Ha-Joon Chang

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

South Korean Economist

Tom Cullen

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

Welsh Actor

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Businessman

Jo Bonner

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

American Politician

Lars von Trier

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

Danish Director

Steve Young

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.

American Athlete

Carl Sagan

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

American Scientist

Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

French Author

Emil Cioran

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Romanian Philosopher

Ben Jonson

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

English Poet

Use 'enormity' to imply something is beyond normal scale.

Size Implication

'Enormity' can refer to abstract concepts, not just physical size.

Not Always Physical

The term often implies that the size or extent is overwhelming.

Overwhelming Effect

Use 'enormity' for emphasizing the moral weight of something bad or wrong.

Moral Heaviness

It's appropriate for grave situations, not minor wrongdoings.

Serious Wrongdoing

'Enormity' conveys a strong emotional response to wrongdoing.

Emotional Impact

 current circulation it's like by the time you add in the international edition it's about seven million worldwide indicating 39 local language so I mean you can't I can't even process that 7 million people conceivably glancing at your article that is beyond my range but the wide reach and the enormity of different kinds of people

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 but we do have the capacity to wonder, to question, to explore, to investigate, and to imagine. So the next time you stand gazing up at the night sky, take a moment to think about the enormity of what is beyond your vision, out in the dark spaces between the stars.

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 weigh as much as an elephant being in water makes them quite buoyant so it's the first time in their life that they can feel the weightlessness of their enormity with the Sun setting in the background the elephant herd to the

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 Now, how did these cells, all with the same genetic material, make all those tissues? And so, the question I raised before becomes even more interesting if you thought about the enormity of this in every one of your bodies.

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 the same genetic match y'all made all those tissues and so the question I raised before becomes even more interesting if you taught about the enormity of this in every one of your bodies now the dominant cancer theory

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 I thought I knew what fear was. That day, I learned what fear was. Overcome with the enormity of it all and the complete feeling of loss of control, I shed copious tears and asked my dear husband, Jayant.

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 When evolution makes something new, it uses the parts it has in stock, off the shelf, before it fabricates a new twist. And our brain has come to us through the enormity of the deep sweep of time.

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 would seem that the only solution massive sewer systems across the u.s. aging sewers are being repaired at a cost of billions of dollars each now imagine the enormity of that problem and

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 completed and just think we were there and now we're back again we always somehow could not help knowing the enormity of what we did I knew that

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 The elephant is a creature of epic proportions, and yet it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells,

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