Sentence examples for To be appalling from inspiring English sources

"The conditions continued to be appalling and so we felt the matter needed to be elevated.

She found his "unwillingness to admit there was a miscommunication to be appalling".

"I find the speed with which potentially important evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling," Dr. Mowrer said.

FOAD S. MUTHANA Bronx There are parts of Worth's article on Al Qaeda in Yemen that are interesting, while others about the society are so gratuitously offensive as to be appalling.

As a doctor who cares for torture victims, I find the mounting evidence from Guantánamo that people trained in the healing professions would share their knowledge and apply their skills to help inflict pain and suffering to be appalling.

Only one story really qualifies as a fully-fledged narrative, the closing piece "Over the Mountains", in which an English film-maker visits Bulgaria in order to investigate an appalling story of cruelty in the remote countryside, which turns out to be appalling in a completely different way (or not, depending on which of the characters you choose to believe).

The big surprise about Slahi's book — the thing that almost no one could have foreseen — is that, in addition to being appalling and sad, it's funny.

Well before his depression, he could be appalling to be around.

Of course this would all be appalling to an ethical health professional.

'The conditions there would be appalling to most of us.'.

This judging of art by criteria of social utility, a pernicious commonplace in today's world (it was Stalinism's legacy to New Labour), was appalling to Auden.