horrendousness

horrendous | American Dictionary

horrendous
adjective
us/həˈren·dəs/
so bad as to be shocking; extremely unpleasant:
Exhibits show how horrendous the living conditions there were.

Examples of horrendous

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.
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.
Alternately, she can provide reasons to think that the putatively horrendous evil isn't really horrendous, and thus that it doesn't need to be defeated.
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