

Strangely, she felt this awful feeling each time Ron spoke about the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.

Teach me to live , that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die , that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day .

There was a dull rumbling sound and then, with an awful bang, Gustavus Adolphus exploded into fragments!

I'll never learn from him. His gesture is so awful. The Olympic diving champion Tian Liang is the only person I admire.

Granny had a slight stroke last night. In some mysterious way she found out before any one else this awful news about the bank.

With a limitation like that the only phrases I can really think of are words like cheap and awful.

Not only was it numbered 42-44 (which sounds like an awful lot of death in Cantonese), it was also on the site of a landslide.

True, there are an awful lot of people ready to help you, but generally you must take the initiative and seek them out.

A disgusting man kissed me today, it was awful, and I know I would be in trouble if my mum found out.

Being apart at the airport crying is of course awful, but an easy Hello during the rest of life is really that warm?

It was my duty to leave no stone unturned to discover and expose the awful truth.

The air seemed to be full of awful changes for him and for all the gods.

Of course, there are exceptions: I've known elite cyclists who have awful diets and party late into the night and win races the next day.

As an Australian I cannot help but be touched by such an awful turn of events.

Isn't it awful? I can't bear to look at it. I don't think I can stand this place for two weeks.

Jake: You sound awful. What's the matter?

Today, I learned that "It's so good, but I'm full, " sounds like "It's no good, It's awful" to my girlfriend's easily offended mother. FML.

You can be one page one with the the most awful looking blog out there! Search engines do not care about flash and design.

Five thousand pounds of out-of-control satellite can do an awful lot of damage if it drops on the wrong spot.

"Politically and economically it was just awful, so I applied to lots of jobs that would take me abroad. "

Brave Russians who still demand that their rulers face up to the awful past may feel let down if others settle for half-truths.

If things were in an awful mess here, they would have let their journalists come, knowing that the result could only be vicious articles.

Is that you, Lili ? Sorry to call you so late, but I really feel awful about what happened tonight.

The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, may be incapable of supporting his own cause.

You turn off your computer and get an awful empty feeling, as if you lost much money.

CNN was just as awful as I remember it, so I watched Star Wars in Hungarian.

Let me level with you, your music is awful.

Or maybe the client's logo is so awful that you're unable to design something decent around it.

I feel the brilliance of every moment, the splendour of existence and it's awful.

In exams, if you work very, very hard in the evenings you are going to do an awful lot better than if you spend your evenings in the pub.

Outside of these big cities you will find people living in awful poverty, at such a level that doesn't exist in the UK.

On the evening which preceded the eventful day of trial, Jeanie was permitted to see her sister-an awful interview.

That place is awful. They keep sending him here because they can't seem to take care of him.

It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up.

Having so much that you feel guilty for owning because you don't wear it, or you don't really use it is an awful thing.

He seemed to be very awful while serving the famous actress.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Really? I remember getting really drunk and having a god awful hangover the next day.

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

The children have made an awful mess in the kitchen.

Oh ----I don't know . I don't know as she was nervous. I sometimes sew awful queer when I 'm just tired .

Listen to that awful music. It's enough to make Beethoven turn in his grave!

There were autopsies and coroners' reports and legal things and a funeral, weeks of awful surreal stuff that passes in a blur.

The newspaper will quickly compost and absorb the awful smell grass clippings give off when they're stored for a while.

Not knowing French, I did not understand the menu. Cat meat was not awful at all.

e. g. This sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Even in these accident-prone times $50 billion sounds like an awful lot for one man to lose.

As for sterling, its fundamentals look awful and have done for a while.

And we watch, speechless, as the sirens , like some awful choir, hour after hour let you know that it is not over yet, wait, there's more.

Maira: I can't understand how children as nice as you could manage to play such awful tricks on people.

I'm sorry to be so short-tempered but I HAs an awful headache.

There was an awful jacket with round mirror sequins that were just glued on.

l: oh, today's weather is awful. the wind blows so strongly and dust blows everywhere.

Sure, it was selfish, but he must want to keep his daughter awful bad to tell such a big lie.

I guess I should mention at this point that Michael is an awful driver.

Even hedge funds, supposed to make returns if markets go up or down, have had an awful time.

we got there in about a half an hour fairly dripping , for it was a most awful hot day.

Inadvertent or not, the new designation helped focus attention on just how awful the Chinese capital's air had become.

It had completely disappeared under this awful blanket of smoke and fire.

Which is to say that a realistic benchmark looks an awful lot like a real-world program.

Death was no escape from this awful responsibility, for judgement continued beyond the grave.

It was the middle of that awful famine.

After graduating from university and went back to home, I huge about for two months, how awful these days were.

If you met a young person with awful table manners, what would you think?

There are so many beautiful and painful things about it. Did you really go through all that ? Must have been awful .

I made an awful mess of my maths paper. If I pass, it will only be by the skin of my teeth.

It's an awful thing of to live in darkness, unable to see what others take for granted.

It must be awful to visit a foreign country without being able to use the language.

The awful cry rang out across the silent valley , a more frightening sound I had never heard .

Phrase of the day get angry at sb. A: I hate getting angry at my son. It makes me feel awful.

The fumes are awful ; you may actually smell that in the first row; it's very awful and the battery works only maybe for a few minutes.

Self-blame. You act as if you're awful to avoid criticism.

Mr Spufford's "pre-history of perestroika" , as he calls it, is clear in its judgment that the Soviet Union was in most ways an awful place.

Though frustration can feel awful, it is not entirely a bad thing. Because frustration shines a light on your positive passions.

No. She was a rich Californian college girl who got kidnapped by these awful left-wing political terrorists, and they made her rob banks.

god - awful smoke ! you know , just once . .

An abrupt goodbye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the awful books.