I think the US is in a terrible state of denial ... Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. Kim Stanley Robinson
Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh. Geoffrey Beene
Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place. John Buford