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Tremendosity
"Tremendosity" in a Sentence (18 examples)
He talks of enlarging the stage after Easter, probably to make room for Mrs. Honey’s foot, which is remarkable for its tremendosity.
The lady librarian waxing wroth at our complimentary notice of her smithy, blew the bellows with such tremendosity, in the effervescence of her indignation, as to scatter over the neighbouring roofs, the 24 first pages of the ‘Mysteries of London,’ and Jack and the Bean-stalk.’
We arrived punctually, and as we walked down the thoroughfare, so majestically lined with eating-houses, public-houses, and a boot shop, that leads to the sea front, I was amazed at the tremendosity (I can find no other word, it is of my own manufacture, and I dedicate it to the public for ever) of the crowds that turned out to welcome us.
He looked at her for a moment. “You are prodigious,” he said, richly. “I see that you understand me,” and she paused for a moment of introspection. “It is what, in the long run, I feel to be my actuating ideal—I mean, of course, our sympathy.” The tremendosity of the implication, at all events, arrested his attention. “I,” her interlocutor was thoughtfully considering, “agree, and—there you are.” “It is what,” she paused for a moment, with a pleasant pointedness of manner, “after all, means most to me. He is of sympathy, a tremendosity, a richness, a vagueness, that quite satisfies me.”
“But that is just what does not happen in the case of Mr. James’s people. They are merged in the background so that you never can get behind them, and fairly feel and see them all round. Europe doesn’t detach them; nothing does. ‘There they are,’ as he keeps making his people say in all his late books, when they are not calling one another dear lady, and dear man, and prodigious and magnificent, and of a vagueness or a richness, or a sympathy, or an opacity. No, he is of a tremendosity, but he worries me to death; he kills me; he really gives me a headache. He fascinates me, but I have no patience with him.”
Because in the eye of a Property Society these are not human beings, but are merely pawns, like Gretchen, who exist only for the purpose of allowing a real human being like Faust to work out what is pompously called the tremendous “problems of life” that present themselves to the bourgeois mind. This overpowering sense of the “tremendosity” of human “problems” is one of the manifestations of that hypocrisy which has ever characterized the domineering class. These problems are nothing more nor less than how to keep down the subject class and make it believe itself incompetent to assume control and make itself happy. Overwhelmed by the “tremendosity” of this problem, the bourgeois mind seeks to solve it by formulas more difficult than the problem itself.
Then the Greeks were nearer akin to rustic manners of the present day. There is no indirection in their speech — I don’t know Euripides more than very slightly. I think I notice the recurrence of favorite collocations and rhythms, but don’t challenge me — along with great magic power a suggestion of formula. All said there is a lot of tremendosity in it.
They would have seen as he saw, the tremendosity, the marvel, the hugeness of the Big Bang, rolling and echoing through all England.
SOME mild grousing in the press about Britain’s Prince Philip complaining of American coffee doesn’t take into consideration the tremendosity of the problem of drinking a toast with a cup of coffee.
Yet it becomes increasingly hard to believe that Mr. Stokes has discovered any sentimental or slipshod or irrational tremendosity which warrants such squalidity of rhetoric—or such paucity of clear thinking.
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They say, ‘There’s nowt as queer as folk’. They say, ‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’. And recently, the omnipresent and ever wise ‘they’ have also been saying that the Internet is the communication medium of the future; that it will revolutionise the way we think, act, and talk; that it will replace the television, washing machine, and electric potato peeler in our homes; that it is, in short, great. Or, if you will, tremendous. Now in the opinion of this humble organ (woohoo!), one of these statements isn’t true. A bird in the hand is indeed of particular value in comparison to double the amount of bush-dwelling flying vertebrates, and folk are most certainly unchallenged in their queerness. Which therefore leaves the matter of the Internet and its questionable tremendosity.
> As anyone in education would tell you: A 20% INCREASE IN LITERACY RATES IS / > TREMENDOUS!!! / Say... would "anyone in education" care to "tell" us which countries that have achieved this 20% increase in literacy rates in the past, say, 40 years? Just, you know, so one can assign some value to the "TREMENDOSITY" and, of course, take a gander at the different costs these countries have paid to achieve this.
Err, okay... the number of times someone says the word "fuck" is a criteria in how highly you rate a film? "Dude... brahs... the movie would have been pure suckage, total craptitude... but they dropped 5,000 F-bombs, so it totally reeked of splenditude and tremendosity!".
Ah, those were the days... June '98. Sunny as anything, Keneally at the Cat-a-moron (sic) on the 12th, and Ah yes a read^([sic]) lion can! And let's not forget the almighty even of the dawning of "Ed gives a hen hoot" (it has marked history forever, yep!) Its^([sic]) hard to convey the tremendosity of the feeling permeating those days. People now consider trommel parlors as the current defining standard by which I am judged.
The functions were chiefly remarkable, not for sport, but for diluted tea and cake and a tremendosity of luscious local girl.
The speaker of the evening was the Rev. John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., former president of the Unievrsity.^([sic]) He delivered a splendid address which was entitled “Tremendosities.”
All of you, in varying degrees, are being driven from pillar to post in this world of intertwining tremendosities. Little stands secure, except for the Exclusivists, i.e., for those who can choose through the harmony of their personalities pickings from the world according to their tastes.
But the star of the weekend was OMS itself. Without going into its tremendosities, let’s just agree that it’s without doubt the world’s finest racing plant.
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