You cannot understand the awful sense of separation and loss we experienced when those Gates closed.

Then with an awful sense of having gone too far, he realizes she is crying.

I try to force this awful sense of loss down, but it comes back up, sometimes at the worst possible moment.

She didn't want to believe it, but it made an awful, terrible sense.

The terrible indecision, the awful sense of wondering what he could do about events so far from his own reach, would be gone.

Let its government, in the most literal and awful sense of the words, give them beans.

But now, again, came that awful sense of being occupied by an alien force!

For he was ridden by the awful sense of his own limitation.

He had the awful sense that the woman was not going-to be around much longer.

Still without looking up, she added with feeling, "There is an awful sense of unreality about all this."