enormity

To look at her in tears was to behold the enormity of her loss.

It was an objective test that, for the first time, let the enormity of the drug problem in America rear its ugly head.

A real-life drama proving the enormity of what just one bullet can do continued to unfold.

Even if it was a crutch, the Biblical language in these older writings did justice to the enormity of the forces at play.

And what better way to rally the troops (and they're all troops, in a pinch) than by pointing out the enormity of the enemy?

She had called the culprit to her desk just before the noon recess and now showed her the enormity of her offenses.

"Here, let go my hand," she added, suddenly conscious of the enormity John Sibley was committing by squeezing it now.

But the youth and inexperience of Riaro excused the enormity of a crime perpetrated under the sanction of the supreme pontiff.

It was marked in the circumstances and enormity of the crime, and marked in the subsequent good conduct of the prisoner.

I know that is an enormity, but I heard the Major tell of currying horses once.