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How to use the word hellish in a Sentence?

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Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

Barry Goldwater

added by Normando
2 years ago

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

Barry Goldwater

added by Normando
3 years ago

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Our hypothesis is that Venus may have had a stable climate for billions of years. It is possible that the near-global resurfacing event is responsible for its transformation from an Earth-like climate to the hellish hothouse we see today.

Michael Way

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the case of Jefferson Davis, we must tell America the truth about the complicated man who carried with Jefferson Davis the dreams of Southern independence, jefferson Davis life was the reflection of the simplicity and perseverance of a proud people ; men and women who endured the horror of defeat and its equally hellish aftermath ; men and women who through their Christian prism understood the fall of man and the imperfection of human institutions -- that not all of man's noble experiments succeed.

Secretary Wilkie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is the most excruciating hellish several months I've ever had... but I think we're getting there.

Kimbal Musk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It was a hellish frenzy, absolutely horrible. People were just jumping into the canals to escape the inferno.

Firefighter Isamu Kase

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Raoul Vaneigem

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

Robert Burton

added by anonymous
9 years ago

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

Dale Carnegie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete.

Raoul Vaneigem

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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