6 sentences with 'utterly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word utterly and other words derived from it.
• « Therefore, according to Augustine of Hippo, all learning was only one facet of material life; useful in its own way, but utterly insignificant in comparison with the need to bare the soul before God and await the second coming of Christ. »
• « Most Enlightenment thinkers argued that the "real" natural universe was governed by natural laws, all watched over by a benevolent but utterly remote "supreme being" - this was essentially the same as the deism that had emerged from the Scientific Revolution. »
• « The central government proved utterly incapable (and largely disinterested) in economic development, and the fruits of industrial technology came at a glacial pace throughout the country. »
• « At worst, commanders took an utterly ruthless view of their own casualties: tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths were signs of "progress" in the war effort, because they meant that the other side must also run out of soldiers. This was a war of attrition on a new level, a war that soldiers and junior officers alike recognised was designed to kill them in the name of a possible final victory. »
• « One of the main factors contributing to the loyalty of German civilians to the Nazi regime to the bitter end was the simple and pragmatic understanding that if Germany lost it would be at the mercy of the Soviet Union, a country that the German army had set out to destroy utterly. For the Soviets, of course, only fanatical resistance to German aggression could save their nation and their lives. »