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The more "terrible" the joke, he says the better.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

It’s often when you don’t show all of that, what you imagine is much more terrible.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,” James Baldwin wrote.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Each has a secret, or several secrets, some more terrible than others, and in the way of plays like this, all will be revealed before the ship docks.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

“You called me—It was my brother. It was his voice I heard. He’s dead. You called me—you called me Therem? I....This is more terrible than I had thought.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin



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